Learnt from the professionals at Baking Industry Training Centre (BITC), who are supposed to be related to Prima Deli in some sense, I think. Anyway baked a chocolate truffle cake and it didn't turn out too badly! Had lots of fun in fact with my friends working together. We helped to weigh and mix in our ingredients together in a big container before dividing it into 4 different moulds for baking. Was quite a huge mess actually with all the movement around the kitchen and the occasional (actually quite frequent) jokes made. When my sponge was done we had to cut it up to 3 layers, but mine splitted when I was flipping the cake around so it was quite unsightly! But I covered my mess with the chocolate truffle cream filling so you can't really tell, unless you really look closely at at its side after you cut it!
In any case I made up for my mistake with an extra smooth top cream layer. So proud of myself 'cause got praised by a couple of aunties at the neighbouring tables. Haha! But I admit I got help from the shi-fu 'cause had we continued with our cooled and settled cream I'll probably have lost my patience to give it a good finishing. Typical impatient me.
Then came the best part. Decorating the cake. After dusting the cake with cocoa powder, I added chocolate pieces to the side for deco. Partially to cover my unsightly lobangs, even though a layer of cream was put around it. And you thought I was so artistic. Haha. Strawberry, chocolate rice and a little snow powder did the finishing touch and wah-la it's all done! Took a couple of pictures of my cake on my phone, the rest are still with my colleague who sacrificed the lesson to take photos of us having fun. I'll get them and post it soon! In the meantime be wow-ed by my talent! First time leh!
No comments:
Post a Comment