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Immediately loosen the sides and turn the cake out onto a lint-free towel that has been sprinkled with
flour or powdered sugar. Starting at the narrow edge, roll the cake and the towel up together. When
cool, unroll and remove the towel. Completely cover the upper surface with the whipped cream. We
like to add shreds of chocolate, but this is optional.
Re-roll the cake. Now you have a brown and white spiraled "log". Place it on the serving tray or plate to
ice it because you won't be able to move it to another server once it has been iced. Spread the chocolate
icing over the surface of the cake, don't worry about it being even.
After the surface is covered, take a fork to make short,wavy patterns coming the entire surface to give a
log like texture.
If you want, garnish the center with small pine trimmings or cones (clean ones...)
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Easy Yule Log Cake
1 package commercial cake mix, preferably chocolate
2 cans (24 oz.) pre-made frosting in a dark brown color
Several tubes of cake decoration frosting in green, white, and red
Several toothpicks
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and line a jelly roll pan with waxed paper. Mix the cake according
to package instructions and pour a thin layer -- no more than 1/4-inch thick -- into the prepared jelly roll
pan. Bake the cake until just underdone. If you can't tell by looking, then use the knife test. When the
knife emerges not quite clean from the center of the cake, and when a light touch does not bounce back
easily, it needs to come out. Check the cake at 7 minutes, and then every 2 minutes past that.
DO NOT overbake or the cake will be hard to work with. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool
slightly.
Remove the cake from the pan by lifting out the wax paper. With the dark frosting, coat the top of the
cake. Carefully lift one end of the cake and begin rolling it up as if you were rolling up a map. When
you are done, anchor the cake with toothpicks and let it cook 5 more minutes. Let it cool for 30
minutes, then frost it with the dark brown icing. Next take the tubes of icing and make holly and
mistletoe on the top. To finish, use toothpicks to etch lines in the log. You can decorate with artificial
greenery until time to eat.
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Winter Solstice Lemon Shortbread
1 cup butter, softened, not melted.
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup and 2 Tablespoons sugar
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