La bûche de Noël
This is a traditional French dessert that we were not able to make in December. However, it's not too late to savour "la bûche de Noël"! We enjoyed using our skills to decorate it in French club this week. Here is our recipe:
La bûche de Noël
4 eggs
1 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Powdered sugar
250 mL whipping cream, whipped with 2 tbsp powdered sugar
chocolate icing (We used Duncan Hines'.)
strawberries for garnish, if desired
Heat oven to 375. Line jelly roll pan with parchment paper. Beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes in medium bowl. Gradually add sugar. Beat in water and vanilla on low speed. Gradually add flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt, beating just until batter is smooth. Pour into pan, spreading into corners.
Bake 15 minutes. Immediately loosen cake from pan and invert onto clean tea towel generously sprinkled with powdered sugar. Carefully remove paper. While hot, gently roll cake and towel together. Allow to cool on wire rack. Unroll cake and remove towel. Fill with whipping cream.
Decorate roll with chocolate icing, creating the appearance of a log. Garnish with strawberries or any other fruit; sprinkle with icing sugar.
Savourez-la!
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On another note, we hope that the weather will be a bit better so that we can begin our snow sculpture carving.
We are working on our journal entries describing our families (Gr. 3/4, 4/5), our school activities (5/6) and our weekend activities in the future or past tenses (7/8).
Please check our latest link to "Muzzy" which has French subtitles and is a good introduction to some basic French vocabulary and structures.
Our "Question of the Week" for Grades 3-6 is "Est-ce que tu as des frères et des soeurs?". For Gr. 7/8, we will be asking "Qu'est-ce que tu as fait ce weekend?"
À bientôt,
Mme Christensen
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