LUCKY! 12 Yule Log Recipes
Buche de Noel for Christmas, The History, The Cakes. My Book.
Today I’m serving a few delicious items. For starters, I wanted to introduce you to my new book for children (of all ages), ‘Lucky the Christmas Mushroom’. It’s a festive/folktale book and is available now globally thru Amazon!
You may be thinking, what the heck does this book have to do with cake? Stay with me here. Lucky is a mushroom who is alive, and his house is a yule log! (You’ll have to wait until your book is delivered to see it!)
For the second course, I felt how perfect would it be to publish a post with a little bit of yule log history.
For the main course, I will be sharing 12 exquisite (extraordinary) recipes. I love how bakers around the world decorate their cakes so uniquely. Often folksy & darling, but others very modern.
This divine yule log above by the amazing The Kitchen McCabe, a blog based on wholesome recipes, beautiful food and photography. Photo credit: Kayley McCabe | Food Photographer & Recipe Developer.
“Buche de Noel is one of many traditional cakes baked at Christmas. As the name suggests, it is of French origin. The name of this recipe literally translates as "Christmas log," referring to the traditional Yule log burned centuries past. The ingredients suggest the cake is most likely a 19th century creation. That's when thinly rolled sponge cakes filled with jam or cream and covered with buttercream icing begin to show up in European cookbooks. Marzipan and meringue, typically employed for decorative purposes, date to the Medieval Ages and the 17th century respectively. We find no person/place/company credited for having *invented* this particular confection.” - Lynne Olver, Food Timeline Org
More Christmas Food History here.
Let’s get to the recipes, shall we?
No. 1: Baking a Moment
No. 2: Heather Baird, Sprinkle Bakery
No. 3: The Flavor Bender
No. 4: Black Forest Bûche de Noël
(The Yule Log Cake is a tradition that marks Winter, but in Norse tradition, celebrates Thor.) ⠀
No. 5: Mulled Wine Stump de Noel Cake
No. 6: Martha Stewart
No. 7: Joy of Baking
No. 8: Bake Club
No. 9: Savory Cake
No. 10: Mennonite Girls Can Cook
No. 11: No Bake Mocha Cake
No. 12: Holiday Yule Log with Axe Topper
For dessert, the cake you make! I hope you enjoy baking a yule log this year!
