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From the rolling of the cake to the icing to the decorating, we walk you through creating a festive yule log your guests will ...

A bûche de Noël is only as good as its cake. This recipe for vanilla chiffon cake delivers a perfect, fluffy, thin sheet of ...

A bûche de Noël (the classic yule log cake) represents the pinnacle of Christmas baking excellence: a beautiful centerpiece for your holiday spread that not only tastes awesome, but shows you put some ...

Dominique Ansel is a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef and owner of Dominique Ansel Bakery and Workshop in NYC. He has shaken up the pastry world with his creativity and innovation, with iconic ...

The Bûche de Noël, or Yule log cake, is a traditional French dessert served during Christmas that dates back to the 19th century. The cake is meant to resemble the large yule log that families would ...

When we leave work in December, many of us plug in the holiday lights when we get home to brighten the early darkness. We light icicle lights that drip from the roofline or bright-colored bulbs that ...

Buche de Noel, the classic roulade swathed in chocolate icing too often starts with an airy roulade and is more about the frosting than the cake. But the one created by Michelle Myers, chef-owner of ...

For Paul and Marcia Masse, Christmas began in July. That's when their busy Berkeley bakery, Masse's, received its first call about a buche de Noel. Never mind that Christmas was still months away, or ...

Making this bûche de Noël is not for the faint of heart. It has four elements: chocolate sponge cake and a rich chestnut mousse filling for the Yule log base, silky dark chocolate buttercream for the ...

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