Chocolate Bûche De Noël
- Cake:
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 2 teaspoons grated orange zest
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
- Filling:
- 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 1 tablespoon grated orange zest
- 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
- Pinch of salt
- Frosting:
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
- 3 tablespoons fresh orange juice
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- Pinch of salt
- Make cake: Preheat oven to 325u0b0F. Mist a 12-by-17-inch rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray; line with parchment. Sift cocoa and flour together in a small bowl.
- Beat yolks and zest until thick, 8 minutes. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until fluffy. Add sugar; beat until glossy and stiff. Fold 1/4 of whites into yolks, then fold in remaining whites. Fold in juice and flour mixture. Do not overmix. Pour batter into pan; spread. Bake until cake springs back when touched, 12 minutes.
- Sift enough cocoa onto a large kitchen towel to cover it. Invert warm cake onto towel. Carefully peel off parchment. Starting at long end and using towel as a guide, roll up cake and towel. Transfer roll, seam side down, to wire rack.
- Make filling: Beat cream cheese, butter, juice and zest until creamy. Gradually beat in sugar and salt. Cover; chill until firm but spreadable, 40 minutes.
- Make frosting: Melt chocolate; cool to room temperature. Mix cocoa, juice and 1 Tbsp. hot water. Beat butter, sugar and salt until fluffy. Mix in chocolate, then cocoa mixture.
- Assemble cake: Unroll cake; remove towel. Reserve 2 T bsp. filling. Spread remaining filling over cake. Reroll cake. Cover with towel and chill, seam side down, until filling is set, about 30 minutes.
- Cut cake on a diagonal; removing a 3-inch piece from each end for branches. Spread 1 T bsp. of filling on each piece; press against long side of cake at opposite ends. Frost cake. Draw lines with a fork to resemble bark. Draw circles on branches to look like rings. Chill.
- Remove cake from refrigerator 1 hour before serving. Sift confectioners' sugar over cake, if desired.
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Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-bche-de-nol (may not work)