One of the best recipes for tasty Christmas cakes, this Christmas Log Cake Recipe is easy to make.

Christmas Log Cake

• 1 cup - Cake Flour (sifted)
• ¼ tsp - Salt
• 1 tsp - Baking Powder
• 4 - Eggs
• 1 cup - Sugar
• ¼ cup - Water
• 1 tbsp - Lemon Juice

• 2 - Egg Whites (separated)
• ¼ cup - Cream of Tartar
• ¼ cup - Sugar
• Cocoa (powdered)

• 1 cup - Butter (sweet and softened)
• 3 - Egg Yoke (separated)

• 1 tbsp - Espresso (powdered)
• 1 tbsp - Milk
• 3 cup - Confectioners' Sugar (sifted)
• Green Food Coloring

• Grease a jellyroll-baking sheet.
• Line with parchment paper.
• Grease the parchment paper.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Beat eggs at high speed about 5 to 10 minutes.
• Add sugar by tablespoonfuls.
• Continue beating until the butter is very thick.
• Then add lemon juice and water.
• Fold in dry ingredients in four stages - ¼ cup at a time.
• Spread evenly on the baking sheet.
• Bake at 375 oF for 15 minutes.
• Sift powdered sugar onto the sponge.
• Turn cake out onto a clean tea towel.
• Remove parchment paper.
• Trim edges of the sponge if they are crispy.
• Roll up gently, leaving towel inside, while still warm.
• Let cool.
• Beat egg whites and when foamy, add the cream of tartar.
• When soft peaks form, gradually beat in the sugar.
• Beat until meringue is stiff and glossy.
• Pipe meringue through a pastry bag, making and equal number of stems and caps to resemble small mushrooms.
• Bake mushroom pieces at 250 oF for about 45 minutes.
• When cool, glue them together with butter cream icing and dust lightly with cocoa in a fine strainer.
• Beat egg yolks and butter together until smooth.
• Add coffee and milk and gradually add powdered sugar.
• Beat until smooth.
• Mix about 1/3 cup to ½ cup of the frosting with green food coloring for the ivy decoration.

• Unroll cooled sponge.
• Remove towel.
• Spread the cake with butter cream icing.
• Roll up.
• Cut off at a diagonal 2" slice.
• This is the tree stump.
• Frost the outside, then add the stump and frost.
• Make ivy patterns.
• Add the mushrooms.
• Dust the whole cake very lightly with powdered sugar to give the effect of snow.
• Keep in refrigerator.
• Cut with serrated knife.