Christmas Chocolate Yule Log

For me Christmas isn't Christmas without baking something yummy and this Christmas I've made cornbread and now I'm making a chocolate Yule log and it was delicious so I thought I would share the recipe and the finished product with you.

Ingredients:
450ml Of Double Cream
4 Large Eggs
100g Caster Sugar
65g Self Raising Flour
40g Cocoa Powder
275g Dark Chocolate

I first preheated the oven to 200c and greased a 33x23 centimetre swiss role tin. I then proceeded to make the sponge, for the sponge I whisked the eggs and sugar together with a hand whisk until it was pale, light and fluffy. I then sifted in the flour and cocoa powder and folded it in with a spoon being careful not to beat out the air in the mixture. I then poured the mixture into the tin and baked it for 8-10 minutes until golden and shifting away from the edges. I placed a piece of parchment paper bigger than the cake on the table and turned it out onto it, from the longer edge I rolled up the swiss role and left it to cool.

I then went on to make the icing whilst the cake was cooling. I melted the chocolate and 300ml of the cream until completely melted, I then popped it into the fridge to firm up. I whipped up the rest of the cream.I also made my own decorations that were super simple but super affective, I melted some white chocolate and on some baking parchment made circles of white chocolate. I then took a tooth pick and some green food colouring and put the food colouring on the white chocolate and shaped it to look like trees, I then added a star on top and added some red food colouring onto the star to finish off, I then put them in the fridge to set.

Once the cake was completely cool I uncurled it and put it onto a cake board, i then evenly spread the cream over the cake and re rolled it up.  I diagonally cut a small chunk of the cake off and placed it on the side of the cake to look like a tree,I then spread the chocolate icing over the whole cake. Taking a fork I dragged it along the icing to look like tree bark, I dusted icing sugar all over the yule log to look like snow then added edible glitter to glam it up. I bought snowflake hundreds and thoughts and sprinkled them all over.