It looks like a log, has a soft cocoa wrap and a cream that encloses the typical flavors of the holidays: chocolate, cinnamon, star anise, mandarin … Among the Christmas sweets this roll cannot be missing!
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The recipe for the Christmas sweet roll
Ingredients for 12 people
For the cream
360 g white chocolate
200 g cream – 150 g Greek yogurt
star anise – cardamom
cinnamon stick
tangerine
For the roll
185 g granulated sugar
100 g flour – 35 g cocoa powder
5 eggs – 2 yolks
butter – powdered sugar
chocolate flakes
cherries in alcohol – salt
Method
For the cream
Heat the cream with 2 anise stars, a piece of cinnamon, 4 grains of cardamom and the zest of 1/2 mandarin. Turn off a little
before boiling.
Chop the white chocolate, pour the cream, filter it, and mix until creamy; after a couple of minutes add the yogurt and let the cream rest in the fridge for 10 hours.
For the roll
Line a rectangular plate (30 × 40 cm) with baking paper; grease and flour the paper.
Mix the flour with the cocoa. Beat 5 egg whites with a pinch of salt, then add 75 g of sugar. Mix 7 egg yolks with 110 g of granulated sugar with an electric whisk; add the cocoa flour, sifting it, then also incorporate the whipped egg whites, stirring gently.
Spread the mixture thus obtained in the pan, so as to create a uniform layer of just under 1 cm thick. Bake at 180 ° C for 9-10 minutes.
Remove the pan, turn it over with all the dough on a sheet sprinkled with powdered sugar and let it cool down.
Turn out the cocoa rectangle, spread the cream on it and roll it up on the long side, using the baking paper. Close the roll by wrapping the ends of the paper like
of candy. Leave to cool in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Finally, unwrap the roll, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, decorate it with chocolate flakes and cherries in alcohol and serve.
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