#Buch de Noel

[micheltaanman-blog]

Frankrijk . Oud en nieuw vieren op z'n Frans

[daily-deliciousness]

Vertical chocolate bûche de noël (yule log)

[miscellaneousmao]

Nothing like a yule log cake to attract some mushroom Pokémon! 🪵🍄

So happy I can finally check this idea off my list too, even if it got a bit messy, it was fun!

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[jeanfrancoisrey]

Bûche maison parfum calisson de Provence…

[sikfankitchen]

Buche de Noel (Christmas Yule Log Cake) with Chocolate Spongecake, Raspberry Compote, and Almond Cream! 🪵🍰

[anna-hawk]

"Bûches de Noël" peanut and chocolate, and apple vanilla (façon tarte tatin)

[scarlettgauthor]

Happy New Year! I Buched a Noel!

So as someone who loves elaborate baking projects, I've always kinda wanted to bake a Buche de Noel, but I unfortunately never had the opportunity or occasion. It's just me, my wife, and our cats, and the cats can't help with eating a giant cake. (For their own health. They would love to help eat a cake if I let them.)

This year I decided that if I didn't have an occasion, I would make an occasion, so I invited some friends to my house yesterday for a "Please Help Me Eat This Buche De Noel" Party.

Y'all... I fucking delivered.

This incredible cake consists of a vanilla sponge with a vanilla buttercream frosting, brushed with maple syrup and filled with a maple custard whipped cream, decorated with maple meringues, maple sugar crystalized moss, sugared rosemary, and sugared cranberries. It tasted absolutely as good as it looked!

I'd never done a proper sponge (meringue folded into cake batter) before, and not everything was a total success (I tried to make maple spun sugar to use as the moss decoration, but I'd never done it before and something clearly went wrong, because it seized and crystallized, so I just used the tinted maple sugar as the moss which also looked great!), but I learned a lot in the process and I'm so, so happy with the outcome.

A portrait of the baker with her creation.

It was also a delight to get to share such an incredible baking success with friends on the last day of 2023. The energy was wonderful, and I'm going to try and take that feeling forward into the new year.

May your 2024 be full of friends, laughter, and elaborate, delicious creations!

[argyleheir]

Yule log came out quite nicely!

[leche-flandom]

This year's bûche is messy as hell because I'm tired but at least it's done.

[ababblesaurus]

Hope you all get some chances to relax in the holiday bustle!

I've been helping my mom bake, it's been fun trying out new recipes. 🎶

[amirmo7]

[pinkfairiesteaparty]

[punkbakerchristine]

-for starters, the roulade pan we have onhand was cheap so it warps easily; i knew right away it was not going to bake evenly. the batter was thin, like really thin, almost like pancake batter, so i thought, “there is no way in hell on earth this is going to bake.” somehow, by some dark magic, it did. i coiled it up and let it cool down that way.

-a bunch of the cream oozed out when i coiled it up.

-because it gets so cold in the kitchen, the moment i stopped the mixer, the frosting stiffened up, so i tucked it into the oven to keep it warm and pipeable.

-i have only used the big piping bag all of thrice in my life so i’m still getting used to putting the tip on—naturally, it came off from my own nonsense as well as the cold of the kitchen making the frosting harden almost immediately, so i improvised the piping with the raw tip and then used the tines of a fork to make it look like tree bark.

in the words of michael scott, somehow i manage. a bûche de noël with irish cream filling!

[sikfankitchen]

Buche de Noel (Yule Log Cake) 🎄🪵

[otpin-arts]

Day 2: Bûche de Noël