Chocolate yule log recipe
This traditional chocolate yule log recipe, or Bûche de Noël, makes a deliciously indulgent Christmas dessert. The rich, chocolate sponge is rolled with a whipped Irish cream filling and covered in a boozy chocolate icing. The Swiss roll-style cake is then finished with crumbled chocolate 'bark' for a true log effect. Find out how to make yule log with our step-by-step recipe.
See method- Serves 10-12
- 45 mins to prepare and 10 mins to cook
- 258 calories / serving
Ingredients
For the cake
- 3 eggs
- 100g golden caster sugar
- 60g self-raising flour
- 55g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp caster sugar
For the filling
- 300ml double cream
- 50ml Irish Cream
For the icing
- 75g butter, cut into cubes
- 60g dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- 400g icing sugar, sifted
- 100ml Irish Cream
- 1 Cadbury’s Flake, roughly chopped into long strips
- 1 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 1075kJ 258.0kcal
- Fat
- 18g
- Saturates
- 11g
- Salt
- 0.2g
- Sugars
- 14g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 18.8gProtein 3.7gFibre 1.7g
Method
- Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C. Grease and line a 23cm x 33cm swiss roll tin with nonstick baking paper.
- Meanwhile, put the eggs and sugar in a large bowl and using an electric hand whisk, combine until light and frothy. Sift in the flour and 45g of the cocoa powder and whisk again until smooth.
- Pour the mixture into the tin and tip to make sure it reaches each corner. Bake for 10-12 minutes until springy to the touch.
- Lay a piece of baking paper slightly larger than the tin on the work surface and sprinkle with the remaining sifted cocoa powder and caster sugar. When the sponge is cooked, loosen the edges and then tip out onto the baking paper. Remove the baking paper and then gently, using the paper underneath, roll up from the longest edge into a roll. Leave to cool. This will prevent the roll from cracking later.
- To make the filling, whisk together the double cream and Irish cream until soft peaks form. Chill in the fridge until required.
- To make the icing, put the butter and chocolate in a bowl and melt together in the microwave. Stir in the icing sugar and Irish cream until smooth. It will harden and thicken as it cools.
- When the sponge is cool, gently unroll and spread over the Irish cream before re-rolling the log. Then spread the icing over the top, sprinkle over the chopped pieces of flake, and finally the icing sugar. Cut into horizontal slices to serve.
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