Sarson’s Yule Log Recipe

Serves
4 - 6
Prep time
20 minutes
Cook time
40 minutes

Adding a splash of vinegar to a chocolate cake recipe not only helps to make the sponge extra light and fluffy but it really brings out the chocolate flavour of the cocoa powder too. That's why we love adding a tablespoon of Sarson's Distilled Malt Vinegar to our Yule Log recipe at Christmas!

Made using Distilled Malt Vinegar

Ingredients

For the cake

  • For the cake:
  • 1 tbsp Sarson’s Distilled Malt Vinegar
  • 70g cocoa powder
  • 75g plain flour
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 1tsp bicarbonate soda
  • 4 large eggs, whisked

For the ganache

  • 500g dark chocolate, at least 70%, finely chopped
  • 500ml double cream

For the filling

  • 500g chocolate ganache
  • 300ml double cream, whipped

Method

  1. For the cake, preheat your oven to 180C. Combine the wet ingredients then sift in the dry ingredients. Fold until you have a smooth cake batter. Spread onto a lined baking tray and bake for 40 minutes or until you can cleanly remove a tooth pick. Leave to cool.
  2. For ganache, pour the warm cream over the chocolate and stir until you have a smooth, glossy ganache.
  3. For the filling, take half the ganache and fold in the whipped cream.
  4. Roll the cake and then unroll and spread on the filling. Roll again into a log shape. Slice off a piece to form the log's branch. Cover the log with the ganache. Decorate and enjoy!