Gigliocooking wishes everyone to have peaceful holidays around a table laden with smiles and good food.
A toast to you all with best wishes for all the things that bring us happiness and health.
We wish you Merry Christmas
with an easy and joyful dessert to make at home
CHRISTMAS LOG
A cake with the shape of a snow-ed fir-log.
Ingredients:
For the pastry dough:
4 egg, separated
75 gr (2 ½ oz) sugar
a few drop of vanilla extract or
a pinch of vanilla powder
a pinch of salt
75 gr (2 ½ oz) flour
For the filling:
1 egg
2 tbs (30 gr – 1 Oz) sugar
2 tbs Brandy
400 gr (13 Oz) chestnut jam
1 tbs bitter cocoa
For the topping:
300 gr (10 Oz) bitter chocolate
For garnish:
Powdered sugar
Candy fruits
- Put 4 egg yolks in a bowl (keeping the whites apart) with 75 grams sugar and beat up with a whisk. Add the vanilla powder (1 envelope) and a pinch of salt.
- In one other bowl, beat up the egg whites until stiff.
- Add 75 gr flour to the yolk mixture, a bit a time, passing it through a sieve; then add the whites carefully.
- Pour out the batter in a large baking pan and cook at 200° for 10-12 minutes. Wet a large cloth and lay it on the table; remove the cake over it. Roll the cake with the cloth and put in the fridge for 1 hour. Take care the cake is still hot as you roll it.
- Prepare the cream. Put 1 whole egg in a bowl, add 2 spoons of sugar and beat up until foamy (to prevent eventual salmonella diseases, heat this batter in double boiling until 70°). Aromatize with 2 spoons of brandy, add 400 grams chestnut jam, a spoon of bitter cocoa and mix well.
- Take off the rolled pastry from the fridge; un-wrap with care; lay the cream upon it. Roll again. Wrap in the cloth, or in plastic film, and put in the fridge again for 3 hours.
- Remove from the fridge, take off the plastic film, cut the two ends and joint them to the sides, as a tree log.
- With a spatula, lay melted chocolate, making strips with a fork.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar (the snow) and decorate with candy fruits.