Aspiring Bakers #2: Chocolate Logcake

It's time to do some baking for Christmas! I realised that I've been very lagging this year. Last year, I was enthusiastic in baking my X'mas presents. However, this year, I have no such plans. I made a chocolate logcake earlier this week as requested by my son. I'll be submitting this to the Aspiring Bakers #2, which I am also the host!!

I used the cake base from Bakertan's recipe. The frosting was made using a combination of butter and cream cheese. Then frost the cake with chocolate ganache. Here is my chocolate logcake.

Recipe for Chocolate Logcake.

Ingredients:

Sponge Cake (10" x 10" square pan)
3 Eggs, room temperature
54g Caster sugar
57g Plain flour
12g Cocoa powder
42g Unsalted butter, melted

Method:
1. Sift plain flour and cocoa powder together.
2. In a mixing bowl, beat eggs and caster sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy. Then turn to low speed and beat for 2 mins to stablise the bubbles.
3. Fold in the sifted flour and cocoa powder in 3 batches. (I used the whisk to fold in low speed. Then use spatula to do the final folds).
4. Scoop some batter from the mixture and add into the melted butter. Mix well.
5. Pour back the melted butter mixture into the egg batter and mix well. Do not overmix.
6. Pour into the lined 10"x10" pan and bake in the preheated oven at 190C for 8 mins.
7. Leave it in the pan to cool completely before frosting.

Cream Cheese frosting
110g Cream cheese
70g Unsalted butter, soften at room temperature
40g Icing sugar

Method:
1. Add all into the mixer and beat well to incorporate. (It's done when it's creamy and spikes showing)

Chocolate Ganache
150g Semi-sweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces
100g Whipping cream

Method:
1. In a small saucepan, heat up the whipping cream. When it starts to bubble at the sides, turn it off and pour into the chocolates.
2. Stir and mix until it's smooth.

Assembly:
1. Spread the cream cheese frosting evenly on the sponge cake.
2. Roll it up.
3. Pour the chocolate ganache all over, even it out.
4. Use a fork to create the log effect. Then decorate with X'mas props accordingly.

Here's wishing everyone, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!