Bûche de Noël

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Bûche de Noël is the French name for a Christmas cake shaped like a log. This recipe makes a heavenly flourless chocolate cake rolled with chocolate whipped cream and decorated with confectioners' sugar to resemble snow on a yule log. It doesn't just look beautiful — it tastes wonderful, too!

Prep
22 min
Cook
79 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a 10x15-inch jellyroll pan with parchment paper. Whip cream, 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup cocoa, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in a large bowl until thick and stiff. Refrigerate.
  2. 2 Use an electric mixer to beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar in a large bowl, until pale in color, light, and frothy. Blend in 1/3 cup cocoa, 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla, and salt.
  3. 3 Using clean beaters, whip egg whites in a large glass bowl until they form soft peaks. Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, and beat until whites form stiff peaks.
  4. 4 Immediately fold yolk mixture into whipped egg whites.
  5. 5 Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
  6. 6 Bake in the preheated oven until cake springs back when lightly touched, about 10 to 12 minutes.
  7. 7 Dust a clean dishtowel with confectioners' sugar. Run a knife around the edge of the pan, and turn the warm cake out onto the towel. Remove and discard parchment paper.
  8. 8 Starting at the short edge of the cake, roll the cake up with the towel. Cool for 30 minutes.
  9. 9 Unroll cake, and spread filling to within 1 inch of the edge.
  10. 10 Roll cake up with filling inside. Place seam-side down onto a serving plate, and refrigerate until serving.
  11. 11 Enjoy!

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