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Seasons Greetings (and a Buche de Noel) from the Monday Morning Cooking Club…
Seasons Greetings (and a Buche de Noel) from the Monday Morning Cooking Club...
To all our dear friends,
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One of our all-time-favourite Monday Morning Cooking Club recipes is the Buche de Chocolat (which we conveniently call a Buche de Noel at this time of year!!)
The recipe is in the book, but we’ve reprinted it here so you can make it RIGHT NOW. We’ve also included a little 1 minute ‘how to’ video at the bottom.
Happy cooking, and happy holidays to all!
Lisa and the MMCC gals xx
Buche de Chocolat
Ingredients
- 225 g dark chocolate , chopped
- 1 tsp Instant cofee
- 80 ml boiling water
- 7 whole eggs , separated
- 230 g caster sugar (Superfine)
- 300 ml pure cream (35% fat)
- 2 tsp icing sugar
- 1 whole Vanilla bean , scraped
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C. Line the base of a 38 x 26 cm swiss roll tin with baking paper. You will need a few dressmaking pins to secure the cake.
- Melt the chocolate with the coffee and water in a double boiler or in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Allow to cool slightly. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. In a separate bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the melted chocolate. Fold this mixture into the egg whites and spread it out into the prepared tin.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. When the cake is cool, cover with a tea towel and put in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Beat the cream with the icing sugar and vanilla seeds until thick, and set aside.
- Remove the cake from the fridge. Sift the cocoa powder over the cake, then cover with a piece of baking paper and turn it over. Remove the tin and the baking paper that was on base of the cake.
- Place cream in the middle third of the cake, along its full length, and make a large long log as follows. Lift up the two long sides of the cake and bring them over to meet in the middle, sliding one side under the other to encase the cream. Using dressmaking pins to secure the package, join the paper and fold down, holding the paper tightly around the log to help hold its shape. Put the cake in the fridge until ready to serve.
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Lisa Goldberg
Lisa embraces the part of Jewish culture which embodies the saying ‘it’s always about the food’. She is a fresser with an unbridled passion for eating, cooking and nurturing those around her with food. Her legal background has given her a great foundation to help guide – and work side by side with – this truly amazing bunch of kind, funny and enlightening women to produce and publish four extraordinary cookbooks. She feels incredibly grateful to have had (and still has) the opportunity – since 2006 – to spend so much of her time dedicated to, and fully immersed in, such a delicious, inspiring and worthwhile project.
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2 Comments
Hi Lisa & gals,
Do you think I can substitute the whipping cream for Hadar, maybe use a little less sugar?
This is the only way I can think of to make it parev.
Any suggestions?
Happy holidays!
Regards,
Shelly.
Hi Shelly
Apologies for the slow response here! If you are happy using Hadar as a substitute for whipped cream (thinking taste and texture), then go right ahead. The cream is an important part of the cake, so if you like Hadar then it should be fine. I haven’t used it before so I am unable to really judge – sorry 🙁
Perhaps you could cut the cake in half (crossways) instead of rolling it, and spread one half with a little raspberry jam and a thin layer of Hadar (whipped) and then put the other half of the cake on top. Sprinkle the top with cocoa powder and cut into squares to serve. That way the cream becomes less important and it may just do the trick.
Hope this helps!
Cheers
Lisa