Chocolate Log without Cake Recipes?

[CloudyVanilla]

Does anyone have or know of any chocolate log recipes that are not sponge or have any good ideas for one? :)

Um... 'chocolate log' is a cake. Why do you want one that isn't?

I suppose it might be possible to make a log out of a sort of tiffin or rocky road mixture. Or cement a lot of Flakes together with ganache.

I’m confused by this concept at a very fundamental level....

Do you mean perhaps like Nigella’s chocolate salami? Which is essentially a big sausage shaped tiffin.

Do you mean a fatless sponge? That would be the traditional style.

I guess you could try a chocolate truffle recipe wih white chocolate ganache rolled together and then a dark chocolate ganache on top but that would be incredibly delicious rich.

I didn't know it was a thing!

www.nigella.com/recipes/chocolate-salame

Amaretti biscuits in it...sounds good. I suppose various crystallised fruits in the mix might make it more Christmassy? Obviously don't do the string...Probably want a ganache coating for the 'bark' and then the sugar snow?

Would need to be a slightly warm truffle but not too warm that the ganache separates.

You could do a meringue roulade type thing instead of a Swiss roll.

We had a recipe for one where you sandwiched a packet of biscuits with some cream whipped with cocoa powder, wrap in foil overnight and then covered with the remaining cream mixture. I remember it being really nice and also very easy to make - it was a recipe shared by our Y5 teacher (I think he made it with his own children). This is the closest recipe I could find online but I think we used Fox’s crinkle crunch biscuits rather than digestives.

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/13206/christmas-chocolate-log.aspx

Chocolate fridge cake? The one with crushed digestives, malteasers, syrup, butter and chocolate all mixed up and set in the fridge.

I think that would work, you'd just have to roll it into shape before chilling it.

I was going to suggest one of those biscuit things too. Crinkles would be lush!

My mother always made it using an old fridge cake recipe with crushed digestives, chocolate, glacé cherries, walnuts, copious amounts of brandy, eggs, sugar and butter.

She was making it long before I came along (50 yrs ago) and still makes it for me every year - it’s been my favourite cake ever since I can remember 😁

A lot of family friends made stheir log similarly. Some where brandy cakes, some were rum cakes, some whiskey or liqueur based. There were even a couple of booze free ones

It was only relatively recently that I realised some people used a sponge based cake for their log.

She turned the tin a whiskey bottle came in as a tin to make it log shaped, lined with foil for ease of getting out. Delicious and the best taste of Christmas!

Oh god yes thank you a tray bake/Chocolate Salami sounds EXACTLY what I'm looking for :)

I simply want a cakeless one because I love the look and history of chocolate logs but I just don't like sponge cake that much. When googling, the results are pretty lacklustre but a tray bake decorated with ganache instead of buttercream sounds absolutely perfect :)