Chestnut Yule Log
Chestnuts and Chocolate just scream Christmas. Go ahead and make your own Chestnut Yule Log. You'll never taste anything better.
Ingredients
- 1 pound chestnuts, peeled
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 6 ounce unsweetened chocolate
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoon rum or brandy (aprox)
- 3 ounce almond paste or marzipan
- 2 tablespoon icing sugar
- 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (aprox)
- 1 cup whipping cream
- meringue mushrooms for garnish
- chocolate curls
Instructions
- In pan, cover peeled chestnuts with cold water.
- Bring to boil and simmer until chestnuts are very soft, about 40 minutes.
- Drain, press through food mill or seive.
- In mixing bowl, beat egg yolks until light and fluffy.
- Add granulated sugar and beat until very thick.
- Melt together chocolate and butter and beat into egg yolk mixture.
- Beat in chestnut puree.
- Stir in rum, adding more to taste if desired.
- Chill until mixture is firm enough to shape, about 2 hours.
- Shape into log, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Cut ends of log on the diagonal and use short ends to simulate lopped off branches.
- Cover cut ends with thin rounds of almond paste.
- Fold icing sugar and cocoa into whipped cream, adding more cocoa if darker "bark" is desired.
- Spread cream over log and use tines of fork to simulate bark.
- Decorate with Meringue Mushrooms and chocolate curls.
- Chill until serving time.