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The most beautiful Christmas logs 2025 under €60 signed by pastry chefs

The most beautiful Christmas logs 2025 under €60 signed by pastry chefs

From chocolate logs to fruity creations, our pastry chefs prove that a controlled budget can go hand in hand with refinement and indulgence for a sweet end to a meal.

Yuna Lamarque

For a delicious Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, chefs and artisans are redoubling their inventiveness, offering Yule logs in creative shapes and flavors. They form a sublime, magical centerpiece to impress your guests, before being enjoyed by the whole table.

Mango Sticky Rice log, Maison Sève

For Christmas, Lyon-based Maison Sève has created a collection of logs "inspired by encounters, family memories and distant lands". Among them is the Mango Sticky Rice log, inspired by the famous Thai dessert. inside, a soft sponge cake, roasted mangoes in fragrant jelly, fresh coconut gel, a creamy vanilla rice cream, set on an almond dacquoise. A direct echo of the culinary memories we've brought back from our travels over the years.

  • Available as a limited edition from December 6 to 31, 2025, click&collect only.
  • 6-person log: €59, individual: €9.90
  • www.chocolatseve.com
Maison Sève © Dr
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The Equinoxe log, Cyril Lignac

To round off the Christmas meal, Cyril Lignac has revisited his signature Equinoxe, creating a log of vanilla cream, caramel heart and crispy speculoos cookie. Its futuristic, original look is sure to delight both eyes and taste buds.

  • Individual log available from December 4, 8-person log from December 11. Minimum order 48 hours in advance.
  • 8-person log: €49, individual: €7
  • www.lapatisseriecyrillignac.com
Cyril Lignac © Geraldine Martens
© Geraldine Martens

The Vanilla-Lime Log, Jeffrey Cagnes

In addition to his signature log, Jeffrey Cagnes offers three more affordable and equally gourmet logs. Our favorite: a refreshing, well-balanced log, composed of a Neapolitan vanilla cookie, a streusel crunch, a creamy limelime cream, lime gel with Madagascar vanilla, Madagascar vanilla mousse and lime ganache.

  • Pre-orders from November 19. Available in store from December 15.
  • 6-person log: €48
  • www.jeffreycagnes.fr
Jeffrey Cagnes © Dr
© DR

Marron, pear and quince log, Hugues Pouget

To accompany the opening of his eponymous boutique, Hugues Pouget is launching a collection of four Yule logs. In particular, he has imagined a creation with winter flavors, which combines "gourmandise and elegance", as the chef explains. It features a chestnut flour crumble, a chestnut cookie with glazed chestnut chips, a quince and pear compote and a chestnut mousse, sublimated by a decor of chantilly and glazed chestnuts.

  • Available to order from Monday 1ᵉʳ December 2025.
  • Bûche 6-8 people : €59
  • www.huguespouget.com
Hugues Pouget © Dr
© DR

Pistachio log, Nina Métayer

Nina Métayer plays with textures to sublimate a flagship product: the pistachio. Her traditional log is composed of a pistachio crunch, an airy pistachio mousse, a creamy mousse and a pistachio praline.a pistachio praline, a pistachio pain de Gênes decorated with pistachio chantilly and a pistachio-white chocolate flock.

Nina Métayer © Theodore Meira
© Theodore Meira

Voile de Lait Mandarine log, Yazid Ichemrahen at At Home

This snowy-valley log features a Japanese-style puff pastry, scented with Indonesian vanilla with Indonesian vanilla, mandarin and yuzu confit, vanilla and white chocolate cream and mandarin pieces. The roulade is topped with a veil of tonka-bean-infused milk. A sweet log.

Yazid Ichemrahen © Dr
© DR

Chocolate-Hazelnut log, Chapon

For its "Merveilleuse épopée en Chaponie", the house has created a log that is an ode to chocolate and gourmet delights, sure to appeal to the whole family. On a crunchy hazelnut praline base is a soft hazelnut cookie, a praline insert and a light Papua rare cocoa mousse, covered with fine golden glitter.

Chapon © Dr
© DR

Infiniment Vanille log, Pierre Hermé

Pierre Hermé offers "nomadic" logs that can be easily transported. Among them, a log inspired by its legendary "Infiniment Vanille" collection, composed of white chocolate ganache, vanilla mascarpone cream (made from a blend of three vanillas) and shortbread crust.

  • Available in boutiques and on pierreherme.com from November 20, 2025.
  • 6-person log: €54
  • www.pierreherme.com
Pierre Hermé © Patrick Rougereau
patrick Rougereau

Pyrénées log, Lenôtre

The Pyrénées log evokes the comfort of a warm evening in a mountain chalet. inside, a crunchy hazelnut heart, a creamy hazelnut and fleur de sel caramel cream, a hazelnut praline, a hazelnut-vanilla mousse and a soft joconde cookie.

  • Logs available from December 4, logs to share from December 17, 2025.
  • 4-person log: €48, individual: €10.50
  • www.lenotre.com
Lenotre © Dr
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The Nkolossang log, Jean-Paul Hévin

Chocolatier Jean-Paul Hévin honors Cameroon with this "travel log". It features a crunchy gianduja-anis shortbread, a cocoa and almond paste cookie, and a 70% dark Cameroon cocoa chocolate mousse from the Hévin-Nkolossang harvesting center. A chocolate plaque with African fabric motifs adorns this creation.

Jean Paul Hévin © Dr
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Un Noël Parisien log, Tal Spiegel at Abra

The pastry chef honors the French capital with a log depicting Paris in 3D, using a mold he conceived, designed and conceived. It features a crunchy almond-buckwheat base, a soft buckwheat cookie, tatin-style pear brunoise, Christmas-spiced caramel, all wrapped in a delicate vanilla mousse.

Abra © Nathanaël Djimbilth
© Nathanaël Djimbilth

The Tout Chocolat log, Stohrer x À la Mère de Famille

Stohrer has created an all-chocolate log for the festive season, playing on textures for a contrasting result. Melting brownie, feuillantine crisp, "grandmother-style" chocolate mousse, 65% ganache montée and 85% dark chocolate veil make up this log. As for the design, it pays homage to the historic À la Mère de Famille boutique on rue du Faubourg Montmartre, a wink between the two sister houses.

Stohrer © Dr
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  • Available from mid-December 2025 at the historic Stohrer boutique on rue Montorgueil and the 7 joint Stohrer x À la Mère de Famille addresses.
  • 6-person log: €52, individual: €6.50
  • www.stohrer.fr
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