Guam Bakery » desserts http://www.guambakery.com Open to serve you everyday of the year... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:08:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yule Log… http://www.guambakery.com/2009/10/27/yule-log/ http://www.guambakery.com/2009/10/27/yule-log/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:38:17 +0000 admin http://www.guambakery.com/?p=38 yule log... It’s about that time of year and one of the special things we do here is a Yule Log.  Obviously not the “traditional” or “real” log… but a replica of it… read below the excerpt from Wikipedia.  The day after Thanksgiving we will be having yule logs along with some old favorites at the bakery stop on by to see our selection.

A Yule log is a large wooden log which is burned in the hearth as a part of traditional Yule or Christmas celebrations in several European cultures. It can be a part of the Winter Solstice festival or the Twelve Days of Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Twelfth Night.

Sometime in the late 18th to early 19th century, a facsimile of the Yule Log became a traditional French dessert. Usually, it is in the form of a large rectangular yellow cake spread with frosting and rolled up into a cylinder – one end is then lopped off and stood on end to indicate the rings of the “log. from Wikipedia

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