cake making

yesterday spend the whole evening baking, experimenting on chocolate cake and logcake... the first chocolate cake was done quite quickly bcos nothing went wrong, but the ganache used for the coating was not wat me expected... would prefer a more glossy finish to it, but not sure whether it is due to the hardening in the fridge that caused it to lose its gloss, bcos when the coating was applied, it was pretty shiny. perhaps should leave the cake out at room temp again to see wat happens to it. shall try it or come up with a new recipe for the ganache... actually copied a new one from a book liao, shall try it next time...
making logcake was a disaster at the beginning... firstly, the first swiss roll that was made did not turn out properly... so we decided to make another swiss roll... luckily, it turned out well this time... next was the butter cream that we planned to use for the logcake... me made a stupid mistake by adding the butter to the "hot" meringue, causing it to melt instantaneously... haiz... me really silly and stupid... should not make such mistakes again... anyway we decided to beat up some topping cream to make the swiss roll without the cream for the logcake... but it happened that there was excess cream left after making the swiss roll... so decided to make the logcake with the topping cream... so there it is... our first logcake was made....



shall try to think properly and not make stupid mistakes again while baking....