Bûche de Noël - chez moi

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMlSHkLarpffHjNN8DX0YWO9Di8QrGJICwZ7or-I2UMKPyLIMcB6lgEg1hyphenhyphenp7cB5ZlTclWSxJxJeOrKn0PPtfZ6zo1qOEGPx7kc8E1Aked6DP43x3NF9HAXoPlaSZ8Qw693BXJywZPAdE/s1600/2013+1222++222+DSC_4116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMlSHkLarpffHjNN8DX0YWO9Di8QrGJICwZ7or-I2UMKPyLIMcB6lgEg1hyphenhyphenp7cB5ZlTclWSxJxJeOrKn0PPtfZ6zo1qOEGPx7kc8E1Aked6DP43x3NF9HAXoPlaSZ8Qw693BXJywZPAdE/s640/2013+1222++222+DSC_4116.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Bûche de Noël</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"yule log"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Adopting another French tradition, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">we welcome Christmas with a bûche de Noël.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Using a recipe inspired by the celebrated Paris pastry shop Ladurée, the <i>bûche</i> consists of a buttercream icing, a <i>roulade</i> of fine bittersweet chocolate, and a filling of rich semisweet chocolate.  The humidity and rainstorms steered us to marzipan rather than our preferred meringue mushrooms.  Here is a <a href="http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Buche-de-Noel" target="_blank">recipe in English</a> and another <a href="http://cuisine.journaldesfemmes.com/recette/305309-buche-de-noel" target="_blank">here in French</a>.  We used the English recipe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This confection was a collaboration of daughter Holly, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">visiting French girl, and moi.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">...sending you Christmas wishes </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(still have to make Jesus' birthday cake)</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beyond </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Bûche de Noël - chez moi

Bûche de Noël "yule log" Adopting another French tradition,  we welcome Christmas with a bûche de Noël. Using a recipe inspired by...

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