Buche de Noel Moka

meal traditional recipe

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Traditional Christmas dessert, with a coffee twist.

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Ingredients

• Get the butter out, one hour before starting.

Ingredients Sponge Cake

• 100 gr of sugar
• 100 gr of flour
• 5 eggs
• 1 Bag of Vanilla Sugar
• parchment paper

Ingredients Moka Butter Cream

• 100 gr of sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• 250 gr of unsalted butter (2 sticks)
• 100 gr of 70% Cocoa Black Chocolate
• 1 small strong expresso (about 2 tbsp)

Method

Method Sponge Cake

1. pre-heat the oven at 400 F
2. split 4 egg yolks, keep the whites
3. Beat the egg whites (oeuf en neige)
4. Mix the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla sugar together
5. Add the last egg (whole)
6. Add the flour bits by bits
7. Fold in the egg white (careful)
8. Lay some parchment paper on a baking sheet and butter it slightly
9. Now draw a rectangle with the dough, roughly 45 cmx 25 cm
10. Insert the dough into the oven and cook for 10 minutes
11. Take the cake out, turn it over on a board and cover with a towel

Method Moka Cream

1. Break your chocolate in small piece and melt it over a double-boiler (chocolate has a tendency to burn)
2. Let it cool a tad
3. Place the sugar in a pan, add the expresso and heat a tad to dissolve the sugar
4. Let the sugar cool a bit, then incorporate with the egg yolks (start with just a tiny bit into the egg, mix then add more slowl)
5. Now mix the butter (to obtain a cream/pommade), pour into the butter the egg/sugar mixture
6. Mix until it is smooth

Method Buche Assembly

1. Separate the cream into 2 portions: 1/3 and 2/3.

2. Mix the cooled chocolate into the smaller of the portion

3. remove the towel and parchment paper from the cake

4. Layout the moka cream onto the cake

5. Roll the cake (you can pick the side you want to roll it,either long/thin or short/think)

6. Make sure to place the seam on the bottom

7. Cut each side of the roll, set aside for later

8. Now get your chocolate cream and paint your Buche

9. Place the two sides on top (their are suppose to be knots in the branch…)

10. Refrigerate

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Traditional
Serve	8
Preparation Time	30 mn
Cooking Time	10 mn
Temperature
Authors	Pascal Crausaz
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