Icebox Peppermint Yule Log Cake

Total Time: 8 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 8 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 20 round red- and -striped hard peppermint candies
• 2 3/4 cups heavy cream
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
• 36 nabisco famous chocolate wafers
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder, sifted

Recipe

• 1 chop candies in food processor until crushed but not ground. with electric mixer, beat 1 1/2 cups cream, 1/4 cup sugar, vanilla, and peppermint extract in large bowl until soft peaks form. fold crushed candy into peppermint cream.
• 2 spread 1 tablespoon peppermint cream on chocolate wafer. top with another wafer and repeat 4 more times to produce stack of 6 wafers with cream in between each cookie. make 6 stacks, each with 6 wafers. spread 1 tablespoon peppermint cream on top of 5 stacks, leaving 1 stack plain.
• 3 place cookie stacks on sides and put them together end to end, making one 16-inch log. a plain stack without cream on top wafer should be placed at end. wrap log in plastic and freeze until firm, at least 5 hours.
• 4 with electric mixer, beat remaining cream, remaining sugar, and cocoa in large bowl until stiff peaks form.
• 5 cut thin piece diagonally from one end of frozen log and discard. cut 2-inch piece diagonally from other end of frozen log and set aside.
• 6 transfer frozen cake to serving platter and spread all but 1/2 cup cocoa cream evenly over the log. press reserved 2-inch piece on top of log to make bump, placing it several inches from one end of log. cover bump with remaining cocoa cream.
• 7 drag tines of fork down length of log to simulate bark.
• 8 freeze until firm, at least 3 hours.
• 9 let stand at room temperature for 20 minutes before serving.