
Ingredients:
• For Swiss roll biscuit:
• 3 eggs
• 3 yolks (reserve the whites in separate bowl)
• 150 g – Sugar
• 75 g – Cake Flour sifted
• For chocolate cream:
• 30 g – Sugar
• 2 Cinnamon sticks (crushed)
• 1 cup – heavy Cream
• 250 g – bitter sweet chocolate
• 50 g – unsalted Butter
Method:
- In an electric mixing bowl, whisk the eggs and yolks with half of the sugar until fluffy and pale.
- Whisk the egg whites, adding the sugar gradually, until hard peaks but it is not dry.
- Fold both mixes together by hand, and carefully incorporate the flour.
- Line on baking paper, 1 cm thick.
- Bake at 180 degree C until light brown.
- Using a small pot on a low heat, caramelize the sugar without water.
- Add the cinnamon sticks and continue to caramelize until you hear little popping sounds.
- Add the heavy cream carefully and bring to a boil to dissolve the flavoured sugar.
- Strain, pour over the chopped chocolate and stir with a rubber spatula.
- Cool down slightly and add the butter.
- Refrigerate until it is of a creamy consistency.
- Remove the baking paper from the Swiss roll biscuit.
- Using the same paper, lay the biscuit over it.
- Spread a thin layer of chestnut cream, then a layer of the chocolate cream. Sprinkle fresh raspberry over it and roll the biscuit into a log.
- Spread the left over chocolate cream over it to cover the log.
- Decorate with Christmas decorations.