Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, christmas yule log cake / buche de noel. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
The cake represents the yule log that families would burn starting on Christmas Eve. A Yule Log Cake, also known as a Bûche de Noël, is a cake made based on that old tradition. Fortunately for us, we won't burn it - we'll eat it! 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.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas yule log cake / buche de noel using 33 ingredients and 30 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel:
- Get For the vanilla sponge cake
- Take 1/2 cup Flour
- Get 1/2 cup Sugar (powdered)
- Make ready 2 tbs Milk powder
- Take 2 tbs White oil
- Make ready 1 tsp Baking powder
- Get 3 Eggs
- Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Prepare For the chocolate sponge cake
- Take 3 tbs Flour
- Take 1 and 1/2 tbs Cocoa powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Coffee powder
- Get 2 Eggs
- Take 1/3 cup Sugar (powdered)
- Prepare 1 tbs White oil
- Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- Make ready 1/2 cup whipped cream
- Make ready 1 tbs cocoa powder
- Prepare 2 tbs Chocolate syrup
- Make ready 1 tbs Water
- Make ready For chocolate ganache
- Get 1/2 cup Heavy cream
- Get 1 and 1/4 cup melted dark chocolate
- Get 1/8 cup butter
- Make ready For decoration
- Take 1 cup mixed with green colour Whipping cream
- Make ready 6/7 Meringue mushrooms (made by me)
- Get 2 Yellow coloured chocolate flowers
- Make ready 6/7 Cherries
- Make ready 1 Fondant pine / Christmas Tree (made by me)
- Get 1/4 cup Icing sugar
- Prepare as required Some nozzles and piping bags
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. Yule Log Recipe is a Christmas Roulade cake, common in French-speaking countries and it's neighbors.
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 !
Starting at one of the long sides, use the towel to tightly roll up the cake with the towel inside. Yule Log Recipe is a Christmas Roulade cake, common in French-speaking countries and it's neighbors. The Yule Log is better known as Bûche de Noël in French and both names will tell you that the cake looks like a wooden tree branch. One of my favorite cakes to make during the holiday season is this traditional buche de noel cake. This buche de noel recipe is a lovely holiday classic for the French, made during Christmas time.
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