Allergy Princesses: Allergy Friendly Chocolate Yule Log

Sorry I wasn't on here for a while. I have been very busy, and sometimes cooking experiments don't workout the way you thought they would. Anyway, I now have a cool new recipe for you to try! It is a fantastic allergy friendly chocolate yule log!

Here are the ingredients :-

For the cake

145g self raising flour (you can use gluten free flour, but will need to add 3/4 tsp xanthum gum too)
80g soft brown sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tbsp baking powder (gluten free if needed)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
185 ml cold black coffee
3 tbsp oil (sunflower, coconut or rapeseed all work well)
2 tbsp apple and pear puree (We used some from one of Princess M's baby fruit pot)
1 tsp vanilla

For the filling and topping

200g of dairy free butter or vegetable shortening (Dairy Free Vitalite or TREX)
200g icing sugar
200g allergy friendly dark chocolate - suitable to individual needs.
2 tbsp chicory and coffee essence (Camp)

We got a large mixing bowl and mixed the dry ingredients together well.
We mixed all the wet ingredients into a jug.
Next, we lined a baking pan with grease proof paper and greased it slightly with dairy free Vitalite.
Then, we poured the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and mixed them together into a batter.
We poured it onto the rectangular baking tray and put in the oven for around 5 mins at around 170 degrees, in a fan oven (keep an eye on it!) You will know it is ready when the cake pulls away from the edges of the pan.
Next we let it cool, for 5 minutes maximum, before placing another sheet of grease proof paper over the top.
We flipped it over, whilst holding the new sheet of paper over the top of the cake, to fall gently onto the grease proof paper below.
Then we rolled the cake up, inside the paper, and left it to cool.
After it had cooled, we put the butter into a bowl and mixed it with icing sugar before we added the coffee essence.
Mummy melted the chocolate in the microwave 20 seconds at a time because if not it would have boiled.
We added the melted chocolate to our frosting mixture a few spoonfuls at a time, to stop it melting the frosting. It had to then sit in the fridge for a while to set.
We then carefully unrolled our cake and spread part of the mixture inside it. The we rolled it back up again. Don't worry if your cake cracks a little, like ours did - you won't be able to see it once you have rolled it back together and iced the top!
Then we put the rest of the frosting on the top and sides and made a bark like pattern in the mixture by running a fork across the frosting.
Finally, sieve a little bit of icing sugar over the yule log. You can put any decorations you like on there. We put on fake holly and berries with some sprinkles!