Champagne Cake Roll With White Chocolate (White Chocolate Bûche de Noël)

Filled with Champagne buttercream and decorated with gold chocolate shards and sugar pearls, this cake roll is the pinnacle of festivity. Instead of using ordinary Champagne, I make this cake with Marc de Champagne, a pomace brandy made from Champagne grape skins, seeds, and stalks that pairs beautifully with the cake's creamy buttercream filling and sweet white chocolate ganache coating.

Gingerbread Buche de Noel From 'Baking Chez Moi'

Among the plethora of simple, straightforward French desserts that fill the pages of Dorie Greenspan's new Baking Chez Moi, there is a handful of more involved desserts, and those she reimagines in her own way. Her Gingerbread Buche de Noel is both. Yule logs are a staple of the French holiday season, but this version seems quite American, with it's cream cheese filling and sweet meringue frosting.

Hot Chocolate and Marshmallow Cake Roll

Hot chocolate becomes cake in this recipe that incorporates moist chocolate cake, marshmallow whipped cream, and hot chocolate sauce.

Classic Chocolate Yule Log

A fluffy, light, and tender chocolate roulade that's easy to customize with whatever flavors you love best.

Chocolate Roll (a.k.a. Giant Yodel)

A velvety chocolate cake is rolled up with vanilla whipped cream and then swathed in glossy ganache.

Chocolate Cake with Whipped Ganache Frosting

This is a decadent chocolate cake, reminiscent of devil's food in flavor and moisture. The whipped chocolate ganache frosting is every chocolate lover's dream.

Chocolate Meringue Cake With Whipped Cream and Raspberries

This chocolate meringue cake with whipped cream and fresh raspberries is a surefire crowd pleaser and easy to make. Layers of dense, moist chocolate cake topped with delicate, crispy meringue are sandwiched together with whipped cream and fresh raspberry sauce to make the ultimate holiday dessert.

Chocolate Decadence Cake

As far as chocolate cakes go, this one is the ultimate in decadence, hence its name. The moist cake is hugged tightly by smooth buttercream, and thick blanket of ganache on top seals the goodness in with a kiss. There's no escaping this cake, so don't even try.

Little Debbie-Style Christmas Tree Cakes

Making this cake isn't hard at all, but describing the entire process makes it seem more daunting. Put simply: bake a cake. Make buttercream. Sandwich them together. Cut into shapes. Glaze. Put more obnoxiously, well, read on.

Baking with Dorie: Galette des Rois

Here in Paris we said au’revoir to the last bûches de Noël (yule logs) on New Year’s Eve and bonjour to les galettes des Rois on January 2, the day the city’s pastry shops reopened. While the galette des rois...