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Ingredients
Cake:
3 eggs
130 gms sugar
85gms flour, sieved
Half teaspoon baking powder, sieved
One teaspoon vanilla essence
Chocolate cream:
Half dessertspoon cocoa
170gms butter
110gms icing sugar
Method
First you bake the cake like so:
1. Beat eggs with sugar until creamy
2. Fold in the flour and baking powder
3. Add vanilla essence and mix thoroughly
4. Pour cake mixture into a log mould or rectangular baking tin
5. Preheat oven to 180oC/350oF and bake
Then you prepare the chocolate cream:
1. Mix the cocoa powder with water into a smooth paste
2. Mix butter and sugar and knead by hand until creamy
3. Add the cocoa paste
4. Pour chocolate cream into a forcing bag fitted with a star nozzle
Making the Yule Log:
1. After cake has cooled, place on a tray
2. Holding the forcing bag, carefully pipe lines onto cake to resemble tree bark
3. Decorate finished cake with marzipan fruits, tinsel tree and Santa
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