Make This Bûche De Noël For Christmas

You may have seen a bûche de Noël at many Christmas parties over the years, but have you ever been brave enough to try it? This Christmas cake may look like a chopped log, but it's actually an airy sponge chocolate cake wrapped around a creamy cocoa filling, and covered in chocolate frosting. Yum!

Try impressing everyone at your holiday party this year by making a bûche de Noël from scratch with our incredible recipe. The filling for this recipe is a classic chocolate frosting made with cocoa powder, heavy cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla. The chocolate cake has an unexpected spice from a pinch of cream of tartar, and is dusted in powdered sugar for a sweet, fluffy taste. While rolling the cake around the filling may intimidate you, our recipe will guide you to making the perfect chocolate cake for Christmas with ease.

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Bûche de Noël, also known as yule log cake, was inspired from a tradition of burning decorated logs during winter solstice to cleanse the air of the previous year's events and to enter into the spring, a tradition that started before the medieval era, according to History.com. The cake's chocolate frosting is made to resemble the bark on a log, and the swirled frosting inside is made to look like the rings of a chopped log. The first cake dates back to 1615, when the first recipe appeared in "The English Huswife." Try making this hundred-year-old cake for a traditional, impressive dessert to serve at your Christmas party.