Bûche de Noël

Old fashion way.....



A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me if I could make a Bûche de Noël because she wanted to give it to her friend as a Christmas present, I said yes, no problem, why not? Her friend wanted it in the old fashion way, and also had to be fill with vanilla butter cream. So I made a sponge cake, I soaked it with kirsch simple syrup, spread the vanilla bean butter cream, rolled and covered with a chocolate Chantilly. I am not a fan of butter cream at all but the whole thing was very delicious I really really like it. I also made some meringue champignon (mushrooms) to decorate it, the snow effect was done using some icing sugar, as you can tell the bûche does not have any "snow", that was because I spent to much time setting the camera before I took the pictures so the icing sugar melted with the Chantilly. I know I should put something red and green for decoration but I was totally late for the delivery and did not have time to play with it. Overall was very fun to make and I think the customer was very happy with it.

Aerial view ;)