Okay, so I've been gone for a while....and I'm going to blame the holiday season until I can't blame it anymore! With all the shopping, cooking, pastry finals, and LIFE in general I have little time to write witty entries to my blog. For this, I am extremely sorry. So to try and win your forgiveness I present you a Buche de Noel (aka Yule Log)!
In class the other day, we made a Charlotte Royale, which if you don't know, is a 1950's "elegant" dessert consisting of raspberry bavarian cream and jelly roll pinwheels. After making the jelly roll I began think about how I can turn this into chocolate, surprising right? Well I went looking online and found a couple recipes for Chocolate Swiss Rolls. I even found a video of how to roll up your cake. I mean, in essence its a BIG Little Debbie Ho-Ho so I figured it wouldn't be that hard to whip up. One recipe really stood out which was a Yule Log recipe that included adorable meringue mushrooms and I new that I had to make it.
