How to round Christmas dinner? True, you can bring to the table pandoro and panettoneNot forget chocolate and nougatAs well as. But nothing’s stopping you bring the cake to the table too. Let’s go discover together the most beautiful Christmas cakesable enrich the table with their presence and do it immediately make your mouth water.

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French patisserie Christmas cakes, log

Christmas log this is traditional french recipe ideal for rounding Christmas dinner. it’s not alone greedyis undoubtedly also one of the more scenographic christmas cakesperfect for those who want complete the festive equipment in the best possible way.

Ingredients for 10 people.

• 100 g flour 00
• 5 eggs
• 140 g sugar
• 10 g honey
• Salt to taste
• vanilla pod
• 300 g liquid fresh cream
• 300 g dark chocolate 55%
• Powdered sugar to taste

Separate the yolks from the whites. Whisk the yolks with electric beaters together with 90 sugarto a pinch saltin vanilla and etc. honey. When the mixture becomes very clear and frothy, switch to work on albums. They must be processed along with the remaining sugar, In the snow. Using a spatula, combine the resulting compositions. Add flour and stir in slowly. Place sheet of parchment paper on a pallet. Put the dough on the paper and flatten. It is important that the thickness is about 6-7 centimeters. cook in static oven at 220°C approx. 7 minutesin. Delete cookie dough from a pallet, with all the parchment paper. Place directly into the oven on the surface so it can cool. Printing from movie and leave to cool.

In the meantime, prepare Ganache Chocolate. Obviously this is only one version, in fact one can also use pastry cream or another cream of your choice. Chop up the chocolate. Bring cream boil, add chocolate chop, turn off the stove and mix with a whisk. Pour the cream into a small bowl and insert it into a large bowl where you have added some ice. Using electric beatersbeat the ganache for ten minutes. Delete cookie dough from the film and remove it from the parchment paper. Fill half of the cookie dough with ganache. Roll up cookie dough in a delicate way. Close the ends. Leave in the refrigerator for an hour to completely harden. Cool it down too extended ganache which you will use for decoration. Spread the remaining ganache on the cake and try to create classic signs of a wooden branchso you get perfect christmas tree. A little powdered sugar will allow you to get snow log, really impressive.

Simple New Year cakes with biscuit

We must admit that Christmas log it is not very easy to do and not everyone wants to have so much cooking continue right there christmas morningwhen all the burners are already occupied and most likely the oven too. What to do? There is a couple of basic baking recipes which we can put into play, biscuit recipe and what of mascarpone cream. Yes one Mascarpone Christmas Cake it’s just what you need, a versatile cream that everyone loves.

Biscuit Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 150 g sugar
• vanilla pod
• 75 g flour 00
• 75 g potato starch
• Salt to taste

Crack the eggs into a bowl planetarium. engrave vanilla pod, extract the seeds and add them to the eggs along with a pinch of fine salt. Turn on the planetarium. Make it work for about 15 minutes at medium speedadding it little by little sugar. After this time, add flour and starch properly screened. Mix the egg powder by hand using putty knife and do movements from bottom to top.

Oil one die, best from 24cm in diameter. Pour the mixture into the mold and smooth the surface. cook in static oven at 160°C for 50 minutes. Check the readiness of the biscuit with one toothpick right in the center of the cake. It must be completely dry. Before take the cake out of the mold good to let it cool down. It is better to fill it so that it is completely cold.

We recommend one as a filling. classic cream with mascarpone. Ingredients needed to get the right amount of cream for filling this cake:

• 250 g mascarpone
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons of sugar

The preparation is simple and fast. Beat the yolks with sugar. Then add mascarpone cheese and mix until you get one homogeneous cream. Leave to rest in the refrigerator before fill the cake. Alternatively, eggs can be omitted. The cream will be a little less rich, but still tasty and delicious. Of course, nothing prevents you from adding some other ingredients to make the cream more delicious, such as dark chocolate chips or strawberries. It remains only to decorate.

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Decorate Christmas Cakes

If you are looking for simple christmas cookieswe recommend using whipped cream. What Christmas cream cake decorations? You can create multiple small puffs of whipped cream all over the caketo make it look real snow landscape. All you have to do is add some red berries That’s all. As an alternative, it is possible create decorated christmas cakes purchase sugar paste I’m ready now. Can cover the cake white or red sugar paste. Then cut seedling from green sugar paste and a little eggs from red sugar paste. Collect everything, you will see what result. Christmas cupcakes decorated with sugar paste ready-made they are beautiful, full of attractiveness, but at the same time very simple and quick to prepare even if you are not gods cake designer experienced, exactly what you need for christmas morning.

Christmas cakes, how to cook them

Have you ever seen some Christmas cakes in the bakery made only in christmas tree shape? You can make them too just by buying one wood shaped mold. We advise you to follow the biscuit recipe above, but nothing stops you from trying it. create more recipesmaybe the ones you usually do and which you are sure you actually get Great. One is fine too. chocolate cake obviously. If you prefer something simpler, prepare any cake and cut it into pieces. slices are triangles, Correctly? Ideal form for presentation seedling. All you have to do is decorate them and add a stick of red and white sugar. That’s all in this way the cake pieces turn into many small trees bring to the table.

But how to do Christmas decorations for cakes? Also in this case, you can use cream or sugar paste. In addition, you can find them directly in the supermarket. Sugar decorations for Christmas or in the shape of a snowflake. it is also possible decorate the Christmas tree with round or star candywhich should be placed in the same way as if they were Christmas decorations.

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