Christmas is synonymous with enchantment! We love to stroll around to see the illuminations, the Christmas windows or to eat and stroll in the Christmas markets… There’s so much to do! To enhance your Christmas Eve dinner, here are the most beautiful Yule logs to try this year!
Le Café de la Paix and its enchanted log
Introducing this year’s cutest yule log. Imagined by the chic Café de la Paix, this elegant dessert will take you back to childhood. The log is composed of a creamy Madagascar vanilla mousse. A crunchy layer of caramelized pecan and praline feuillantine, and a pecan cremeux, add pep and texture. A delicious gourmet interlude for the whole family to enjoy this year.
📍Location: 5, Place de l’Opéra 75009 Paris
💵 Price: €85
📅Date: available on order 48h in advance until December 31, 2024
The Alléno x Rivoire log in the clouds
Like something out of a dream, this delicate log imagined by Alléno x Rivoire invites you to indulge in sweetness this holiday season. It features a delicious hazelnut crunch, an airy vanilla cream and a cookie with a burnt vanilla praline center. A log as light as it is delicious
💵 Price: €90
📅Date: Available December 1 exclusively at Galeries Lafayette Le Gourmet
Christmas in Paris” cake from La Grande Épicerie
For the end of the year, La Grande Epicerie de Paris is celebrating a Christmas in Paris, with our beloved Eiffel Tower as its ambassador. Pastry chef Thibault Leroy and his team have imagined a delicious chocolate Eiffel Tower and a lace of dulcey chocolate reminiscent of the Art Deco codes of La Grande Épicerie de Paris. In the center, hides a palet of hazelnut cream and praline. Beneath the intense dark glaze is a Peruvian milk chocolate mousse (50%), a hazelnut caramel, a crunchy puffed rice and praline, a hazelnut cream and a hazelnut cookie... In short, gourmandise guaranteed.
📍Location: 38, rue de Sèvres 75007 Paris // 80, rue de Passy 75016 Paris
💵 Price: €65
📅Date: Available at patisserie counters from November 28 to December 31
Mandarin Oriental’s 100% chocolate log
This year, discover Mandarin Oriental’s Malle Impériale. An ode to travel that will titillate your senses. This 70% chocolate trunk was sculpted by Julien Dugourd. Inside, you’ll discover a soft chocolate cookie, enhanced by a jasmine-infused passion fruit coulis and an exotic jasmine cream.
💵 Price: 6 to 9-person version 140 euros, also available individually for 20 euros
📅Date: available until December 26, with orders placed 72 hours in advance for the family version.
La bûche Guitare Hôtel Kimpton St Honoré
This year, iconic guitar brand Gibson has teamed up with the Kimpton Saint-Honoré Paris hotel to bring you the most rock’n’roll of Yule logs. Comprising a dark chocolate shell, 75% chocolate mousse, an exotic insert (mango, banana, passion fruit and pineapple), and a chocolate brownie cookie, this guitar will electrify your festive season!
📍Location : 27 – 29 Bd des Capucines, 75002 Paris
💵 Price: 90 euros
📅Date : available 72 h in advance
The Comptoir du Ritz Madeleine Yule log
For this season, François Perret has imagined a yule log adorned with intertwined Madeleines. It comes in two versions: an all-chocolate version, with praline chocolate chips and a heart of melting chocolate cream… Or a fruity version, with a passion fruit center and crumble sponge cake. Simply delicious! Available for pre-order now at Comptoir du Ritz.
📍Location: 38 Rue Cambon, 75001 Paris
💵 Price: 95 euros
📅Date: Available until December 31
The flake log from Lutetia Paris
This year, Pastry Chef Nicolas Guercio presents a magical, gourmet Yule log: the Bûche “Flocon”. A veritable pastry masterpiece, it revisits the traditional Mont-Blanc. Composed of subtly spiced blackcurrant and smooth crème de marron, the flake is covered with a white chocolate reminiscent of snow. A beautiful log to share for 6 to 8 people.
📍Location: 45 Boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris
💵 Price: 145 euros
📅Date: Available until December 22
Royal Monceau‘s pretty log
This year, Pastry Chef Yazid Ichemrahen, accompanied by his Executive Chef Alexandre Favre, have designed a Yule log in tribute to the establishment. The elegant dessert features a chocolate cookie, an airy chocolate mousse infused with farmhouse milk and flavored with Christmas spices.
📍Location : 37 Avenue Hoche 75008 Paris
💵 Price: 90 euros
📅Date: Available until December 31
Le Péninsula “Hespéridée” log
Chef Anne Coruble once again pays homage to nature with Dancing Leaves. The log is based on a crisp vanilla cookie and lemon zest. The cheesecake made with raw milk softens the lemon paste. A beautiful log to devour this year!
📍Location: 19 avenue Kléber 75116 Paris
💵 Price: 80 euros
📅Date: Available until December 31, 72h pre-order required