Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas yule log cake / buche de noel. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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.

Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular 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 cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel:

1. Make ready For the vanilla sponge cake
2. Take 1/2 cup Flour
3. Get 1/2 cup Sugar (powdered)
4. Get 2 tbs Milk powder
5. Make ready 2 tbs White oil
6. Make ready 1 tsp Baking powder
7. Get 3 Eggs
8. Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla essence
9. Get For the chocolate sponge cake
10. Make ready 3 tbs Flour
11. Get 1 and 1/2 tbs Cocoa powder
12. Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking powder
13. Take 1/2 tsp Coffee powder
14. Make ready 2 Eggs
15. Take 1/3 cup Sugar (powdered)
16. Make ready 1 tbs White oil
17. Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla essence
18. Make ready 1/2 cup whipped cream
19. Prepare 1 tbs cocoa powder
20. Make ready 2 tbs Chocolate syrup
21. Make ready 1 tbs Water
22. Take For chocolate ganache
23. Prepare 1/2 cup Heavy cream
24. Make ready 1 and 1/4 cup melted dark chocolate
25. Get 1/8 cup butter
26. Prepare For decoration
27. Make ready 1 cup mixed with green colour Whipping cream
28. Take 6/7 Meringue mushrooms (made by me)
29. Get 2 Yellow coloured chocolate flowers
30. Prepare 6/7 Cherries
31. Get 1 Fondant pine / Christmas Tree (made by me)
32. Make ready 1/4 cup Icing sugar
33. Prepare as required Some nozzles and piping bags

One of the traditional dishes for Christmas is the Bûche de Noël cake, which translates literally into a Christmas wood log given that the cake is made and decorated to look like a wood log. In English, it is commonly called Yule log or Chocolate log. The recipe for it is sometimes intimidating because it looks like a hard cake to make. A Yule log (or bûche de Noël French pronunciation: [byʃ də nɔɛl]) is a traditional dessert served near Christmas, especially in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Canada, Lebanon, Syria, and several former French colonies such as Vietnam, as well as the United Kingdom and Spain.

Steps to make Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel:

1. For vanilla sponge cake sieve flour baking powder, milk powder altogether
2. 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
3. Add yolks oil essence gradually and keep beating
4. Finally add the flour mixture in three batches and mix with cut and fold method with a spatula
5. Grease the baking tray and pour the mixture
6. Bake at a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 mins, take out the cake and cool down on a cooling rack
7. For chocolate sponge cake sieve flour cocoa powder baking powder coffee powder altogether
8. Separate egg whites and yolks
9. Beat the whites to make a foam
10. Beat the yolks separately
11. Add sugar in 3 batches to the yolks and keep beating
12. Add oil and beat again
13. Add flour mixture in two batches and keep beating
14. Lastly add the foam in 3 batches and mix with cut and fold process with a spatula
15. Grease the baking tray, spread a baking paper and pour the batter
16. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12 mins
17. Take out flip over a cooking towel when it's hot, roll it over and keep it for 10 mins
18. Mix the whipping cream with the cocoa powder
19. After 10 mins spread the cream inside the cake and roll again
20. Mix chocolate syrup with water and apply it over the cake and keep it in the fridge for 2 hrs
21. Now it's time for the final decoration. Place the vanilla sponge on a board, cover it with green whipped cream
22. Place the chocolate roll cake on the middle of it, cut two slices and place them beside as two branches
23. Mix the heavy cream, melted chocolate and butter in a double boiler method and bring it down to the room temperature. ganache is ready.
24. Cover the chocolate sponge with the ganache, scratch with a fork on it to give it a bark-like look
25. Make some whipped cream grass with a grass nozzle and a piping bag all over the vanilla sponge
26. Place some cherries on the chocolate sponge and make some whipped cream leaves with a leaf nozzle
27. Make a whipped cream vine over the chocolate sponge with a fine tip nozzle
28. Place yellow chocolate flowers and meringue mushrooms
29. Place the fondant pine / Christmas tree
30. 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 !

Made of sponge cake to resemble a miniature actual Yule log, it is a form of sweet roulade. Whisk the egg whites in a bowl (or free-standing mixer) until soft peaks form when the whisk is removed. The Yule log cake (or bûche de Noël for French speakers) is an elaborate creation consisting of a rolled, filled sponge cake, frosted with chocolate buttercream to look like tree bark and festooned. Whisk the caster sugar and yolks in a bowl until pale and thick. A yule log cake, or Buche de Noel as it's called in France, is a traditional French dessert that's made around Christmas time.

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