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2024 Christmas logs signed by pastry chefs

2024 Christmas logs signed by pastry chefs

Emilie Lesur | 12/16/24, 4:14 PM
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Pastry chefs reinvent the Yule log with elegant, gourmet creations. Chocolate, fruit or refined textures: these exceptional desserts will effortlessly delight your guests for a serene and tasty festive season.

For the festive season, pastry chefs compete in creativity to reinvent the Yule log. Sublimating flavors and textures, these gourmet creations seduce as much by their elegance as by their originality. From intense chocolate to tangy fruit, they invite you to savor them without the need to get your hands dirty. An ideal selection to impress your guests and enjoy the festive spirit in complete serenity, with already perfect desserts signed by the greatest names.

Jean-Paul Hévin's Cameroun log

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  • inside: alfalfa-seed hazelnut gianduja, chocolate cookie, Grand Cru dark chocolate mousse from Cameroon, vanilla crème brûlée and fleur de sel. Milk chocolate caramelized almond base.
  • A log imagined by Jean-Paul Hévin
  • Price: 67 euros

The Alléno&Rivoire "Dans les Nuages" Yule Log

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  • inside: a hazelnut crunch, a soft vanilla cloud, a soft cookie and a heart of burnt vanilla praline
  • A log imagined by Aurélien Rivoire
  • Price: 90 euros

The Gemmes Lenôtre log

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  • inside: chocolate mousse and lime-leaf-infused cream, hazelnut crunch, soft chocolate cookie, citrus compote
  • A log imagined by Etienne Leroy under the direction of Guy Krenzer
  • Price: 190 euros

The Manufacture Ducasse pastry log

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  • inside the bûche pâtissière: a three-vanilla ice-cream insert, surrounded by a hazelnut crunch, dances in rhythm with a hazelnut praline ice-cream surrounded by a thin shell of dark chocolate.
  • inside, a hazelnut praline and caramel ice cream, surrounded by a generous gianduja mousse and an airy hazelnut chantilly on a bed of chocolate cookie.
  • A log imagined by Flora Davies and
  • Prices: 70 euros and 65 euros

Pierre Hermé's Reflet log

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  • inside: Breton shortbread with chestnut flour, soft chestnut and ginger cookie, vanilla and marron glacé cream, ginger confit.
  • A log imagined by Pierre Hermé
  • Price: 48 euros

Claire Heitzler's Flocon de vanille log

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  • inside: crunchy shortbread, soft vanilla cookie, vanilla cream topped with rice pudding, airy vanilla mousse
  • A log imagined by Claire Heitzler
  • Price: 62 euros

The Jeffrey Cagnes log

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  • inside: vanilla cookie, vanilla crunch, vanilla praline mousse, vanilla praline, dark chocolate shell
  • A log imagined by Jeffrey Cagnes
  • Price: 85 euros

Ladurée's exceptional log

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  • inside:: a crunchy shortbread base with crushed almonds, a melt-in-the-mouth cookie with muscovado sugar and crushed almonds, vanilla-flavored semi-salted butter caramel and, finally, the softness of almond paste, almond praline and light vanilla cream. All wrapped in a white chocolate shell.
  • A log imagined by Julien Alvarez for Ladurée
  • Price: 300 euros
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