The only "snow" to be found falling in Gold Coast in the middle of summer, is the 'mock' one of icing sugar --flicked all over the attempted christmas yule log cake I made today. It is a traditional French Xmas musthave but most western cultures, including Asians, have adapted it to be part of the Christmassy thing to have.
Baking has always been my way to destress, to prove to myself that things that look hard or impossible can still be achieved. Never done a log cake before, and decided to get adventurous today, using the famous Aussie chef Nigella's recipe.
Yes, ambitious me had to aim for the best, and ignoramus me actually thought that the grand dame of Aussie cuisine had been careless and left out flour in her recipe!!
Actually, this was a flourless log cake and I actually couldn't believe I had launched onto this project not noticing that flour wasn't in the recipe, otherwise I wouldn't have tried it, because I always prefer my cakes, fluffy, doughy, and cake-y- nothing of that flourless version..(sorry Nigella. Who cares about carb anyway, I mean it's Christmas...
Anyway, too late, had to proceed, as the stage had been set. So, with bated breath, I rolled up the cakes and was relieved they did not totally fall apart. Cakes did not rise very nicely, maybe, I opened the oven too often to check, I don't know. Am clueless about how flourless cakes should look like or taste, so I expect whatever I rolled out at the end would have to do. It didn't taste too bad, and the icing was lovely.
Jordie wanted to do the sprinkling of snow, and that helped quite a bit to cover the 'flaws' and I had these recycled christmas tress and miniature santas from days gone by lifted off a previous xmas cake. We had fun putting little weetbix squares as part of the scenery to pass off as rocks.Jordie said the xmas trees did not look real but the log did, but who cares? It's all in the name of breaking barriers of reality. Anyway, santas don't exist, so what are they doing on a log cake, huh?
Merry Xmas, and try not to be make sense about everything. You will find life more interesting and happier that way...and now, we shall look forward to eating up this log on Christmas day..
