In Good Taste: Hands on Buche de Noel

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In Good Taste Cooking School
located in the Pearl District, Portland, Oregon.
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Hands On Traditional Bûche de Noël

Decorate your own Bûche de Noël (chocolate log cake) to take home with chef Ericka Carlson as your guide.

This classic French Christmas dessert, the Yule Log cake, traces its origins back into ancient Celt times. During the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, the Celts would burn a Yule log to celebrate the returning of the longer days of the sun. In the mid 19^th century, French bakers started making elaborate cake versions of this log and the Bûche de Noël tradition began. Our version is a rich, sumptuous chocolate cake, rolled and filled with a luscious Tahitian vanilla cream and coated in decadent bittersweet chocolate frosting. We’ll make the cake ahead of time so all you need to do is roll it up and decorate it. You’ll make many traditional decorations such as meringue mushrooms, marzipan holly leaves and berries, and snowy rosemary branches. Come join us and start a new holiday tradition of your own.

You will take home own your own mini Bûche de Noël at the end of the class.

Chocolate Yule Log Cake

With a rich Tahitian vanilla cream and bittersweet chocolate frosting

Marzipan Holly Leaves and Berries

Meringue Mushrooms

Snowy Cranberries and Rosemary Branches

Instructor: Ericka L. Carlson

Date: Wednesday, December 6 at 6:30 pm

Fee: $90

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