This recipe provides instructions for making a chocolate Yule log, a festive dessert shaped like a log. It calls for a cocoa sponge cake that is baked in a thin sheet and then rolled up with a chocolate buttercream filling. The log is then iced with a chocolate buttercream icing and textured with a fork to resemble bark.
This recipe provides instructions for making a chocolate Yule log, a festive dessert shaped like a log. It calls for a cocoa sponge cake that is baked in a thin sheet and then rolled up with a chocolate buttercream filling. The log is then iced with a chocolate buttercream icing and textured with a fork to resemble bark.
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This recipe provides instructions for making a chocolate Yule log, a festive dessert shaped like a log. It calls for a cocoa sponge cake that is baked in a thin sheet and then rolled up with a chocolate buttercream filling. The log is then iced with a chocolate buttercream icing and textured with a fork to resemble bark.
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Sponge 50g unsalted butter 100g unsalted butter 3 eggs 75g icing sugar 100g icing sugar 75g castor sugar 15g cocoa powder 100g melted chocolate 25g grated chocolate 25g cocoa 50g plain white flour Method Beat eggs until light and fluffy. Beat in sugar. Fold in cocoa and flour. Pour into a greaseproof lined 20 x 30cms (8" x 12") baking tray. Bake for 10 minutes at 200°C (400 F, Mk 6). Turn out hot cake on to a clean tea towel. Remove greaseproof and roll up sponge in the cloth. Mix all filling ingredients together. Gently unroll cold sponge, cover with filling and roll up again. Cream together butter and icing sugar, beat in melted chocolate. Cover sponge with icing and create texture using a fork.