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Submitted by Eihdos
There are a few parts to this recipe and the final construction. This is an elaborate dessert if done up all the way, but you can stop at any point after the icing and it'll still look like a Yule log.
Ingredients for the sponge cake
First, you need to bake a chocolate sponge cake in a jelly roll pan. The recipe I use is:
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup flour
1/4
cup cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Directions
Heat oven to 375F. Line jelly roll pan with greased parchment paper or foil.
Beat eggs until very thick, about 5 minutes. Gradually beat in the sugar. Beat in the water and vanilla on low speed. Mix the flour, baking soda and salt well, then gradually beat that into the egg mixture just until smooth. Pour into the pan, spreading into the corners.
Bake 12-15 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean from the center. Immeadiately loosen and remove cake to a tea towel generously sprinkled with powdered sugar. Remove the paper carefully and trim off stiff edges of the cake. While hot, carefully roll the cake and towel from the narrow end. Cool for at least 30 minutes on a rack, then carefully unroll and remove the towel. Slice off a 1" wide strip from the end, cut in half, spread with frosting and reroll them to make branch stubs.
Ingredients for chocolate frosting
Spread with chocolate frosting. You could use the stuff from the store if you like. I use this recipe:
Fudge Frosting (double this for this recipe- this amount will a single 9" layer cake, so you need twice as much to fill and frost the Yule log)
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tbls cocoa
1/4 cup milk
2 Tbls butter or
margerine
1 Tbls light corn syrup
Dash of salt
3/4 cup powdered
sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Directions
Mix sugar and cocoa in a saucepan. Stir in milk, butter, syrup and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Boil for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla.
Chill filled cake for about an hour. Glaze outside of cake with melted semi-sweet chocolate chips, about 1/2 cup should cover everything with a light coating. This seals in crumbs. Use the chocolate to glue the branch pieces you made to the log. If you trim off the branch pieces at an angle, you can make them look very realistic.
Once the chocolate has hardened, frost over the cake with the remaining fudge frosting. Using a fork, draw bark into the soft frosting.
From here, it's all presentation/decoration. You could simply sprinkle a light dusting of powdered sugar over the cake and it would look great as is. If you like, however, you can make it look like a woodland scene, complete with mushrooms and moss.