🎄 The Most Delicious Homemade Dessert for the New Year
This stunning chocolate log cake is rich, glossy, and coated with a crunchy chocolate shell. It’s the perfect New Year’s dessert: elegant, indulgent, and surprisingly easy to make. No oven required!
🧾 Ingredients
For the Chocolate Base
200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate
100 g (3.5 oz) butter
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
100 g (3.5 oz) crushed biscuits (tea biscuits or digestive biscuits)
80 g (⅓ cup) powdered sugar
100 ml (⅓ cup + 1 tbsp) heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Crunchy Chocolate Coating
200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate
1 tablespoon vegetable oil or coconut oil
60 g (½ cup) puffed rice or chopped nuts (hazelnuts or almonds)
