Gateaux & tortes

Problems, problems. Nothing went right today. I'm not even going to post the picture of the torte we made. The individual gateaux look ok (not great), but they were still very disappointing, for a number of reasons: (1) The joconde sponge cake layer was too thick, (2) the white chocolate bavarian was very eggy-tasting, and (3) the strawberry mirror glaze, instead of being a super-thin, shiny glaze, was too thick and too gelatinous.

But the picture looks pretty good.