Christmas Cake- Buche de Noel
An appetizing Christmas cake with its buttercream is always better when homemade 🎄😋😋
Ingredients:
Cake
🍳 5 eggs
🍳 150 g sugar
🍳 150 g flour
🍳 Lemon Zest
🍳 2 drops vanilla liquid
🍳 sirop juice
Buttercream
🍳 2 egg whites
🍳 70 g sugar
🍳 180 g butter
🍳 40 g chocolate dark
🍳1 tbl spoon cacao powder
Decoration
🍳50 g chocolate dark
🍳 sugar powder
Method of Preparation:
1. Beat thoroughly the eggs while adding in small quantities the sugar, then add the flour and mix it with the spatula moving inward in circles then add the lemon zest and the vanilla. Drop the cake mix in a rectangular pan on a paper butter sheet and form a thin layer, bake at 180 degrees for 10 mn
2. On a humid towel sprinkle some cacao powder then place the cake and roll it out delicately to avoid breaking, then leave it aside to cool
3. Meanwhile prepare the buttercream: in a mixing bowl place the egg whites and the sugar and beat thoroughly on a bain-marie to attain a temperature of 45 to 50 degrees Celsius then remove and beat the mixture in the electric mixer. Wait until the temperature drops to human body temperature then add the butter that is at room temperature bit by bit to obtain a smooth buttercream. Melt the dark chocolate and wait so its temperature drops then add it to the buttercream along with the cocoa powder so we have now a chocolate buttercream.
4. Remove the cake from the towel and add the buttercream inside after soaking the cake dough with a sirop juice of your choice here I used pineapple juice. Roll it again cut the edges and form a beech tree then add the buttercream on top of the cake, decorate it with chocolate dark after melting it, and placing it in the fridge to form thick layers of chocolate, sprinkle some sugar powder to give an aspect of snow
Bon Appetit!
Cooking Time: 10 mn
Prep Time: 2 hours