
For 8 people
- 100 gr. of chestnuts
- 100 gr. pears in syrup
- For cream muslin:
- 250 gr. milk
- 120 gr. cream brown
- 125 gr. sugar
- 160 gr. whipped cream
- 4 egg yolks
- 25 gr. of cornstarch
- 2 sheets of gelatin
- For the chocolate cream:
- 125 gr. sugar
- 50 gr. chocolate
- 40 gr. icing sugar
- For the biscuit:
- 35 gr. starch
- 40 gr. flour
- 75 gr. sugar
- 3 eggs
- For the syrup:
- 50 gr. syrup
- 10 cl. eau-de-vie de poire
- 30 gr. sugar

| 1 h. 15 + 4 à 5 h. de réfrigération |
| 1 h. 30, 200°C.(th.6/7)/425-450 °F |
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- Preheat oven to 200 ° C. (th.6 / 7)
2 Prepare cd'oeufs yellow in a bowl.
In a bowl up the white snow with the sugar farm.
Pour quickly 2 egg yolks in the whites-mounted snow.Gently mix in sifted flour and starch together (with a wooden spoon of a movement from bottom to top).
Pour the dough on a plate covered with paper.
Spread in order to obtain a thickness of 1 cm. And Bake for 10 minutes.
- Prepare the cream muslin:
In a terrinemélangez sugar and cornstarch. Add the egg yolks while stirring.
Pour the boiling milk trickle in on the yellow-sugar mixture.
Reverse all in the pan, without ceasing to stir, cook until the topping spoon.Reverse the pastry cream in the refrigerator.
Draw-in 200 gr.
Add it using the cream brown, the leaves of gelatine (previously softened in a little cold water and melted in a bain-marie) and whipped cream.
- Prepare the syrup.
Then proceed to the assembly of the log:
Shirts a cake mold with parchment paper. Garnish with half height cream muslin.
Sprinkle pears and chestnuts diced.
Put a tape in the center of biscuits previously soaked with syrup.
Then book in the refrigerator for 5 to 6 h.
- After this time, beat the butter and icing sugar until a nice consistency, add the melted chocolate.
Cool book, and 1 h. before dinner, remove the log.
Brush with a fork, the surface of the log with chocolate cream, forming ripples to imitate wood.



