Recipe: Perfect Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel

Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel.

You can have Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel using 33 ingredients and 30 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel

1. Prepare of For the vanilla sponge cake.
2. You need 1/2 cup of Flour.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of Sugar (powdered).
4. Prepare 2 tbs of Milk powder.
5. It's 2 tbs of White oil.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of Baking powder.
7. You need 3 of Eggs.
8. It's 1 tsp of Vanilla essence.
9. You need of For the chocolate sponge cake.
10. Prepare 3 tbs of Flour.
11. Prepare 1 and 1/2 tbs of Cocoa powder.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of Baking powder.
13. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Coffee powder.
14. You need 2 of Eggs.
15. Prepare 1/3 cup of Sugar (powdered).
16. You need 1 tbs of White oil.
17. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla essence.
18. It's 1/2 cup of whipped cream.
19. Prepare 1 tbs of cocoa powder.
20. It's 2 tbs of Chocolate syrup.
21. You need 1 tbs of Water.
22. You need of For chocolate ganache.
23. It's 1/2 cup of Heavy cream.
24. Prepare 1 and 1/4 cup of melted dark chocolate.
25. It's 1/8 cup of butter.
26. You need of For decoration.
27. You need 1 cup mixed with green colour of Whipping cream.
28. You need 6/7 of Meringue mushrooms (made by me).
29. Prepare 2 of Yellow coloured chocolate flowers.
30. It's 6/7 of Cherries.
31. Prepare 1 of Fondant pine / Christmas Tree (made by me).
32. It's 1/4 cup of Icing sugar.
33. You need as required of Some nozzles and piping bags.

Christmas Yule Log Cake / Buche De Noel step by step

1. For vanilla sponge cake sieve flour baking powder, milk powder altogether.
2. Separate egg whites and yolks and take the whites in a mixing bowl and beat with the sugar in two batches with an electric blender to make a foam.
3. Add yolks oil essence gradually and keep beating.
4. Finally add the flour mixture in three batches and mix with cut and fold method with a spatula.
5. Grease the baking tray and pour the mixture.
6. Bake at a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 mins, take out the cake and cool down on a cooling rack.
7. For chocolate sponge cake sieve flour cocoa powder baking powder coffee powder altogether.
8. Separate egg whites and yolks.
9. Beat the whites to make a foam.
10. Beat the yolks separately.
11. Add sugar in 3 batches to the yolks and keep beating.
12. Add oil and beat again.
13. Add flour mixture in two batches and keep beating.
14. Lastly add the foam in 3 batches and mix with cut and fold process with a spatula.
15. Grease the baking tray, spread a baking paper and pour the batter.
16. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12 mins.
17. Take out flip over a cooking towel when it's hot, roll it over and keep it for 10 mins.
18. Mix the whipping cream with the cocoa powder.
19. After 10 mins spread the cream inside the cake and roll again.
20. Mix chocolate syrup with water and apply it over the cake and keep it in the fridge for 2 hrs.
21. Now it's time for the final decoration. Place the vanilla sponge on a board, cover it with green whipped cream.
22. Place the chocolate roll cake on the middle of it, cut two slices and place them beside as two branches.
23. Mix the heavy cream, melted chocolate and butter in a double boiler method and bring it down to the room temperature. ganache is ready..
24. Cover the chocolate sponge with the ganache, scratch with a fork on it to give it a bark-like look.
25. Make some whipped cream grass with a grass nozzle and a piping bag all over the vanilla sponge.
26. Place some cherries on the chocolate sponge and make some whipped cream leaves with a leaf nozzle.
27. Make a whipped cream vine over the chocolate sponge with a fine tip nozzle.
28. Place yellow chocolate flowers and meringue mushrooms.
29. Place the fondant pine / Christmas tree.
30. Lastly dust some icing sugar over it to give it a snowy look. I've added a store bought Santa Clause doll to complete the charm !.