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1/4 cup butter

3/4 cup fine sugar

3 eggs, separated

2/3 cup sifted all-purpose flour

1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1-3/4 cups graham wafers, finely rolled

3/4 cup buttermilk or sour milk

Line a 10 x 15-inch jelly roll pan with waxed paper. Do not grease. Cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and beat well. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately to creamed mixture with milk. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and wafer crumbs. Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes. Turn out immediately onto a damp towel liberally sprinkled with fine sugar.

Carefully remove waxed paper, trim crusts. Roll cake up along narrow edge. When cool, partially unroll, then fill and frost with lemon flavored whipped cream. Chocolate frosting can be substituted for the whipped cream. Delicious either way.

This is the recipe I use for my yule log cakes. I like to fill it with whipped cream with peppermint flavoring and crushed candy canes in it. Ice with chocolate fudge or buttercream which has been colored with brown color...or gray (birch).

JELLY ROLL CAKE

4 eggs, separated

3/4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla

3/4 cup cake flour, sifted

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Confectioners' sugar, for dusting, sifted

1 cup jam or jelly, stirred well

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a small bowl beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and set aside. In another bowl, beat the egg yolks until light. Gradually add the sugar and vanilla, and mix well. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the sifted flour mixture to the egg yolk mixture. Fold in the egg whites into the egg mixture and pour the batter into a 15 by 10 by 1-inch jelly roll pan lined with waxed paper. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the cake is golden.

Loosen edges of cake, invert cake onto a towel dusted with confectioners' sugar. Gently peel wax paper off cake. Trim 1/4-inch of hard crust off each long side of the jelly roll cake. Begin with the narrow side and roll the cake and towel up together. Cool cake on rack, seam side down, for 10 to 15 minutes.

Once cake has cooled, gently unroll and spread cake with jam or jelly and re-roll.

This is a photo of my finished yule log. The mushrooms are meringue.

http://www.cakegenie.com/holidays/closeup/yulelog....

Gininger Bread Yule Log

1/2 c. flour

1 tsp. ginger

1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. cocoa

1/4 tsp. ground cloves

1 tsp. espresso granules ( or strong instant coffee granules )

1 tsp. vanilla

4 eggs

2/3 c. sugar

1/2 c. molasses

pinch of cream of tartar

Mix togeether flour , spices and cocoa . dissolve coffee in vanilla . Separate eggs into 2 bowls . Beat yolks with 1/3 c. of sugar until thick , about 4 min. Stir in molasses , vanilla / coffee and dry mix . Beat egg whites until foamy ; gradually beat in 1/3 c. sugar . Beat until whites are stiff . Fold into batter . Pour into jellyroll pan lined with wax paper . Bake at 350 for 15 - 17 min. Let cool 10 min . ; remove cake from pan , peel off wax paper and place on cloth dusted with powder sugar and roll like jelly roll and place seem side down . Prepare coffee cream .

Coffee Cream Filling

4 tsp. coffee granules

1 tbsp. vanilla

8 oz. cream cheese , softened

1 c. 10 x sugar ( powdered )

1 1/2 c. heavy cream

Dissolve coffee in vanilla . Beat in cream cheese and sugar . In another bowl beat cream until it holds soft peaks . fold into cheese mix . Evenly spread over cake to within 1/2 inch of edges ; then roll up tightly . Cill cake seam side down for 10 min. Chill extra cream . Transfer cake to a platter . Spread with a thin layer of cream over entire log . Use thick strokes with a icing spatula to resemble bark ( in other words go end to end crossing on occaision and it will look just like tree bark )Refrigerate 2 - 6 hours .

the 1st recipe indexed is a common chocolate cake rolled interior the form of a log. particularly confusing to do. the 2d is something distinctive and actually ordinary. this is those chocolate wafer cookies and whipped cream. while they have been interior the refrigerator for a jointly as, the cookies soften as much as be like cake. this is truly yummy.