You have already bought the nougats (or you have prepared them yourself), the polvorones, the mantecados… But do you want to innovate this year and continue the tradition of the Yule log? Check how simple it is with our recipes that you can also prepare in advance.
Like many traditions, it is difficult to know exactly the origin. It seems that in the pre-Christian tradition a log was burned at the winter solstice which was to burn for three days and, later, with the appearance of the stoves, since the nineteenth century, the tradition of preparing a dessert that simulates it was adopted. This French tradition of the Yule log has already spread across much of Europe.
the Christmas log can have several versionsfrom a thin type cake that is rolled up with a filling chocolate, cream, cream… The most classic version emulates the trunk with the layer of marbled chocolate. But you can dare with the red “Velours rouge”, vanilla, truffle, raspberry or nougat and toppings with flakes, chocolate, stripes…
1. Classic Yule Log
If you want to start with the classic, prepare the Christmas log with a cream filling and the rolled cake on it and an almond crocanti.
2. Red Velvet Yule Log
This red velvet Christmas log will surprise your guests with the intense red color of the cake, obtained with a red coloring gel, and with the color contrast created with the cream and cheese filling.
3. Yule Log
This trunk is soft and delicious, with the truffle, which as it is homemade, it will have to be left to rest in the fridge for at least 12 hours. Prepare it in advance. The filling is whipped cream.
4. Vanilla trunk stuffed with truffles
This Christmas log proposal has a truffle filling and an exquisite dark chocolate and cardamom coating. It is decorated with sugar balls on top of chocolate.
5. Cocoa trunk with raspberry and cream
To this trunk we add cocoa to the thin sponge cake and fill it with raspberry cream. Plus, there’s icing sugar and more whole raspberries. This is delicious.
6. Double Chocolate Yule Log
Is chocolate your downfall? Well, let yourself be tempted by this variant of the Yule log where the protagonist is chocolate. It looks amazing because we decorated it with fondant stars and sugar pearls.
7. Truffle Yule Log
Look how beautiful this trunk is with its striped finish in two colors! It is obtained by adding cocoa to half the mass of the cake. The filling is truffle.
8. Chest filled with chocolate
Note this yule log recipe that you can also prepare as a dessert at any time of the year, like a roulade rolled with a sponge cake and a chocolate ganache.
9. Chocolate chest filled with nougat cream
In this version, cocoa is added to the sponge cake, with a very spongy texture, to give it an extra taste and the filling is as Christmas as it gets: nougat cream.
10. Custard log with chocolate flake crust
This chest is irresistible. It is gorgeous with the chocolate flake crust and pastry cream filling. To decorate, you can cut strawberries.
11. Cocoa trunk with cream, strawberries and walnuts
If you are looking for ideas that also include fruit to finish the Christmas menu, here is a suggestion that will please you: a cocoa trunk with cream, strawberries and crushed walnuts. You can also make it with berries instead of strawberries.