Bûche de Noël (Chocolate Christmas Yule Log Cake)
This tree stump-shaped Christmas cake is filled with chocolate buttercream, decorated with bark-like frosting on the exterior, and accented with meringue mushrooms.
Ingredients
Swiss roll sponge cake (plain or chocolate flavor, see page 350)
1
Chocolate buttercream (see page 368)
to taste
Vanilla buttercream (see page 369)
to taste
Meringue mushrooms (see page 296)
to taste
Instructions
1
Filling
Spread chocolate buttercream on the sponge cake and roll it up.
2
Decorating the ends
Spread white buttercream on both ends of the cake, then pipe spiral chocolate buttercream swirls with a parchment cone to mimic tree rings.
3
Decorating the surface
Pipe chocolate buttercream on the surface with a flat star tip, or smooth it out and scrape bark texture with a comb.
4
Garnishing
Decorate with meringue mushrooms.
