Buche De Noel - French Dessert For Christmas Recipe at MyDish

Buche De Noel - French Dessert For Christmas

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Method

  • Preheat oven to 190C

  • Line a jelly roll pan with cooking paper.

  • In a big bowlput: whip cream with confectioners' sugar, cocoa, vanilla until thick and stiff.

  • Refrigerate.

  • In a big bowl: beat egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar until thick and pale.
  • Blend in 1/3 cup cocoa, vanilla, and salt.

  • In a big bowl bowl: whip egg whites to soft peaks, add 1/4 cup sugar, and beat.
  • Immediately fold the yolk mixture into the whites.

  • Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

  • 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 the paper

  • Starting at the short edge of the cake, roll the cake up with the towel. Cool for 30 minutes.

  • Unroll the cake, and spread the filling to within 1 inch of the edge. Roll the cake up with the filling inside. Place into a serving plate. Refrigerate.


  • Add some Christmas decorations on it before serving (see the picture)

    • Comments Add your comment

    • I'd love to try this so can't give a rating yet, but what is the filling? Is it just whipped double cream?

      by Alexandra on Tue Dec 22 2009   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups heavy cream
    • ½ cup confectioners' sugar
    • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 6 egg yolks
    • 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    • 1 pinch salt
    • 6 egg whites
    • ½ cup + ¼ cup white sugar

    By Views 4807  Added Wed Oct 29 2008


    This is the dessert French people use to eat for Christmas. The tradition: It represents a log of wood. People used to cook it to bless fire during this very cold period.

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