Buche de Noel

Buche de noel is one of the favorite French desserts for Christmas in France, Belgium and other French countries. Available in a variety of flavor combinations, it is a cake roll consisting of genoise sponge cake and filling. If you browse the window of patisseries during the Christmas season, you will be sure to see a beautifully decorated Bûche de Noël with holly leaves, mushrooms, and Santa Clause.

The cake can be chocolate, vanilla or even grand marnier. Butter cream or icing is used for the filling and the outside is often piped to look like the bark of a tree.

Buche de Noel Recipe

Cake

5 eggs, separated

2/3 cup sugar

3.5 tbsp unsweetened dutched cocoa powder

2 tbsp flour

Put egg whites and yolks in separate large bowls. Beat the yolks and sugar with an electric mixer. Add cocoa and flour a little at a time .

Separately beat the egg whites into soft peaks. Fold in the yolk and flour mixture a little at a time.

Pour batter into a 15 x10 inch jelly roll pan lined with wax paper and then greased and floured.

Bake for 15 minutes at 350F.

Remove cake from pan and roll up in a kitchen towel to cool.

Frosting

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar

½ cup unsweetened dutched cocoa powder

4 tbsp heavy cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

Sift together the sugar and cocoa. Cream the butter and then add the dry ingredients in the mixer on low speed. Then add in the vanilla and cream. Beat for several minutes at medium speed until the consistency is smooth and spreadable.

Assembly

Unroll cake and spread several thin layers of butter cream all over top of cake. Roll up carefully and spread butter cream on outside. Use a fork to make it look like bark.

Alternatively, you could fill the cake with whip cream and use the butter cream just for the outside.

Want to try making a few more French desserts? Try madeleines or macarons.

French Vocabulary

French desserts	Les desserts français
Cake	Le gâteau
Christmas log	Bûche de Noël
Eggs	Les oeufs
Sugar	Le sucre
Cocoa powder	La poudre de cacao
Unsalted butter	Le beurre non salé
Confectioners sugar	Le sucre confiseurs
Vanilla	La vanille
I adore chocolate cake.	J’adore le gâteau au chocolat.
Christmas eve	La veille de Noël.
Father Christmas	Le Père Noël
French pastry	La pâtisserie française

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