Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, christmas yule log cake / buche de noel. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas yule log cake / buche de noel using 33 ingredients and 30 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel:
- Get For the vanilla sponge cake
- Make ready 1/2 cup Flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup Sugar (powdered)
- Make ready 2 tbs Milk powder
- Make ready 2 tbs White oil
- Take 1 tsp Baking powder
- Take 3 Eggs
- Take 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Make ready For the chocolate sponge cake
- Take 3 tbs Flour
- Prepare 1 and 1/2 tbs Cocoa powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Coffee powder
- Make ready 2 Eggs
- Take 1/3 cup Sugar (powdered)
- Make ready 1 tbs White oil
- Take 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Prepare 1/2 cup whipped cream
- Get 1 tbs cocoa powder
- Take 2 tbs Chocolate syrup
- Prepare 1 tbs Water
- Prepare For chocolate ganache
- Make ready 1/2 cup Heavy cream
- Prepare 1 and 1/4 cup melted dark chocolate
- Make ready 1/8 cup butter
- Take For decoration
- Prepare 1 cup mixed with green colour Whipping cream
- Prepare 6/7 Meringue mushrooms (made by me)
- Take 2 Yellow coloured chocolate flowers
- Get 6/7 Cherries
- Prepare 1 Fondant pine / Christmas Tree (made by me)
- Take 1/4 cup Icing sugar
- Get as required Some nozzles and piping bags
It's basically a chocolate sponge cake roll that's filled with cream and covered with chocolate ganache and made to look like a log. Literally translated, the name of this recipe means "yule log." This traditional French Christmas cake is shaped and decorated to resemble a wooden log and often garnished with meringue "mushrooms" or "moss" made from chopped pistachio nuts. It may look impressive but making a roulade or jelly roll is easy if you follow the steps. A Yule log, or French Bûche de Noël, is a traditional dessert served at Christmas, and may appear to come straight out of the forest.
Instructions to make Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel:
- For vanilla sponge cake sieve flour baking powder, milk powder altogether
- Separate egg whites and yolks and take the whites in a mixing bowl and beat with the sugar in two batches with an electric blender to make a foam
- Add yolks oil essence gradually and keep beating
- Finally add the flour mixture in three batches and mix with cut and fold method with a spatula
- Grease the baking tray and pour the mixture
- Bake at a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 mins, take out the cake and cool down on a cooling rack
- For chocolate sponge cake sieve flour cocoa powder baking powder coffee powder altogether
- Separate egg whites and yolks
- Beat the whites to make a foam
- Beat the yolks separately
- Add sugar in 3 batches to the yolks and keep beating
- Add oil and beat again
- Add flour mixture in two batches and keep beating
- Lastly add the foam in 3 batches and mix with cut and fold process with a spatula
- Grease the baking tray, spread a baking paper and pour the batter
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12 mins
- Take out flip over a cooking towel when it's hot, roll it over and keep it for 10 mins
- Mix the whipping cream with the cocoa powder
- After 10 mins spread the cream inside the cake and roll again
- Mix chocolate syrup with water and apply it over the cake and keep it in the fridge for 2 hrs
- Now it's time for the final decoration. Place the vanilla sponge on a board, cover it with green whipped cream
- Place the chocolate roll cake on the middle of it, cut two slices and place them beside as two branches
- Mix the heavy cream, melted chocolate and butter in a double boiler method and bring it down to the room temperature. ganache is ready.
- Cover the chocolate sponge with the ganache, scratch with a fork on it to give it a bark-like look
- Make some whipped cream grass with a grass nozzle and a piping bag all over the vanilla sponge
- Place some cherries on the chocolate sponge and make some whipped cream leaves with a leaf nozzle
- Make a whipped cream vine over the chocolate sponge with a fine tip nozzle
- Place yellow chocolate flowers and meringue mushrooms
- Place the fondant pine / Christmas tree
- Lastly dust some icing sugar over it to give it a snowy look. I've added a store bought Santa Clause doll to complete the charm !
Our version of the Christmas yule log cake is a bit fancier, covered in ivory-tinted frosting and decorated with roses, carnations, pine and holly. While the cake is still hot, loosen the edges from the pan, then turn out the cake onto the towel; carefully remove the parchment. Starting at one of the long sides, use the towel to tightly roll up the cake with the towel inside. How I like to make yule log cake. I like my yule log cake to be simple: a light, spongey chocolate cake, lightly sweet whipped cream filling, and coated in a dark chocolate ganache.
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