Bûche de Noël - chez moi

Bûche de Noël

"yule log"

Adopting another French tradition, 

we welcome Christmas with a bûche de Noël.

Using a recipe inspired by the celebrated Paris pastry shop Ladurée, the bûche consists of a buttercream icing, a roulade of fine bittersweet chocolate, and a filling of rich semisweet chocolate.  The humidity and rainstorms steered us to marzipan rather than our preferred meringue mushrooms.  Here is a recipe in English and another here in French.  We used the English recipe.

This confection was a collaboration of daughter Holly, 

visiting French girl, and moi.  

...sending you Christmas wishes 

(still have to make Jesus' birthday cake)

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