Buche de Noel

[louiselux]

Fired up by memories of Antique Bakery, I'm going to have a go at making this Buche de Noel. Aka chocolate log.

Getting a 'wood-like effect' using cream and melted chocolate sounds difficult though, and I'm not entirely convinced by Delia's efforts in the picture shown. Doesn't it look like it has the potential for messy disaster?

This one looks extremely log-like - I like the presentation.

This one is a bit frightening, but it has fake mushrooms. Hmmm.

This one is more sophistamacated - but not very log like.

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[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

Food Network just had a special on holiday foods, including a Buche de Noel. I immediately thought of Antique Bakery *g* The "logs" they made included little chocolate raccoons that peaked out. I'm not sure I could eat cute little raccoon heads...

The way the bakers got the 'wood effect' in the show was to drench the cake logs in chocolate and brush them with what looked like flat plastic pieces with uneven ridges at one end.