Fermez la bûche
photo by la tartine gourmande
As promised, here is my favourite holiday dessert of all time: the Bûche de Noël. Though the traditional yule log cake usually has brown bark and is frequently topped with (this is the best part!) an army of cute little meringue mushrooms, I’ve also seen them decorated to look like branches of birch trees, or given a more delicate floral theme like the one above. Cute!
What’s your favourite December holiday dessert?
I love the floaty-looking leaves! How lovely. Mm, looks like pistachio filling!
I don’t know what you meant by “fermez la bûche” but it translates as “close the log”…. I’m not sure its what you meant.
It looks amazingly delicious though!
I have to do this school thing about holiday traditions in france, and i totally forgot about the Bûche de Noël until I looked at this
thx!
m-c — It was a play on words with “fermez la bouche.” :p
— We used to have to bake those every year in my French class! Ah, the memories!
That is gorgeous! I bet it tastes as good as it looks!
It looks a lot like what we call swiss roll/log – Chocolate sponge filled with mock/real cream. Yummy anytime of the year
This could be something else entirely though
Hee hee, “Fermez la bûche.” This looks so yummy!
Oops, meant to add that I once did a variation of this with white cake and a strawberry filling. Really good!
As for desserts, I’m not a huge dessert eater, but I did like the various Norwegian treats my grandmother used to make. I guess we more or less snacked on those on Christmas Eve and they were not really “dessert.”
That looks so beautiful and tasty!
I’m just happy with some flavored coffee and a peppermint stick.
this looks way more delicious than the ones Swiss Colony sells. theirs have some wierd chocolate racoon faces on the end.
my favorite holiday dessert is pie… but not just any pie. i have to go wild and make some kind of overly complicated pie that i get scared to finish half way through. like a french silk pie. i thought i was gonna faint half way through that one, but my niece told me it was the best pie she’d ever eaten.
and now that i’m finished ranting about my obsession, i must go find some dessert. epicute, you’ve made me hungry. as always.
My grandmother and most of my family are pagan or wiccan, so we have a yule party every year. one of the guests who always attended (before she moved:( ) would make one of these, except, it looked twenty times more realistic than this one.(though it is still beautiful and tasty looking) it had moss, and twigs and those adorable and delicious meringue mushrooms you mentioned all over it.
best of all, everything on it was homemade!
i love holiday food<3
Oh geeze, favourite dessert? I don’t know! I do have an unabiding love for Candy Canes, but those are more of a snack than a dessert to me.
I admit I have a love for spice cake though. The smells and flavours seem to embody everything about Christmas to me and I’m hoping to make it a tradition in my family.
In Sweden we call this a (direct translation) rolecake and eat it like every time we visit our grandparents. Old people really like to bake this stuff :p
Meant rollcake
Me and my family are Lebanese, and we usually make middle eastern food for Thanksgiving/Christmas rather than the usual. My favorite dessert ever for the holidays is a tie between the breakfast/dessert thing called Zlebia(raised, fried bread dough that we cover in sugar), and Baklava!
The Buche is our favorite Christmas dessert. Gotta make them every year!