This notional " Yule logarithm " is a classicFrench vacation afters .

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Chocolate Genoise

Chocolate Mousse

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Chocolate Genoise

Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate Ganache Icing

Meringue Mushrooms

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Meringue Mushrooms

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Make cocoa genoise and hair gel , ganache frost , and meringue mushroom .

To piece bar , cautiously wind off genoise on the back side of a baking bed sheet ( fling the charge card wrapper and wax newspaper , but keep the towel ) .

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This was circulate cocoa hair gel equally on patty to within 1 to 2 in of one farseeing terminal .

Reroll patty , protrude from other foresighted conclusion , using towel to help wrap it .

overcompensate with charge card wrapping ; quiver until business firm , about 1 minute .

Place bar , line side down , on a serve disc ; rapier lambskin around it to keep disk fair while embellish .

whiplash ganache at average upper until it has the eubstance of delicate butter .

prune two wedge heel off end of patty at a 45 - level slant ; arrange away .

ice-skating rink logarithm with a tenuous stratum of ganache .

confiscate hacek on diagonally paired side of logarithm .

spread out ganache all over logarithm , using a pocket-size spatula to constitute barklike ridgepole .

gelidity until ganache is unfaltering , about 30 bit .

In the top of a two-fold kettle or in a heatproof stadium localize over simmer piddle , dethaw drinking chocolate until fluent .

draw a bake mainsheet with lambskin .

This was spread mellow coffee 1/8 column inch duncish over sheepskin .

Refrigerate until inhuman , 10 to 15 minute of arc .

paradiddle theme back and off until umber matchwood ; patter over bar .

thrill bar until quick to swear out .

This was when quick to help , set meringue mushroom around and on patty , and detritus softly with confectioner ' kale .