Step-by-Step Guide to Make Any-night-of-the-week Chocolate log

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chocolate log. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate log is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chocolate log is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate log using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate log:

1. Prepare Cake
2. Get eggs
3. Take Caster sugar
4. Make ready Plain flour
5. Take cocoa powder
6. Get baking powder
7. Take Icing
8. Take butter
9. Make ready dark chocolate
10. Make ready double cream
11. Prepare golden syrup
12. Get icing sugar
13. Get Middle
14. Make ready double cream (minus 5tbsp using for the icing)

Instructions to make Chocolate log:

1. Whisk eggs and sugar together until creamy
2. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powered into the mixture. Folder the dry ingredients into the wet
3. Line a tin with grease proof paper and pour in the mixture
4. Bake at 200oC for 10mins
5. 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.
6. To make the icing, melt the butter and chocolate in a bain-marie.
7. When melted, take off the heat and add the cream and golden syrup. Beat in the icing sugar
8. For the middle, whisk the remaining of the cream until it holds it shape
9. Unroll the cake and spread the cream on. Carefully roll back up
10. 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.
11. Scatter with unsifted icing sugar to resemble snow

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