Bûche De Noël (Yule Log)
Recipe: #19623
June 18, 2015
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Fancy/Entertaining, Eggs, North American, Christmas, Entertaining, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Make it from scratch, Flour, Kosher Dairy more
"The Yule Log is the traditional dessert served at Christmas dinner. It's a tradition which early settlers kept from their homeland France. From Traditional Quebec Cooking by Micheline-Mongrain-Dontigny."
Original recipe yields 7 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (102.2 g)
- Calories 260.6
- Total Fat - 4.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.3 g
- Cholesterol - 138.9 mg
- Sodium - 242 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 50.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.2 g
- Sugars - 33.6 g
- Protein - 7.3 g
- Calcium - 113.1 mg
- Iron - 1.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Grease and cover bottom of a 10 x 15 inch jelly roll pan with wax paper. Beat eggs until frothy and pale lemon in color. Add sugar and water and beat until batter becomes white.
Step 2
Sift dry ingredients and gently add them to the batter with a spatula. Add vanilla and almond extract and pour batter into pan.
Step 3
Bake in the middle of oven at 400F for 15 minutes.
Step 4
Remove cake from mold while it is still warm, and place on a piece of wax paper sprinkled with white or icing sugar. Roll the cake and let cool on a wire rack.
Step 5
Unroll and fill with jam or buttercream. Roll the cake again and cut a 2 inch slice from one end. Diagonally cut this slice in two and attach these two parts, with a dab of icing, to the side of the jelly roll. By doing so, the jelly roll should have the shape of a log with two knots on the top of it.
Step 6
Cream both ends and top of knots with white icing. Cream the rest of the log with chocolate icing. Run a fork lengthwise through the icing. This will give the log the appearance of true wood.
Step 7
For the knots, and the ends of the log, use the fork again, but this time in a circular motion.
Step 8
If desired, decorate the Yule Log with green leaves made of almond paste and red cherry or small red cinnamon candies.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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