Bûche De noël

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    one 12 in

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zingerman's Bakehouse

By Amy Emberling

Published 2017

  • About

Making Bûche de Noël at the bakery during December is a joyful sign of the holidays. We start to anticipate and plan in October, start making the decorative mushrooms in November, and then have log-rolling parties in December. It wouldn’t be Christmas at the bakery without Bûche de Noël!

The cake is composed of a rolled sponge or genoiselike cake filled most commonly with chocolate buttercream and decorated to look like a fallen log. Our version has chocolate bu