Christmas Log

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 chocolate swiss roll
• 50 g digestive biscuits, crushed
• 2 tablespoons apricot jam
• 1 tablespoon orange juice
• 100 g dried mixed fruit
• 75 g milk chocolate
• 25 g butter, softened
• 50 g icing sugar, sifted, plus extra for dusting
• fondant
• cocoa powder
• edible green food coloring

Recipe

• 1 crumble the swiss roll into the bowl and add the biscuit crumbs, jam, orange juice and dried fruit and mix together with your hands.
• 2 place the mixture on a board and shape into a roll about the size of the original swiss roll, wrap in cling film and put in the fridge.
• 3 using a potato peeler, scrape about 15g chocolate into shreds on to a plate.
• 4 break the remaining chocolate pieces and put in a small bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water until melted, or melt in the microwave.
• 5 beat the butter, then beat in the coated but still melted chocolate
• 6 unwrap the log, and using a knife, spread with the icing, use a fork to make it look like tree bark and dust with icing sugar to resemble snow.
• 7 put on a plate and sprinkle with chocolate shreds.
• 8 if liked, make fondant icing mushrooms and dip the heads into cocoa powder, then colour some fondant icing green and cut out leaves.