Christmas log with two Escuminac syrups
INGREDIENTS
- CAKE
- 2 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup Escuminac Late Harvest maple syrup
- 1/4 cup hot milk
- ICING:
- 4 cups icing sugar
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 5 tablespoons Escuminac Late Harvest maple syrup
- 3 tablespoon cream 35% or Whipping Cream or Heavy Whipping Cream”
- MERINGUES
- 2 egg whites
- 2 1/2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 tablespoon Escuminac Very Dark maple syrup
- MAPLE SYRUP PLATES
- 1 cup of Escuminac Late Harvest maple syrup
PREPARATION
- CAKE
- Heat your oven at 350 F. (175 C.)
- Grease a cookie mold (17 x 11) and line with waxed paper
- Sift together the first 3 ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt)
- Whisk together the eggs, sugar and maple syrup until thick (lemon colored) (about 5 minutes) and add hot milk. Pour in the dry ingredients and mix well. Verser dans le moule et cuire jusqu’à doré (environ 12-15 minutes).
- Pour into the pan and cook until golden (about 12-15 minutes).
- Generously sprinkle a cloth with icing sugar and unmold the hot cake on the cloth, roll up and let cool completely.
- 8.ICING:
- Beat icing sugar, butter and maple syrup until smooth. Add the cream, a tablespoon at a time, until the desired consistency is reached
- MERINGUES
- Beat all ingredients until stiff peaks form.
- Form the meringues using a pastry bag about 2-3 cm in diameter
- Bake at 300 F for one hour. After 60 minutes, turn off the oven, keep the door closed and allow the meringues to dry and cool in the oven
- MAPLE SYRUP PLATES
- Boil the Escuminac Late Harvest maple syrup. Boil for about 10 minutes (until a drizzle of syrup hardens in cold water)
- Spread on waxed paper
- MOUNTING THE LOG
- Unroll the cooled cake
- Garnish the inside with icing
- Roll again
- Pour the icing on the log, being careful to let it run down the sides, nothing more.
- DÉCORATION
- Decorate the cake with the meringues, the maple syrup sheets, popcorn (no salt, no fat), nuts and pecans.