Bakertan's Christmas Goodies 1 - Two Cookies and a Log Cake
Whew,
last weekend was a tiring one! For the entire saturday afternoon, I was
busy shopping for ingredients at Phoon Huat, Cold Storage and Ntuc. The
ingredients I lugged back home weighed almost close to 7kg - flour,
butter, cream cheese, mascarpone cheese, whipping cream etc... Luckily I
brought my backpack along.
After taking
a short rest, I went to battle armed with my oven, mixer and my arsenal
of firepower - flour, nuts, peanut butter, raisins, cornflakes and
chocolate chips. The entire battle lasted 7 hours in total before a
truce was called. The battle trophies? 90 chunky peanut, chocolate chip and cinnamon cookies and 60 cornflakes raisins chocolate chip cookies. I have never made this much cookies in a single day in my life! Imagine having to shape all these cookies. Very tedious!
The
battle continued on sunday and the battle trophy this time round was a
chocolate log cake. I didn't do a good job with the rolling of the swiss
roll and it cracked horribly after rolling. Nevertheless, I took it as a
log cake practice and slathered chocolate buttercream over the cracked
swiss roll. It covered up really well and I was rather pleased with my
first log cake.
All
the above bakes were meant for my first christmas gathering on sunday
evening. It may sound a bit early, but we had no choice since most of us
won't be around when it draws close to Christmas. Apart from serving
its cause as an aftermeal dessert, the log cake also doubled up as a
birthday cake (in advance) for one of my friends. Happy Birthday Queen!
After
cutting the cake, the interior didn't look like it was badly cracked. I
remember one blogger mentioning that log cakes are very forgiving. They
are indeed!
I would like to take this opportunity to dedicate this log cake to my blogger friends Eelin and Sheryl since they are dec babies too. Happy Birthday ladies!
Unlike
the same Christmas gathering from previous years, there is quite a bit
of sweets and baked goodies going around this time. They are:
- peppermint candy canes
- chocolate almonds (made with valrhona, good stuff!)
- chocolate cream cheese brownies (my friend made it from my cookie book. I'm going to make this one day.)
- chunky peanut, chocolate chip and cinnamon cookies and cornflakes raisins chocolate chip cookies which I prepared.
- Christmas tree butter cookie
Christmas
sure is a good chance and the perfect excuse to bake. I can
already forsee that I will be making christmas goodies for at least 3
other occasions. Its going to be a bakeful month and more cookies, log
cakes and perhaps brownies. I think I will probably do 6-8 different
types of cookies for this festive season.
The recipes for the two cookies and log cake will be featured in upcoming posts. Stay tuned...
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