Dessert Eve, Christmas Trunk

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and so special for tonight's nothing better than the recipe for Christmas trunk. It is not the easiest recipe for this day, it is much easier to Turron flan recipe, but it is a typical dessert, and if we dare, the result is worth it.

Ingredients for the trunk of Christmas:

For the cake:

100g of flour.
100 g of sugar.
3 eggs.
1 teaspoon of yeast.

For the filling:

200 ml of milk.
2 tablespoons cornstarch (corn flour).
2 eggs.
150 g of sugar.
70 g of butter.

For coverage:

200 g of black chocolate.
50 g of butter.

Decoration:

Chocolate eggs.
Fresh mint.
Sugar glaze.
Paper plant or 2 baking sheets with silicone.

To begin to separate the egg whites and batiremos about to snow. Separately, mix yolks with sugar until creamy. This mixture of egg yolks, add the sifted flour and yeast. Preheat oven to 150 degrees.

Add, with care, a point clear of snow and mix well. We plant the paper greased with butter, or a silicone tray in the oven, and extend the mass on the surface. We make the dough 10 minutes at 150 degrees, while the cake is browned.

Cojemos a silicone sheet or paper plant and sprinkled sugar on top. Turning the oven tray on it, we put the cake with paper or foil silicone put in the tray. Roll the cake warm, with the help of the foil or paper plant and let cool in that position.

To make the pastry cream for the filling, thin corn flour in milk, you add the eggs and sugar, so we remove from fire and constantly until it thickens, add the butter and withdrew. When cold cream and cake, so we fill desenrrollamos carefully and then rolling again.

For decoration, cut one end of the cake and put it as a branch at one end. For the coverage we melt the chocolate in a water bath, along with butter, to put it in a hot pan and introduce another smaller diameter where the chocolate will suffice to keep warm. Indeed chocolate coverage, we cover the entire surface with hot chocolate, with the exception of the branch started earlier, then mark the stripes of the trunk with a fork.

Let it cool in the refrigerator and decorated with chocolate eggs and a few mint leaves, eventually move to a glass and sprinkle sugar on top.