There are just about a million ways to make the traditional log-shaped Christmas cake, a Bûche de Nöel, but they all have three main components: cake, filling, and frosting. (They actually have four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Created in France in the late nineteenth century, Bûche de Noël is a favorite Christmas delicacy: a rolled chocolate cake that is ...

You can order a Buche de Noel, like this one from St. Honore Boulangerie. Or you can make one yourself at home. It takes time but is worth the effort for what Joan Harvey calls "an irresistible twirl ...

Pastry fiends know that with the arrival of Christmas so comes the arrival of Buche de Noel season, where all the French-inspired bakeries create luscious whipped cakes filled with flavored creams.

1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C/gas mark 4). Lightly grease the bottom and sides of the half sheet pan. Line the bottom with parchment and lightly ...

For Paul and Marcia Masse, Christmas began in July. That's when their busy Berkeley bakery, Masse's, received its first call about a buche de Noel. Never mind that Christmas was still months away, or ...

Julia Child’s impressive chocolate-almond Christmas cake Bûche de Noël taught me to never apologize. Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey / Prop Styling by Christina Daley When I ...

Bringing the Yule log or Christmas log inside is a custom that goes back for centuries. Called a buche de Noel in France, this large, well-dried log was decorated with greenery and brought into the ...

Sweets this time of year take on all kinds of whimsical shapes: cookies cut into stars, stockings and gingerbread men, candy canes, peanut butter balls ... or logs covered in frosting. Yes, really — ...

The swirl; the cracks. Any avid watcher of The Great British Bake Off is familiar with the pitfalls of the Swiss roll, aka the roll cake, the yule log, the bûche de Noël. But this impressive-looking ...