Making a Yule Log
Cake with Pastry Chef
Jean François Houdré, Chef at Sutton Place
Hotel in Newport Beach, CA
Text by Cheri Sicard, Fabulousfoods.com
Photos by Mitch Mandell, Fabulousfoods.com
The Artist's Touch
Jean François is known for the artistry of his desserts. To decorate his Yule Log Cake, he pulled out all the stops, adorning it with marbled chocolate oranments, spun sugar ribbons and playful meringue mushrooms.
To begin assembling the final dessert, Jean François carefully transferred the iced cake to a marble slab. Occupying the corner of this edible sculpture was an exquisite chocolate Christmas tree, decorated with delicate gossamer threads of white chocolate and surrounded with intricate packages made of marzipan.
Chocolate holly leaves with hazelnut "berries", marzipan holly, star cookies, and an edible chocolate greeting finish the picture.
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