Celebration chocolate log

Name: Celebration chocolate log
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 110 g dark chocolate (about 70% cocoa solids), chopped; 350 ml whipping cream; thin slices of crystallized orange zest, extra toasted hazelnuts, chocolate curls or shards; 110 g best quality dark chocolate (about 70% cocoa solids), chopped; 60 g dark brown or Demerara sugar; 75 g milk chocolate, chopped; 75 g hazelnuts, toasted, skinned and roughly chopped; 65 g unsalted butter; 1 tbsp flour; 1 tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 tbsp golden syrup; ½ tsp grated orange zest; 55 g unsalted butter; 120 ml whipping cream; 140 g dark chocolate (about 70% cocoa solids), chopped; ¼ tsp coarse salt; 2 tbsp sugar; 2 eggs

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Table in the Tarn

By Orlando Murrin

Published 2008

About

This gleamingly impressive chocolate cake is worthy of the finest Parisian pâtisserie. It is made in several stages and cannot be hurried, so I prefer to make it the day before eating.

Ingredients

For the Base

110 g best quality dark chocolate (about 70% cocoa solids), chopped
60 g dark brown or

Europe
France
Cake
Mediterranean
Microwave
Vegetarian

Method

To make the cake, line a Swiss roll tin about 33x23cm with baking paper, or fold a piece of baking paper to this size, complete with sides and corners, and put on a baking sheet. Melt the chocolate, brown sugar and butter with the zest (in the microwave or over hot water). Stir in the salt. The mixture at this point will look as if something has gone wrong, but do not lose heart. Beat the eggs