Thursday, January 24, 2013

buche de noel



Would you look at that gorgeous thing! Possibly the most impressive cake ever. This is from the Dec 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge. I made it FOUR times over the Christmas period - 2 were for dinner parties, and 2 were given away as presents.
Layers from top to bottom: dark chocolate glaze, dark chocolate mousse, coffee creme brulee, praline feuilletine layer, caramel ganache, almond/hazelnut dacquoise.

This wasn't that difficult since these are all pretty standard entremet elements. But doing six of them at one go was no joke. AND it took me ages and ages to find the mould - I must have gone to almost every bakery supplies store in Singapore before I finally found it.