My ex-baker French Grandpa’s Bûche de Noël recipe! 🎄✨

Описание: Better late than never? 🤣

BUCKLE UP, this Yule Log Cake recipe is quite a journey! 🎄

BÛCHE DE NOËL ⬇️

STEP 1: MAKE SYRUP
150g Sugar
150g Water

Boil the water & sugar together until the sugar has completely dissolved.
Once cooled, add a splash of rum and mix.

STEP 2: MAKE CHESTNUT CREAM
1 Can of Chestnut Spread / Creme de Marron (500g)
A splash of Rum

Mix the two together.

STEP 3: MAKE GENOISE
4 Egg Yolks
100g Sugar
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4 Egg Whites
20g Sugar
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20g Vegetable Oil
120g All Purpose Flour (Sifted)
5g Baking Powder

In a bowl, whisk egg yolks & sugar until it turns white-ish and is stiff.
In another bowl, whisk egg whites & sugar til it turns into stiff peaks.
Gently fold in the egg white mix into the egg yolk mix (bit by bit). Add in the oil and fold it in gently as well. Then add in the flour and baking powder, and fold again.
Pour the batter in a well buttered wide baking tray lined with baking paper (make sure to butter below & above the baking paper). Spread out the batter evenly with a spatula. Then place it in the oven for 10min at 240*C.
Once it’s cooked, take it out of the oven and immediately take the Genoise out of the mould.

STEP 4: LAYER & REFRIGERATE
Once the genoise has cooled, brush the sugar syrup we’ve made evenly on the genoise.
Next, layer the chestnut cream mix evenly on the genoise.
Then roll the genoise, wrap it in baking paper and place it in the fridge for 24hrs.

STEP 5: MAKE CHOCOLATE GANACHE
400g Milk Chocolate (we use Callebaut 33.6% Couverture Chocolate)
500mL Cream (I use paysan breton whipping & cooking cream)

Softly boil the cream, then add it to a big bowl of the chocolate. Give it a good whisk until the chocolate is melted. Then place the bowl in the fridge. For the next 1 to 1.5hrs, you want to keep taking the bowl out of the fridge every 10min, give the chocolate a gentle whisk, place it back in the fridge for 10min and repeat until chocolate slowly becomes stiff.

STEP 6: LAYER GANACHE

Once the chocolate ganache is stiff, take the genoise out of the fridge and layer the ganache on it. Make the “log” designs and add any additional cake decor and VOILA!

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