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.

Chocolate and Salted Caramel Bûche de Nöel

A traditional Christmas cake roll, frosted with chocolate icing and filled with salted caramel filling.

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

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

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.

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...

Easy Chocolate Rugelach

Rich, chocolatey, and oh-so-satisfying.

Chocolate Rugelach

Rugelach are a beloved Jewish holiday treat! These Chocolate Rugelach are perfect pinwheels of flaky yet tender pastry swirled with a decadent chocolate filling.

Chocolate Pecan Galette

Filled with dark chocolate and crunchy pecans, this riff on the classic Thanksgiving pie is perfect not just during the autumn, but all year long.

Mocha Mascarpone Icebox Cake

With layers of mocha whipped cream and homemade chocolate chip cookies, this summertime icebox cake is bittersweet, creamy, and crunchy all at once.