Buche noel cake recipe: 60 photos

How to make a Yule Log | Bûche De Noël

Light and fluffy, this beautiful Yule Log, or ​​Buche de Noel, is a lovely traditional Christmas sponge cake styled to resemble a...

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Bûche de Noël is the French name for a Christmas cake shaped like a log. This one is a heavenly flourless chocolate cake rolled with chocolate whipped cream and decorated with confectioners' sugar to resemble snow on a yule log. It doesn't just look beautiful — it tastes wonderful, too!
Is this the same as a swiss roll? The main difference between the two cakes is the way the cakes are decorated. The Yule log cake, or buche de noel, is made to look like the logs burned on Christmas eve, whereas the exterior of a swiss roll is decorated much more simply, such as with whipped cream and fresh fruit.
Rolling the cake (without cracking!). But alas, that's what I had to do: The secret to making a roll cake that doesn't crack is to roll it up, unfilled, while it's still warm from the oven and at its most pliable. Then let it cool, unroll and fill, and roll right back up.
It is thought that the Bûche de Noël comes from an ancient Celtic tradition of finding a large tree log and burning it on the shortest day of the year, in celebration of the Winter Solstice. In medieval France a Christmas feudal tax required peasants to bring a large log of wood to the manor house of the feudal lord.
“Buche” is the Spanish word for the stomach of a pig. Buche is typically less chewy than tripas (beef tripe) but has more bite than carnitas (pork shoulder) or barbacoa (slow-cooked beef, pork, or lamb) after stewing for several hours.
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