Chocolate Bûche de Noël

Bûche de Noël

Preheat oven to 375°F. Grease 15-1/2 X 10-1/2-inch jelly-roll pan; line pan with waxed paper. Grease waxed paper; set pan aside. Place flour, baking powder and salt in small bowl; stir. Beat egg yolks and 2/3 cup sugar in small bowl with mixer at high for 5 minutes or until thick and lemon-colored. Mix in vanilla; set aside.

Beat egg whites in large bowl at high speed until foamy. Gradually beat in remaining 1/3 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until stiff peaks form.

Fold flour mixture into egg yolk mixture; fold into egg white mixture. Spread mixture into pan. Bake 12 to 15 minutes.

Lightly sift powdered sugar over clean dish towel. Loosen warm cake from edges of pan; invert onto prepared towel. Remove pan; carefully peel off waxed paper. Gently roll up cake in towel from short end, jelly-roll style. Let rolled cake cool completely on wire rack.

For chocolate filling, place chocolate chips and cream in heavy 1-quart saucepan. Heat over low heat until chocolate is melted, stirring frequently. Pour into small bowl; stir in rum. Cover and refrigerate about 1-1/2 hours or until filling is of spreading consistency, stirring occasionally.

Unroll cake; remove towel. Spread cake with chilled chocolate filling to within 1/2 inch of edge; reroll cake. Spread Cocoa Frosting over cake roll. Sprinkle with cocoa and powdered sugar. (We actually put holly sugar layons on our cake.)

Posted by: amster88 | 11-29-2010 | 12:11 PM
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Chocolate Dipped Brownies With Snowman

Best Chocolate Brownie (a winner from our Facebook Fan Page Contest)

4 tbsp unsalted butter
1/4 cup flour
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 oz unsweetened bakers chocolate, grated
2 ounces semi-sweet baking chip
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp Madagascar vanilla

Coat and flour a 9 x 9 pan. Use a double boiler with about 1 inch of water over medium-high heat to melt unsweetened chocolate, butter, semi-sweet chocolate together.  Place eggs, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and mix on high for about 1 minute. Add the melted chocolate and mix for an additional 30 seconds. Add the dry ingredients  and mix again. Add the sour cream and mix again.
Pour the batter in the cake pan. Bake at 325 for about 40 minutes.

Cut brownies into even squares and let cool.  With the dipping tool, dip into melted milk chocolate and placed them in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. We used a candy painting bottle to drizzle white chocolate on the top.

Snowman: Place 3 mini marshmallows onto the top end of a toothpick.  Dip into melted white chocolate.  To make the eyes we used a toothpick dipped in chocolate. The nose is a yellow Jimmie sprinkle pictured here.  The tie we made with a toothpick dipped in white chocolate colored green. The hat is fashioned out of a Tootsie Roll.  Isn’t he cute?

Posted by: amster88 | 11-05-2010 | 02:11 PM
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