It’s December tomorrow, folks. I’m officially Christmassing up.
I’m making a Yule log for the first time this year. And by that, I mean Phil is making a Yule Log and I’m going to decorate it because I can’t be trusted to do complicated baking without turning the kitchen into an apocolyptic-icing-sugar-wasteland. I am good at prettifying though. I’m allowed to do that bit. Top to bottom these bad boys are Mary Berry’s, the Guardian’s and Nigella’s recipes – do you use any of these? Do you use a different one? Have you any tips – do I *really* need that tool from Hobbycraft that makes buttercream look like tree bark or can I do it with a fork?
(Sorrynotsorry if you want cake for breakfast now.)
9 Comments
Yep, want cake for breakfast now. Specifically, chocolate cake shaped like a log…. Drool. I have never made a Yule log but I have decorated my mum’s creations. Top tips: a fork is perfect…. And if you eat all of the chocolate icing you might feel a bit sick.
I’ve made the Nigella one for the last four years & it’s fabulous & delicious. From the notes in my recipe book you need more than one Swiss roll tin I use a roasting tin/tray as my second which makes the advantage of being longer so I use that as my long branch. For mynoven, not a good one, I bake it for a little over 20, definitely not under but that ‘s my oven. I also have made the sponge, rolled it up & kept it rolled overnight in a tin to then put together the next day.
If in doubt ask Phil to make all three & test which you prefer?
I second Rachel’s idea of making all three! My stomach physically hurts from hunger, I need cake!! Xxx
I used to make them every year but I hadn’t for a while until I made one last year, it ended up being 80% icing. I just used a basic chocolate Swiss roll recipe and chopped a bit off the end to make a branch, and then iced the living hell out of it. It was great. Also a fork is totally the ideal bark implement.
Oh and I made the world’s fattest robin out of coloured fondant icing, because, why not
KL xx
I have just looked at a photo of mine compared to the above images. Mine is less…. classy.
KL x
The Mary Berry one looks immense. Why oh why did I start a diet a month before Christmas? *sobs*
I want all these. But just to add something else, I’ve tasted Delia’s and it is AMAZE.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/sweet/buche-de-noel-chocolate-chestnut-log.html
Erm, I buy mine from M&S! I once had a catastrophic disaster making a swiss roll type of cake which has left me irrevocably scarred.
Ooh yum. Hope we get to see your joint effort results! I make a Xmassy peppermint cheesecake in the shape of a sort of yule log, does that count ??? (Its good for hot weather Xmas pud.)
I could dive into that second one, right now.