Pipari or Gingerbread Christmas log

The traditional French Yule log was too boring for my taste. Nah, let's spice it up!

Ingredients: 

Frosting:

- Gingerbread cookie butter, recipe here.

For the Crème pâtissière (pastry cream):

- 4dl + 1dl milk
- 5 egg yolks
- 5 Tablespoons cornstarch or 3 tablespoons wheat flour (I prefer using flour)

- Vanilla or Cinnamon. It's up to you.

For the cake:
- 100g of sugar + 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar.
- 100g of flour
- 5 eggs (1 whole + 4 yolks + 4 white)

Note: The cake tastes better after spending the night in the fridge, so does the cookie butter. Think ahead! 

Cream:


In a saucepan, carefully bring 4dl of milk and the Vanilla or cinnamon to a boil. In the mean time, dilute the starch or flour in 1dl of milk. Add it to the rest of the milk, boil and set aside. Whisk the yolks and the sugar together until the mixture whitens and the sugar is well dissolved. Slowly pour the hot milk into the egg/sugar mixture,
while simultaneously whisking. Then, transfer the mixture back to the saucepan and cook on medium heat until the cream is thick. It is important to constantly whisk the cream while it cooks. Let it cool before using it.

Cake:

Preheat your oven to 200 Celsius.

Whisk the yolks and the sugars until creamy. Add a whole egg to the mix and stir.

Add the flour, little by little.

Beat your eggs white and carefully combine them into the flour mixture.

Spread the batter on a rectangular cooking pan and bake for 10 minutes.


Transfer the cake to a clean and humid towel, and roll it on its own. This step will help us roll the cake with the filling without breaking it. Let it cool 10 minutes, then unroll the cake and transfer it on to a parchment paper. Add the cream, then roll the cake. Cool it in the fridge for an hour. Then, simply cover the log with the cookie butter and let it set 10 minutes. With a fork, create lines along the frosting. And let your log set overnight before decorating (I will sprinkle some crushed Gingerbread over the frosting) and serving.

I made two mini logs, a lime and a gingerbread one. Nam.