🍫🍊 Chocolate, Orange, and Macadamia Buche De Noel Recipe 🍊🍫
🕒 Total Time: 15 hours
🍽 Servings: NaN
🍲 Category: Dessert
🔍 Keywords: Christmas, Oven
🌟 Rating: 5 ⭐️ (1 Review)
Description:
Originally featured in Gourmet Magazine’s “Cooking School,” this Chocolate, Orange, and Macadamia Buche De Noel is a delightful dessert that may take an enthusiastic amateur the better part of a day to create, but the resulting masterpiece is undoubtedly well worth the time investment!
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup sugar (for buttercreams)
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups butter
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar (for buttercreams)
- 5 yolks
- 6 tablespoons orange liqueur
- 2 1/4 cups chocolate
- 4 1/2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
- 4 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup macadamias
- 2 tablespoons cocoa
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar (for meringue mushrooms)
Instructions:
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Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 400°F and line a jelly roll pan with wax paper.
- Beat eggs, yolk, and sugar at medium speed until stiff peaks form.
- Sift in flour and cocoa.
- Add orange peel and gently fold together.
- Spread batter evenly in the prepared pan.
- Bake until the cake is springy to the touch and begins to pull from the sides, about 7 minutes.
- Cut around edges to free the cake, turn out onto a work surface, and let it cool.
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Buttercreams:
- Bring sugar and water to a boil in a heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Continue boiling without stirring until the thermometer registers 240°F (soft ball stage).
- Beat yolks until thickened.
- Add liqueur; gradually beat in hot syrup.
- Continue beating until cool, about 5 minutes.
- Add butter 3 tablespoons at a time, beating after each addition.
- Mix in orange juice concentrate.
- Transfer 3 1/4 cups of buttercream to a small bowl; mix chocolate into the remaining.
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Assembly:
- Invert the cake onto a sheet of plastic wrap, carefully remove the paper.
- Spread orange buttercream over the cake, leaving a 1-inch border on one long side.
- Sprinkle with macadamias.
- Roll up jelly roll fashion, starting with the long side and rolling toward the side with the uncovered border.
- Trim to make ends even.
- Cut 2 inches off each end of the roll at a 45-degree angle.
- Transfer the roll to a platter using plastic as an aid and arranging seam side down.
- Spread some chocolate buttercream on cut ends of 2-inch sides.
- With buttercream touching the cake, place one piece atop the cake off-center and the second on one long side to resemble tree stumps.
- Transfer 1 cup of chocolate buttercream to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch plain tip.
- Spread the remaining buttercream over the cake.
- Pipe buttercream in spirals on ends of the buche and stumps, starting at the center of each.
- Run fork tines through buttercream to simulate bark.
- Arrange holly and cranberries decoratively on the buche.
- Garnish with Meringue Mushrooms right before serving.
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Meringue Mushrooms:
- Preheat the oven to 150°F and line a baking sheet with wax paper.
- Beat whites and a pinch of salt for 1 minute to blend.
- Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons powdered sugar.
- Add to whites in 3 additions, beating for 20 seconds after each.
- Continue beating until meringue is stiff and glossy.
- Transfer the mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip.
- Pipe about fifteen 1/2 to 1-inch domed rounds on the prepared sheet for mushroom caps.
- Smooth the top of each with a damp finger.
- Pipe about fifteen 1/2 to 1-inch high peaked mounds on prepared sheets for stems.
- Bake until meringues are dry and beginning to color, about 1 3/4 hours.
- Let them cool completely.
- Using a small knife, cut a small hole in the bottom of each mushroom cap.
- Dip the peaked end of the stem in sugar paste and push it into the hole in the mushroom cap.
- Repeat with remaining caps.
- Dust mushrooms with cocoa powder before serving.
Now, enjoy the fruits of your labor – a visually stunning and delectable Chocolate, Orange, and Macadamia Buche De Noel that’s sure to be the highlight of your festive celebrations! 🎄🍫🍰
