Source: 1973 McCall's magazine – Cooking School
Cake ingredients
- 6 egg whites, room temperature (approx. 1 hr.)
- ¾ cup sugar
- 6 egg yolks
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 dash salt
- Confectioners' sugar
Filling ingredients
- 1½ cups heavy cream, chilled
- ½ cup confectioners' sugar
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
- 2 teaspoons instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
To decorate (optional)
- Candied cherries
- Angelica
Filling directions
- Combine ingredients in medium bowl. Beat with electric mixer until thick; chill.
Cake directions
- Grease the bottom of a 15x10x1" jelly roll pan; line w/ waxed paper; grease slightly.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- In a large electric mixer bowl, at high speed, beat egg whites until soft peaks form when beaters are slowly lifted.
- Add ¼ cup sugar, 2 Tablespoons at a time, beating until stiff peaks form when beaters are slowly lifted.
- With the same beaters, beat yolks at high speed, adding remaining ½ cup sugar, 2 Tablespoons at a time; beat until mixture is very thick, approximately 4 minutes.
- At low speed, beat in cocoa, vanilla, salt, just until smooth.
- With wire whisk or rubber spatula, gently fold cocoa mixture into egg whites just until blended (no egg whites should show).
- Spread evenly in pan.
- Bake 15 minutes, just until surface springs back when gently pressed with fingertip.
- Sift confectioner's sugar in a 15x10" rectangle on a clean linen towel.
- Turn cake out on sugar; lift off pan; peel paper off cake.
- Roll up cake jelly-roll-fashion, starting with the short end towel and all.
- Cool completely on rack, seam side down.
Assembly directions
- Unroll cake; spread with filling to 1" from edge; reroll.
- Place, seam side down, on plate.
- Cover loosely with foil.
- Chill at least 1 hour before serving.
Serving directions
- Sprinkle yule log w/ confectioner's sugar and decorate with red candied cherries and green angelica "leaves". If you can't find angelica, use cut up green candied cherries.
- Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour before serving.
Notes
- You may make the Yule Log up to a week ahead and freeze, wrapped in foil.
- The cherries and angelica can be considered optional items.