Yule Log with Chesnuts

To make one rolled cake

Ingredients :

• 4 egg yolks
• 90 g sugar
• 90 g flour
• 3 egg whites, stiffly beaten
• 30 g butter, melted

Chesnut filing

• 1 kg cooked chesnuts
• 100 g beuree manie
• 2 egg yolks
• 150 g plain chocolate, meltde in 4 tbsp of water
• Sweetened whipped cream or icing sugar

Directions :

1. Beat the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl with a wooden spatula until the mixture turns pale. Gradually sift in the flour. Add the egg whites to the mixture along with the melted butter. Cover a baking tray with buttered greasproof paper.
2. Pour on the mixture, spreading it evenly to a thickness of about 1.5 cm. Cook in a hot oven preheated to 220० C for 8 to 10 minutes or until the cake is firm but not coloured. Remove the baking tray from the oven and turn the cake out on to a stainless steel or marble surface, with the paper side up. Peel off the paper and cover the cake with a cloth so that it stays light and does not harden, and is easy to roll. Let it cool completely.
3. For the filing, puree the chesnuts by sieving them or putting them through a food mill. Beat in the beurre manie, the egg yolks and 100 g of the melted chocolate. Spread three-quarters of this mixture on the cake and roll it up to form a log. Cover and decorate the log with the remaining chesnut mixture and the rest of the melted chocolate icing.
4. Make stripes in the chesnut-chocolate mixture with a fork, to imitate the bark of the log. Snowy effects can be achieved with sweetened whipped cream or icing sugar. Use your imagination to make sprigs of holly or mistletoe.

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