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The Best Yule Logs in Toronto

The Best Yule Logs in Toronto

The Best Yule Logs in Toronto

The best Yule logs in Toronto make it easy to use cake, mousse, buttercream and more as valuable holiday decor. Beyond that, they're the traditional sweet you'll want on the table as your feast draws to a close.

A Yule log, or bûche de Noël, is a European import dating back to the 18th century. Said to represent the log traditionally burned on Christmas Eve to ensure luck in the year ahead, the cakes have become an essential holiday must-have for many in northern climes.

Today's contemporary takes tend to look less like lumber and more like elaborate confections bedecked and bedazzled for the year's most festive days. Concealed beneath their delicate façade, they hide a symphony of ingredients, blending flavours that hit all the indulgent notes you want from a once-a-year treat.

These logs may not ensure blessings in the year to come, but they guarantee the sweetest finishes to any festive meal. Try the best Yule logs in Toronto and celebrate the creative culinary minds taking tradition into thrilling new territory.

627 Mt Pleasant Rd

Thobors

Thobors

Bedecked for the season with a flurry of decorations, Thobors' bûches de Noël mix classic French technique with holiday-appropriate kitsch. Offered in three flavours, from tropical to pecan-driven or dark chocolate with raspberry, each log comes in three sizes perfect for parties of six to 16.

1374 Queen St W

The Tempered Room

The Tempered Room

Only the good-humoured, extraordinarily talented team at The Tempered Room could make a Yule log look like a lump of coal and have us all clamouring to buy one. Inspired by the forest floor and crafted in worship of the cocoa bean, this log may be made for those on the naughty list but should be reserved for everyone else. With chocolate-dipped candied reindeer lichen, cherrywood smoked, creamy dark couverture chocolate mousse, birch syrup sponge, and more, this Christmas miracle could have the nice among us rethinking our ways.

362 King St E

Roselle Desserts

Roselle Desserts

This darling Corktown bakery has two 4-inch dessert logs on offer this year. The Paradise — or, vacation in a bûche, as the owners call it — combines mango and passionfruit cremeux with coconut lime mousse and a coconut dacquoise. Then there's the unapologetically rich Chocolate Bûche, featuring dark chocolate cake, 70% dark chocolate cremeux, milk chocolate mousse and a dark chocolate glaze.

1419 Danforth Ave

Patisserie La Cigogne

Patisserie La Cigogne

With two Toronto locations, it's easy to get your hands on one of Patisserie La Cigogne's five varieties of Yule log. Opt for Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt Caramel, Chestnut Cream or a nut-free Vanilla & Mixed Berries, knowing that each one delivers authentic French flavours in a tidy, festive package.

1099 Yonge St

Nadege

Nadege

The new Sweet Holiday log joins Nadège's three other Yule log flavours this year. Crafted from vanilla mousse, citron cake and compote, berry compote and creamy, lemon chantilly cream, the Sweet Holiday is a fresh, bright take on tradition.

1418 Dundas St W

Hadrien Verrier Patisserie

Hadrien Verrier Patisserie

As always, Hadrien Verrier Patisserie's holiday menu is riddled with enough colourful, über-festive treats to keep hordes of hungry elves happy. Choose between a triple chocolate Yule log with white chocolate Speculoos biscuit, a Christmas fragola cake with strawberry juniper compote or the Nutty Santa with praline mousse, knowing that whichever one you choose, you're in for a treat.

The Best Yule Logs in Toronto

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The Best Yule Logs in Toronto

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The best Yule logs in Toronto make it easy to use cake, mousse, buttercream and more as valuable holiday decor. Beyond that, they're the traditional sweet you'll want on the table as your feast draws to a close.

A Yule log, or bûche de Noël, is a European import dating back to the 18th century. Said to represent the log traditionally burned on Christmas Eve to ensure luck in the year ahead, the cakes have become an essential holiday must-have for many in northern climes.

Today's contemporary takes tend to look less like lumber and more like elaborate confections bedecked and bedazzled for the year's most festive days. Concealed beneath their delicate façade, they hide a symphony of ingredients, blending flavours that hit all the indulgent notes you want from a once-a-year treat.

These logs may not ensure blessings in the year to come, but they guarantee the sweetest finishes to any festive meal. Try the best Yule logs in Toronto and celebrate the creative culinary minds taking tradition into thrilling new territory.

1374 Queen St W

The Tempered Room

The Tempered Room

Only the good-humoured, extraordinarily talented team at The Tempered Room could make a Yule log look like a lump of coal and have us all clamouring to buy one. Inspired by the forest floor and crafted in worship of the cocoa bean, this log may be made for those on the naughty list but should be reserved for everyone else. With chocolate-dipped candied reindeer lichen, cherrywood smoked, creamy dark couverture chocolate mousse, birch syrup sponge, and more, this Christmas miracle could have the nice among us rethinking our ways.

362 King St E

Roselle Desserts

Roselle Desserts

This darling Corktown bakery has two 4-inch dessert logs on offer this year. The Paradise — or, vacation in a bûche, as the owners call it — combines mango and passionfruit cremeux with coconut lime mousse and a coconut dacquoise. Then there's the unapologetically rich Chocolate Bûche, featuring dark chocolate cake, 70% dark chocolate cremeux, milk chocolate mousse and a dark chocolate glaze.

1418 Dundas St W

Hadrien Verrier Patisserie

Hadrien Verrier Patisserie

As always, Hadrien Verrier Patisserie's holiday menu is riddled with enough colourful, über-festive treats to keep hordes of hungry elves happy. Choose between a triple chocolate Yule log with white chocolate Speculoos biscuit, a Christmas fragola cake with strawberry juniper compote or the Nutty Santa with praline mousse, knowing that whichever one you choose, you're in for a treat.