Chocolate Yule Log

I’ve opened the first two doors on my advent calendar, had the first Christmas meal and even written a few cards so it’s about time I share a Christmas recipe with you. Chocolate yule logs always remind me of tea time on Christmas day. You know, when you’ve already eaten your breakfast, lots of turkey with all the trimmings for lunch, scoffed some Christmas pudding and had a few sneaky chocolates. You think you couldn’t possibly eat any more without bursting. And then they bring out the sausage rolls, turkey sandwiches and mince pies and oh yes I’ll have a nice bit of Chocolate yule log with cream because I haven’t eaten enough chocolate and cake today.

This chocolate Yule log recipe is adapted from a recipe on the Cadbury website. I have made some tweaks to it to make it more to my taste and make it easier and more simple to make.

You can make it even more Christmassy by making some holly out of fondant (or using a plastic decoration if it food safe plastic) and putting it on top. I always finish off the Yule log with a generous sprinkling of icing sugar (aka snow) and serve it with pouring cream.

Chocolate Yule Log
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Chocolate Yule Log

Difficulty: Medium
Servings

4

servings
Prep time

30

minutes
Cooking time

10

minutes
Total time

40

minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 Eggs

  • 75g Caster Sugar plus extra for dusting

  • 75g Plain Flour

  • 75g Cocoa Powder

  • 100g Unsalted Butter

  • 100g Icing Sugar

  • 75g Milk Chocolate

Directions

  • Preheat the oven to 200ºc and grease and line a swiss roll tin. Using a mixer (hand or stand) whisk the eggs and sugar together until thick and creamy and leaves a trail.
  • Sieve in the flour and cocoa powder and fold in carefully with 1tbsp hot water. There’s not raising agent so try not to deflate the eggs! Pour into the swiss roll tin and spread the mixture right to the edges and corners. Bake for 10 – 12 minutes until springy.
  • Sprinkle caster sugar over a large piece of baking parchment and turn the hot cake out onto it. Trim the edges and make a dent alone the width and roll the cake up with the paper. 
  •  To make the icing first melt the chocolate in the microwave. Mix the butter and icing sugar together and when smooth add the melted chocolate.
  • When the cake is cool, unroll it and spread 1/3 of the icing over it. Roll it up again and cut a small portion off at a diagonal and place to one side to form a branch. Cover the whole cake with the remaining icing and use a fork to create a tree bark effect.

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