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"  In France, Christmas dinner always ends with a B\u00FBche de No\u00EBl, a delightful cylindrical cake that&amp;#039;s decorated to look like a little log. To prepare one involves making a flat cake, filling it with buttercream, rolling it up, icing it with a different frosting, creating wood-grain patterns in the frosting, cutting off the end and attaching it to the roll to simulate a cut-off branch, and then at the least, dusting it with powdered sugar to simulate snow and at the most, decorating it with meringue mushrooms and perhaps chocolate mice to create a woodland effect. Sounds like a lot of work, right? That&amp;#039;s why in all years of baking, I&amp;#039;ve never made one.   Well last weekend, for the first holiday party of the season, I created something similar with a lot less effort (photo, right). I baked up a chocolate cake in the Stump de No\u00EBl Cake Pan ($36 exclusively at Williams Sonoma), basically a bundt pant with an exterior design that looks like tree bark. At the same time I tested out the Baked Chocolate Malt Cake Mix ($19.95) which I was very anxious to try because it was developed by Baked, an artisanal bakery in my hometown, Brooklyn, NY. Along with the cake mix, you get chocolate and instructions to prepare a chocolate cream topping. But how fancy you make a stump is up to you. You can buy a chocolate cake mix, dust it with powdered sugar and be done with it or you can prepare your favorite scratch bundt-recipe, glaze the cake, and garnish the platter with homemade meringue mushrooms if you&amp;#039;re up to the task.   (How was the mix? It yielded a delicious very fine-grained chocolate cake with a slight flavor of malt.) If you&amp;#039;re a purist, you can off course bake the classic Yule log from one of our triple-tested recipes for either a Mocha, Brandied, or Caramel B\u00FBche de No\u00EBl and whip up our Coffee Meringue Mushrooms to decorate the platter. Whether you bake a b\u00FBche or a stump, be sure to take a picture and share it with us. Want to learn how we put consumer products to the test and keep you safe? Sign up for a tour of the famous Good Housekeeping Research Institute. If you visit, be sure to say hello when you come by the Kitchen Appliances &amp;amp;amp; Technology Lab. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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