Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chocolate log. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Check Out Chocolate Log On eBay. Cut a thick diagonal slice from one end of the log. Lift the log on to a plate, then arrange the slice on the side with the diagonal cut against the cake to make a branch. Spread the icing over the log and branch (don't cover the ends), then use a fork to mark the icing to give the effect of tree bark.

Chocolate log is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chocolate log is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate log using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate log:

1. Make ready Cake
2. Take 3 eggs
3. Take 85 g Caster sugar
4. Prepare 85 g Plain flour
5. Prepare 2 tbsp cocoa powder
6. Get 1/2 tsp baking powder
7. Take Icing
8. Get 50 g butter
9. Make ready 140 g dark chocolate
10. Take 5 tbsp double cream
11. Prepare 1 tbsp golden syrup
12. Get 200 g icing sugar
13. Take Middle
14. Take 300 ml double cream (minus 5tbsp using for the icing)

Beat egg yolks with sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the softened butter, flour, baking powder and a tablespoon of lukewarm water. When you can see the chocolate has melted until smooth, stir in the sugar and egg mixture. Add the vanilla extract, sieve the cocoa powder over, then fold both in.

Steps to make Chocolate log:

1. Whisk eggs and sugar together until creamy
2. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powered into the mixture. Folder the dry ingredients into the wet
3. Line a tin with grease proof paper and pour in the mixture
4. Bake at 200oC for 10mins
5. Lay a fresh sheet of grease proof paper on a work surface. When the cake is ready, tip it onto the paper, peel off the lining paper, then roll the cake up from its longest edge with the paper inside. Leave to cool.
6. To make the icing, melt the butter and chocolate in a bain-marie.
7. When melted, take off the heat and add the cream and golden syrup. Beat in the icing sugar
8. For the middle, whisk the remaining of the cream until it holds it shape
9. Unroll the cake and spread the cream on. Carefully roll back up
10. Cut a thick diagonal slice from one end of the log. Lift the log on to a plate, then arrange the slice on the side with the diagonal cut against the cake to make a branch. Spread the icing over the log and branch (don’t cover the ends), then use a fork to mark the icing to give the effect of tree bark.
11. Scatter with unsifted icing sugar to resemble snow

When you can see the chocolate has melted until smooth, stir in the sugar and egg mixture. Add the vanilla extract, sieve the cocoa powder over, then fold both in. Lighten the yolk mixture with a couple of dollops of the egg whites, folding them in robustly. Then add the remaining whites in thirds, folding them in carefully to avoid losing the air. Mary Cadogan's festive chocolate log will go down a treat with everyone - it's a lighter recipe than most.

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