10+ of the best Christmas yule log recipes

A traditional yule log is the ultimate Christmas dessert for chocoholics and great for anyone who isn’t a fan of traditional Christmas pudding. In fact, we like to have a yule log (or Bûche de Noël) on hand for unexpected guests in the festive period to enjoy alongside a hot cup of tea.

You can find inventive yule logs at the supermarket right now but making your own is a fun activity in the run-up to Christmas.

Yule log recipes are fairly easy to master and one of the great things about them is the decoration at the end. Keep it classic, with a ganache frosting carved to replicate bark, or go all out with an intricate showstopper.

We love this yule log stump cake – which is a chocolate cake frosted with salted caramel Swiss meringue (it is Christmas after all!) and then decorated with shards of chocolate to create the bark.

Take a twist on tradition with our recipe for a mulled wine yule log. This dessert has all the warming flavours of the classic Christmas tipple – delicious!

And because the flavours of a Black Forest gateau now feel like a Christmas staple (chocolate, cherries and warming kirsch) we also have a Black Forest yule log, too. If you love the woodland theme as part of your cake decorating then check out this Black Forest Christmas gateau.

Hungry? We thought so. Read on for our favourite yule log recipes for Christmas 2022...