Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate log. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chocolate log is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chocolate log is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate log using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate log:
Make ready Cake
Make ready 3 eggs
Make ready 85 g Caster sugar
Take 85 g Plain flour
Take 2 tbsp cocoa powder
Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
Prepare Icing
Get 50 g butter
Take 140 g dark chocolate
Get 5 tbsp double cream
Prepare 1 tbsp golden syrup
Make ready 200 g icing sugar
Get Middle
Prepare 300 ml double cream (minus 5tbsp using for the icing)
Instructions to make Chocolate log:
Whisk eggs and sugar together until creamy
Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powered into the mixture. Folder the dry ingredients into the wet
Line a tin with grease proof paper and pour in the mixture
Bake at 200oC for 10mins
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.
To make the icing, melt the butter and chocolate in a bain-marie.
When melted, take off the heat and add the cream and golden syrup. Beat in the icing sugar
For the middle, whisk the remaining of the cream until it holds it shape
Unroll the cake and spread the cream on. Carefully roll back up
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.
Scatter with unsifted icing sugar to resemble snow
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