From the authentic to the eccentric, in bold designs or sophisticated styles, the Christmas log takes pride of place in every French home during the holiday season. Take a look at this yummy guide of the best cakes to taste this Christmas. The french do it well! 😛

Ladurée – Bûche Petits Souliers

These little stockings of intense chocolate are filled with the exotic flavors of coconut and passion fruit.

Eclair de Génie – Eclair Xmas Mama

Complete with Mrs. Christmas, this festive eclair is as enticing as it is delicious. Its seductive icing comes with a caramel and dark chocolate filling sure to satisfy all your sweetest desires on Christmas day.

Cyril Lignac – Boule de Noël Rouge

This XXL Christmas bauble conceals a creamy chestnut centre with a vanilla Bourbon ganache and a crunchy praline biscuit.

La Grande Epicerie – Gâteau Minuit Une

With dark chocolate, pecan nuts, hazelnuts, pear, vanilla and maple syrup, this softly flavoured cake is the perfect treat for the festive season.

Sébastien Gaudard – Bûche Séraphin

A combination of tradition and delicacy, this exquisite log is made entirely of hazelnuts and praline topped with chocolate.

La Manufacture de chocolat Alain Ducasse – L’Arbre de Noël à monter soi-même

Alain Ducasse’s chocolate-making business is marking its first Christmas with a tree made from delicious chocolate discs covered in confit and dried fruits. Assemble the tree yourself before breaking into it.

Les Fées Pâtissières – Monsieur Bonhomme de Neige

A snowman packed with luxury flavours, including vanilla mousse, hazelnut biscuit, milk chocolate cream and pear. Best served with a pear and passion fruit coulis to bring out the flavours.

A la Mère de Famille – La “Bûche” Origine

Three different chocolates, sourced from Venezuela, Peru and Madagascar, on a crispy base in a triple-choc log for Christmas.

Fauchon – Trésor des Forêts

Beneath the layers of chestnuts and velvety chocolate a treasure is waiting to be found, comprised of delicate dark chocolate, kumquats, orange zest and fragments of candied chestnuts.

chez.bogato – Merveilleux biscuits de Noël

With gingerbread houses, snowmen, Christmas trees and gifts, these little vanilla Christmas cookies with just a hint of salt are good enough to eat.

Pierre Hermé – Gâteau Noël à la Montagne II

Looking just how a Christmas log should, this delicacy is designed to look like three tree trunks topped with meringue snow, made with the famous Pure Origine Trinidad Domaine Grand Couva chocolate.

Hôtel Prince de Galles – Bûche Land Art

Master chef Yann Couvreur has used lots of logs in this Christmas creation, using milk chocolate and hazelnuts to bring us a taste of land art.

Maison du Chocolat – Bûche Conte de Noël

In a perfect Christmas tale, white chocolate reindeer are running over this log that mixes almonds, Blanc de Noir, red Williams pears from the alps and pure Madagascan chocolate.

La Pâtisserie des Rêves – La Bûche Fumée Praliné et Noisettes

A delicate, smoky flavour is the treat offered by this unique hazelnut praline log.

Dalloyau – Blancs et Merveilles

White peaks and crunchy nuts promise a winter wonderland, with creamy milk chocolate mousse and citrus topped off with bergamot meringue cream, on a crunchy macaroon and toasted nut base.

Gâteaux Thoumieux – Bûche roulée aux parfums de marron et orange

A beautifully rolled bûche which perfectly marries the delicate flavors of chestnut and orange.

Hugo & Victor – Nuit Blanche

Under a lace-like layer of white chocolate lies a vanilla mousse filled with soft chestnuts, for a delicious Christmas treat as white as snow.

Jean-Paul Hévin – Best of Paris

A gourmet take on the beauty of Paris: dark chocolate and raspberry and violet flavored jelly.

Patrick Roger – Exquise Banquise

The master chocolatier is constantly delighting fans with his chocolate creations and these four half-spheres exploding with flavor are no exception.

Lenôtre – Bûche Lenôtre & Le Prince Jardinier

To celebrate the birthday of Louis XIV’s famous gardener, André Le Nôtre, French patisserie brand Lenôtre channelled Louis Albert de Broglie, another of the Prince’s celebrated gardeners, to reinvent the traditional yule log as a winter garden in sophisticated French style.

Delmontel –  La bûche Rio

For a tropical Christmas, expert baker Arnaud Delmontel has created this exotic log flavoured with coconut and pineapple.

Bread and Roses – Bûche Vanille et Agrumes Confits

This log combines vanilla from Tahiti with slices of orange and candied fennel, bringing the sunny flavour of the tropics to a Provencal classic.

Carette – Banfora

Creamy mango, pineapple, a hint of spice and coconut biscuits make for a Christmas cake, Africa-style.

Sources: Vogue Fr