Yule log
Yule log

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, yule log. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

The Yule log, Yule clog, or Christmas block is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth as a Christmas tradition in regions of Europe, particularly the United Kingdom, and subsequently the Americas. The origin of the folk custom is unclear. Like other traditions associated with Yule (such as the Yule boar), the custom may ultimately derive from Germanic paganism. Reduce speed to low; beat in chocolate and water until blended.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have yule log using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Yule log:
  1. Get 6 egg whites, room temperature (appx 1 hr)
  2. Take 3/4 cup suga
  3. Get 6 egg yolks
  4. Make ready 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
  5. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  6. Make ready 1 dash salt
  7. Make ready confectioners' sugar
  8. Prepare Filling
  9. Take 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, chilled
  10. Get 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
  11. Get 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
  12. Take 2 teaspoons instant coffee
  13. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

All Reviews for Classic Yule Log - of Reviews. Reviews: Most Helpful Most Helpful Most Positive Least Positive Newest. The yule log is an emblem of Christmas, and nothing feels more festive than decorating your holiday table with a yule log cake! For your next baking project, try Chef John's Yule log, or Buche de Noel, a chocolate sponge cake roll filled with rich mocha buttercream and frosted with chocolate ganache.

Instructions to make Yule log:
  1. Grease the bottom of a 15x10x1" jelly roll pan; line w/ waxed paper; grease slightly. Preheat oven to 375. In a lg electric mixer bowl, at high speed, beat egg whites until soft peaks form when beaters are slowly lifted. Add 1/4 c sugar, 2 T at a time, beating until stiff peaks form when beaters are slowly lifted.
  2. With the same beaters, beat yolks at high speed, adding remaining 1/2 c sugar, 2 T at a time; beat until mixture is very thick, appx 4 minutes. At low speed, beat in cocoa, vanilla, salt, just until smooth. With wire whisk or rubber spatula, gently fold cocoa mixture into egg whites just until blended (no egg whites should show).
  3. Spread evenly in pan. Bake 15 minutes, just until surface springs back when gently pressed with fingertip. Sift confectioner's sugar in a 15x10" rectangle on a clean linen towel. Turn cake out on sugar; lift off pan; peel paper off cake. Roll up cake jelly-roll-fashion, starting with the short end towel and all. Cool completely on rack, seam side down.
  4. FILLING: Combine ingredients in medium bowl. Beat with electric mixer until thick; chill.
  5. TO ASSEMBLE: Unroll cake; spread with filling to 1" from edge; reroll. Place, seam side down, on plate. Cover loosely with foil. Chill at least 1 hour before serving.
  6. TO SERVE: Sprinkle yule log w/ confectioner's sugar and decorate with red candied cherries and green angelica "leaves". If you can't find angelica, use cut up green candied cherries. - NOTE:You may make the Yule Log up to a week ahead and freeze, wrapped in foil. Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour before serving.

The yule log is an emblem of Christmas, and nothing feels more festive than decorating your holiday table with a yule log cake! For your next baking project, try Chef John's Yule log, or Buche de Noel, a chocolate sponge cake roll filled with rich mocha buttercream and frosted with chocolate ganache. The custom of burning the Yule Log goes back to, and before, medieval times. It was originally a Nordic tradition. Yule is the name of the old Winter Solstice festivals in Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe, such as Germany.

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