This is the Yule log recipe which my grandmother used to make every year with coffee buttercream. The whole family loves it! Mamie used to decorate her log with Christmas decorations which pleased kids and adults alike. When my daughter turned one, I wanted to bake her a cake which she could eat, with less sugar than a traditional birthday cake. I therefore baked the cake with less sugar and prepared a different cream using ricotta, mascarpone and agave syrup – although I then found out that agave nectar isn’t much healthier an option than refined sugar.
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 50 g sugar
- 25 g flour
- 25 g cornstarch
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
Mocha buttercream
- 250 g butter unsalted
- sugar
- 1 or 2 egg yolks
- coffee extract
Marie's buttercream
- 200 g ricotta
- 200 g mascarpone
- 100 g butter unsalted
- agave nectar
- cinnamon
Servings: servings
Instructions
- Mix the egg yolks and the sugar until creamy, then add flour and corn starch.
- Add the stiff egg whites.
- Pour the batter onto a baking tray and pop in a medium warm oven (180°C) for about 20 minutes.
- As soon as you take the cake out of the oven, roll it while it’s warm and leave to cool. That way, the biscuit won’t break when you roll it.
For the mocha buttercream
- Mix the softened butter with the remaining ingredients. Once you’ve made the cream, decorate the Yule log with a piping bag.
For Marie's buttercream
- Mix the ricotta and the mascarpone, add some agave nectar according to taste and season with cinnamon. Add softened butter to the mix and decorate the cake.
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