Bûche de Noël
Posted December 23rd, 2015 in Food No Comments »It’s that time of the year again! It’s a time to express our love to family and friends, time to reflect on the past year, a time to set new goals for the upcoming year…. I wish 2015 was a great one for you. Mine was great 🙂 Not many posting on Umeboss this year though… so it will be one of my goal for 2016 “write more posts for Umeboss”.
This month has been an event-full one for me : lots of cake-making, a family trip to a town of dolphins Bunbury, my son graduating kindergarten and family gatherings.
After making these 4 huge cakes for my son’s Japanese kindergarten’s Christmas party, I had some leftover of sponge and whipped cream in the fridge. Then I remembered when I was little I used to make this cake Bûche de Noël for Christmas.
Bûche de Noël is the French name for a Christmas cake shaped like a log, and is a traditional dessert served near Christmas, especially in France. It’s fairly easy & fun to make. I used to just buy a Swiss roll cake from a store, and cover with whipped chocolate cream. I loved the decorating part – making the pattern resembling skin of log using a folk, and place these “kinoko-no-yama” chocolate on top.
It was a fun “cooking” as a little girl, and tasted good too 🙂
You may find this chocolate “kinoko-no-yama” in Perth too, (Korean version maybe available as well) but I didn’t even want to go out to buy extra ingredients for the cake – I just wanted to make now! So here it is;
Very simple 😀
It actually should have a Holly leaves as a decoration, but I substituted with mint leaves and M&M…. Some “kinoko-no-yama” on top and side of the log would look much nicer, I think.
You used leftover sponge for this, but you can buy a Swiss roll cake from store (like I used to do) and cover with whipped chocolate cream. Place the cake in the fridge to set the cream (about 15 minutes) then draw a pattern using a folk. Then, you will have a lovely0looking Christmas cake for yourself. Please try!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! |
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