Best Yule Log this Year

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Has anyone taste tested either; Cook, M&S or Waitrose - or can recommend another one??
It is for Christmas Day desert for those that don’t like Christmas pudding

I had the M&S £15 fresh cream one in my Ocado trolley, but decided (before even trying it!), that it must be overpriced, so panic bought an £8 fresh cream Tesco one.

Hope I’m not going to regret this decision… 😩

I make this one most years and it's really easy. Just make sure you have loads of baking paper as you need to do a bit of swift rolling! Nothing you can buy will taste as good as this.

That's good to know, we have one instead of a usual cake

Not true. I’m an ok cook but my chocolate sponge is dry and horrid.
Also shop poured chocolate is even and cracks slightly.

We’ve got the M&S gluten free one as well. Will report back!

I won't get there today becaude of work but the M&S best ever looks delicious. Does anyone know if it would still be available at the weekend so I can serve it for NYE instead?

The M&S Best Ever is divine - you get what you pay for. It has ganache so none of that nasty buttercream crap most supermarkets use.

Yes @Stickytoffeepuddingss it should still be available this weekend - M&S never remove their Christmas foods until it all sells which it will because it all gets reduced to half price on the 27th.?

You can’t make it in advance. I may make one between Christmas and new year.

Brilliant , thanks Berlin I will get there early on Saturday!

i was going to get one from the coop as recommended above, but i have no room in the fridge

The £15 M&S one is gorgeous - we’ve been eating it the last few days because we realised we would otherwise have too many desserts (shame!). Will definitely get again next year.

Oh good, we're cracking that M&S one open tonight.

We had the M&S Best Ever one tonight and it was fab. Moist sponge, fresh cream, not too sweet.

I've made the Nigella Yule log this afternoon. Buttercream inside, ganache outside. It's basically our Christmas cake. Appreciate not everyone has time but I really recommend the recipe.

Cannot believe nobody has mentioned the amazing Xmas Log Blog guy from social media! He's my go-to for all things yule log. Asda's was crowned the best this year 😍

We had the M and S £15 one and I can agree with the other reviews, it was delicious. Definitely can recommend.

The M&S one went down very well with all of us! I ate far too much of it

Aldi's was not bad with a nice dollop of cream

Anothet thumbs up for M&S, it was amazing. Rich, dark, dense, creamy.

The gluten free M&S one is alright. Very, very dense, though - you need cream to loosen it all up a bit. I thought it must be full of dates but it isn’t! It’s gone down very well with my two resident cake testers, though!

The M and S one is lovely with Baileys icecream.

I bought this and thought it was so bad I chucked it out.

PP was correct, rhe lidl one was pretty dry
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I love the nigella one too, with buttercream icing. So easy to make my teenager makes it! And it’s gluten free, win win.

I agree with this, we had it with ice cream which worked okay.