2 Peas In A Pod Blog: Chocolate Log Recipe

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Hello and welcome back to our blog, its Jade here. Tonight’s blogmas post is a recipe. You will know by now we love a good Christmas recipe. So what’s better than a chocolate log? It’s a tradition in my family that at Christmas we have a Christmas pudding for the adults and chocolate log for the children. I still class myself as a child as I go for the chocolate log. Each year we buy a chocolate Swiss roll and I make the butter cream icing myself and decorate it myself. However, this year I thought I would make the chocolate log from scratch. So here goes.

To make this recipe you will need:

· 4 large eggs

· 100g Caster Sugar

· 65g Self- Raising Flour

· 40g Cocoa Powder

For The Icing:

· 175 grams dark chocolate (chopped)

· 250 grams icing sugar

· 225 grams soft butter

· 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

So firstly you are going to want to preheat the oven to 200ºC / gas mark 6.

Then lightly grease a 33 × 23 cm Swiss roll tin, and line with non-stick paper or baking paper.

Then whisk the eggs and sugar using an electric hand whisk in a large bowl until the mixture is pale in colour.

Now sift the flour and cocoa powder into the bowl and carefully fold together, using a metal spoon, until all the cocoa and flour are incorporated into the egg mixture.

Pour the mixture into the lined tin and spread evenly out into the corners.

Bake in the middle of the preheated oven for eight to 10 minutes until the sponge is springy and baked the whole way through.

(Wow can you see the steem coming off the cake?)

Place a piece of baking paper bigger than the Swiss roll on the work surface. Move the cake on to the paper and remove the bottom lining piece of paper.

Trim the edges of the cake with a sharp knife and make a score mark 2.5 cm in along the longer edge.

Whilst the cake is cooling you will want to create the icing.

To make the icing, melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water.

Then put the icing sugar into a large bowl and add the butter and hand whisk until smooth. Then add the melted chocolate once it’s cool. Then add the vanilla extract. Whisk it until it is all combined together.

Then spread some of the icing thinly over the cake. Make sure it isn’t too thick so it doesn’t seep out the edges. Then start rolling from the side that is facing you. Press against the baking paper rather than the cake so it’s easier.

Then with the rest of the icing that you have left spread it over the chocolate log. Grab a fork and make wood like textures across it to make it more authentic. Also do circles at the end of the logs to create the tree rings. Then sift some icing sugar on top to create a fallen snow effect.

You can add decorations on the top like I have to create a more festive log.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post as much as I have had creating it. It is also Christmas Day tomorrow so I hope you have a magical day. Myself and Lydia wish you a Merry Christmas and hope you get some lovely gifts. There is a blogmas blog post going live tomorrow so be sure to check that out. After that there will not be any more blog posts until the following Tuesday. So everything will resume back to normality.

Hope you all have an amazing Christmas.

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Jade Xx

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