Merry Christmas everybody.

Hope you all are enjoying your holidays with family and loved ones.

Well today we had Mansaf for lunch but unusually dessert wasn’t Knafeh as usual, since it’s Christmas and my brother’s birthday is after tomorrow i decided to bake a lovely Buche de Noel or Yule Log as some call it.

After a quick search in several pages I did my own version, same ingredients of Cherry Cake but added cocoa powder and omitted the lemon juice, turned out really good.

Ingredients and method:

* 5 eggs ( used 6 cause they were small)

*  1 cup sugar.

* lemon zest,vanilla and 2 tsp baking powder.

* 1/4 cup vegetable oil.

* 1/2 cup cocoa.

* 1 cup flour.

* whipping cream.

* any kind of filling you like like coconuts,crunch,strawberries,blueberries…e

* Separate eggs whites from yolks and beat well till stiff and white.

* beat all other ingredients well till creamy.

* fold in the egg whites slowly till all mixed together.

* pour  in a  greased rectangular baking tray ,cake layer must be thin.

* bake in a medium hot oven for 30-35 minutes.

* while still warm flip the cake on a clean kitchen towel sprinkled with icing sugar then roll it and leave to cool.

*unfold cake then fill with cream and blueberries like i did today then roll it back.

* now cut ends and put it alongside the roll so as to look like a bark

* top it with cream and leave to cool

Now make some gananche ( half cup of heated heavy cream with half cup of chocolate chips ) put it on top of the roll and make lines .

* Decorate with icing sugar and any Christmas decorations available.