Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Chocolate log

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chocolate log. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chocolate log is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chocolate log is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate log using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate log:

1. Make ready Cake
2. Make ready 3 eggs
3. Make ready 85 g Caster sugar
4. Get 85 g Plain flour
5. Get 2 tbsp cocoa powder
6. Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
7. Take Icing
8. Get 50 g butter
9. Make ready 140 g dark chocolate
10. Take 5 tbsp double cream
11. Take 1 tbsp golden syrup
12. Make ready 200 g icing sugar
13. Take Middle
14. Make ready 300 ml double cream (minus 5tbsp using for the icing)

Steps to make Chocolate log:

1. Whisk eggs and sugar together until creamy
2. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powered into the mixture. Folder the dry ingredients into the wet
3. Line a tin with grease proof paper and pour in the mixture
4. Bake at 200oC for 10mins
5. Lay a fresh sheet of grease proof paper on a work surface. When the cake is ready, tip it onto the paper, peel off the lining paper, then roll the cake up from its longest edge with the paper inside. Leave to cool.
6. To make the icing, melt the butter and chocolate in a bain-marie.
7. When melted, take off the heat and add the cream and golden syrup. Beat in the icing sugar
8. For the middle, whisk the remaining of the cream until it holds it shape
9. Unroll the cake and spread the cream on. Carefully roll back up
10. Cut a thick diagonal slice from one end of the log. Lift the log on to a plate, then arrange the slice on the side with the diagonal cut against the cake to make a branch. Spread the icing over the log and branch (don’t cover the ends), then use a fork to mark the icing to give the effect of tree bark.
11. Scatter with unsifted icing sugar to resemble snow

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