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Title: A Buche De Noel (French Yule Log Cake) - Part 1
Yield: 10 Servings

Ingredients

  -----------------------ALMOND SPONGE SHEET-----------------------------
      3    egg yolks
    1/2 c  sugar, granulated
      1 md orange; grated rind & juice
    3/4 c  almonds; blanched & ground
      1    .  with 3 tbsp granulated
      1    .  sugar
    1/4 ts almond extract
    1/2 c  flour, cake
      3    egg whites
      3 tb sugar, granulated
      1    confectioner's sugar; in a
      1    .  sifter
 
  ---------------------------MERINGUE BASE-------------------------------
      3 lg egg whites
      1 pn salt
    1/4 ts cream of tartar; scant
  1 1/3 c  sugar, granulated
 
  ---------------------------FILLING BASE--------------------------------
     12 oz semisweet baker's chocolate
      1    .  melted with 1/3 cup
      1    .  strong coffee
      1 tb vanilla extract
      3 tb rum, dark, jamaican
      4 tb butter, unsalted, softened
 
  -----------------------------FILLING-----------------------------------
      4 tb butter, unsalted, softened
 
  ----------------------------DECORATION---------------------------------
      3 tb unsweetened cocoa; in a tea
      1    .  strainer
      1    confectioner's sugar; in a
      1    .  sifter
 
  -------------------------SPUN CARAMEL VEIL-----------------------------
      1 c  sugar, granualted
      3 tb syrup, corn, white

Instructions

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT SUGGESTED

A jelly-roll pan about 11 by 17 inches; butter, wax paper, and flour for
the pan; an electric blender or food processor for the aImonds; a
table-model electric mixer for the meringue; a pastry bag with 3/8-inch
tube opening and a separate tube with l/8-inch opening, for the mushrooms;
a buttered and floured no-stick pas try sheet for the mushrooms; a serving
board to hold the log plenty of wax paper; an oiled broom handle suspended
between 2 chair backs and newspapers on the floor, for the caramel. ** For
the directions, please see part #2 **

Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #210 by BobbieB1@aol.com on Aug 11, 1997

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