Chocolate Yule Log Cake (Co-Op) By @Cinabar

Last year, due to a bit of a mix-up, we didn’t get a Christmas Yule log. This year, I picked one up from the Co-Op the second I saw that the use-by date was reasonable. A Yule Log cake is a chocolate Swiss roll cake with icing to make it look like a log. It is a Christmas tradition here.

 

So today marks the start of my Christmas break, and as such, we decided to crack open the Yule Log cake and start our Christmas mood. The cake looks stunning in the box, with layers and layers of chocolate fondant icing. When we opened the box, the cake did look rather small, well narrow, I suppose. We sliced some onto plates, and even on the small dessert plates with the small dessert forks, the cakes looked really small. It says it serves 8, but we were doing 6, and the portions still looked light.

Taste-wise, though, it was a delight; the sponge was moist and chocolatey, and the icing was a sugary chocolate blast of goodness. It was rich and full of flavour, and we were scraping our plates. We wanted more, but it was certainly a very good start to the Christmas break.