Yummy chocolate log

By foodiva

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 85 g golden caster sugar
• 85 g plain flour (less 2 tbsp)
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 50 g butter
• 140 g dark chocolate, broken into squares
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 284 ml pot double cream
• 200 g icing sugar, sifted
• 2-3 extra-strong mint, crushed (optional)
• icing sugar and holly sprigs to decorate - ensure you remove the berries before serving

Details

Servings 8
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 40mins
Adapted from bbcgoodfood.com

Preparation

Step 1

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A Christmas treat the kids will enjoy helping to make, with an unusual minty filling

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6.
Grease and line a 23 x 32cm Swiss roll tin
with baking parchment. Beat the eggs and
sugar together with an electric whisk for
about 8 mins until thick and creamy.

Mix the flour, cocoa and baking powder
together, then sift onto the egg mixture. Fold
in very carefully, then pour into the tin. Now
tip the tin from side to side to spread the
mixture into the corners. Bake for 10 mins.

To make the icing, melt the butter and
chocolate together in a bowl over a pan of
hot water. Take from the heat and stir in the
syrup and 5 tbsp cream. Beat in the icing
sugar until smooth. Whisk the remaining
cream until it holds its shape. Unravel the
cake, spread the cream over the top, scatter
over the crushed mints, if using, then
carefully roll up again into a log.

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.

I've tried it today for Christmas Eve dinner in NZ. This recipe is for keeps. It is kitchen tested giving you great result!!! Just a word of advise, make sure that the parchment lining is well greased. Use an oil spray so the cake can easily be detached when baked. Roll the cake whilst still hot using an extra parchment paper and a kitchen towel. This will help the cake mold its shape into a log. Only put filling and frosting when the cake has completely cooled down. Love it!!

I'm regularly asked by my friends to bake them cakes so I thought I'd put a twist on this classic Christmas recipe. Since it's Easter, I though I would make them an Easter log.

Next time I make it though, I will chill the double cream after whipping it as it will hold better when spreading it and rolling.

So easy to make I was really impressed! Not as fiddly as I thought. I think I made the cake part a bit thin and it went crispy at the edges making it tricky to roll at first, but I trimmed these bits off and it made a huge difference (and I got a tasty treat as I cooked :) ) Theres LOADS of icing!! I piled it on thick but still had lots left so going to make something else with it too. It looks fantastic, everything tasted great as I was making it, now I don't want to cut it :)

Just about to make this and wondering why I have to leave out 2 tbsp of flour and what I do with them??????

This is great. It looks great and tastes great. My family will not usually eat anything but Deila's chocolate log, but this vanished in minutes. will defo make again.

Amazing, I found it pretty easy to make and have made it lots of times now. Sometimes for extra chocolatetyness I use the chocolate gnash in the middle of the roll as well. It looks great at the end and is gone in minutes at a Christmas party.

Was delicious! Looked exactly like the picture. I didn't add the mints as wasn't sure kids would like them. Will def do again!!!

Tried this recipe for the first time & everyone has said how lovely it was. I didn't add the mint but followed the recipe otherwise - I found I had way too much icing so didn't use it all up but true chocoholics will do!

HELP ME! I am planning to make this for the first time and had a few questions which I am hoping you could help me with, so there goes:

1. Can I add Baileys to the double cream and whisk together and skip the mint? If so how much Baileys should I add?

2. If I cannot add.baileys in the cream, then can I leave some Baileys to soak into the cake itself before adding the filling? Would that be better?

3. Do you think i could make it on the 23rd for 25th evening? I will be leaving home to drive to my family then and won't be able to make it at theirs sso wanted to make it in advance. Any suggestions?

I've never made a chocolate log before but this recipe was simple to make, easy to follow and rolled really easily into the log shape. The only thing I changed was the filling and chocolate covering as I'm lactose intolerant. I was also really pleased that I didn't have to adapt the recipe for the cake to be dairy free. Will definitely be making this one again!

I want to make this today - excuse my ignorance but is it right that there is no butter or marg in the cake part?! urgent reply needed! Hope to do it this afternnon

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