10 addresses where to find the best Yule logs
The Madeleine pastry shop (left) and Sachère Desserts (right) are among the best addresses for a tasty Yule log.
No holiday meal would be complete without a delicious yule log. Far be it from us to doubt your pastry skills, but it is not the easiest dessert to make. Here are 10 addresses where to get the best ones in town.
Sachère Desserts
The Village pastry shop, which we love for its gluten-free macaroons and matcha desserts, is offering three original and elegant yule logs this year for the holidays. For chocolate lovers, there is first the Madera, covered with pieces of chocolate, made with smoked chocolate mousse with black tea and a creamy heart with banana, feuillantine and salted caramel miso. Otherwise, for more fruity flavours, Sachère Dessert has created a vegan log, the Mosaïque, with passion fruit and mango and a gluten-free log, the Kamilia, with clementines, honey and chestnuts.
These three logs are available in three formats: log (for 2 to 3 people), regular log (for 4 to 6 people) or large format (for 6 to 8 people). The patisserie obviously has several other delicacies for Christmas, including a homemade gingerbread and a “cream puff tree”.
Mosaic
Kamilia
Madera Photos: courtesy, Sachère Desserts
Price: from 35$ – Online store
Address: 1274 boulevard de Maisonneuve Est
Miss Cakes
Specialized in particular in the confection of custom-made cakes, the two pastry chefs behind Miss Cakes, Isabelle Leroux and Fanny Thériault, have developed three new yule log recipes for the Holidays.
For a < em>look traditional, it will be necessary to opt for the orange chocolate rolled log. Otherwise, we will have the choice between apple, maple, sunflower or vanilla, strawberry and rhubarb flavors. Each of the three logs can be ordered in a 6 or 8 part format.
Apple-Maple
Chocolate-orange
Vanilla-Strawberry-Rhubarb Photos: Courtesy, Miss Cakes
Price: from $38.95 – Online store
Address: 363 rue Villeray
Pâtisserie Rhubarbe
Those who love desserts know that Rhubarbe is one of the best pastries in Montreal. For more than ten years, you can find very fine cakes there and the Christmas logs are no exception.
This year, we will have the choice between a rectangular manjari chocolate log ( a dark chocolate from Madagascar), pecans, caramel and mascarpone or a log rolled with passion fruit, yogurt, strawberries and (surprise!) rhubarb.
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Assortment of biscuits, kouglof with cherries, candied fruit cake, and even a “cabbage tree”, the pastry shop has planned a whole range of options to vary the pleasures at the end of the year.
Price: 45$ – Online store
Address: 1479 avenue Laurier Est
Chez Potier
The high-end bakery, pastry shop and delicatessen Chez Potier is one of the must-have gourmet addresses in Old Montreal. There are all kinds of savory and sweet delights and, for the holidays, panettones, gingerbread and four rather seductive logs: the vanilla log with flavors of crème brûlée, the chocolate and raspberry “Mûroise”, the “Piémontella” with mango and yuzu hazelnuts and the tiramisu log made with grilled coffee ice cream from the local roaster.
Vanilla
Mûroise
Tiramisu
Piémontella Photos: courtesy, Chez Potier
Price: 72$ – Online store
Address: 630 rue Wellington
Pâtisserie Madeleine
The creations of patisserie Madeleine are generally as delicious as they are beautiful. According to the photos published on social networks, their three Yule logs are therefore likely to be particularly greedy! Between vanilla-caramel-almond, dulce de leche-clementine-pecan and chocolate-hazelnut-lemon combos. It's hard to choose.
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The patisserie has also created a dark chocolate and pistachio entremet especially for the New Year which will be in store on December 31.
From $40 – Orders by phone starting December 9 at 438-375-1952
Address: 2105 rue Beaubien Est
Fanfare
In this bakery on rue Jarry, you can find good bread, pastries, but also several pastries and, this month, a very appetizing Yule log. With its crunchy chocolate-caramel biscuit, chocolate mousse, hazelnut praline and rock icing, it's impossible to go wrong!
Photo: Courtesy, Fanfare
Price: $42 – Online store
Address: 751 rue Jarry Est
Café Bazin
Created in 2017 by chefs Antonio Park and Bertrand Bazin, Café Bazin serves both lunches and pastries. For the holidays, a strawberry-style Christmas “trunk” and three logs have been added to the menu. Because the simplest flavors are sometimes the best, we stick to the classics here with a strawberry charlotte log, an all-chocolate log and another with pistachios.
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Price: from $21 – Order before December 20
Address: 380 Victoria Avenue, Westmount
Fous Desserts
With these original and ultra-tasty desserts, the Plateau-Mont-Royal pastry shop lives up to its name. And yes, Yule logs are crazy! There are blends of surprising flavors such as dark chocolate-passion-apricot, caramel-pear-cloves-coffee-amaretto or vanilla-pineapple-geranium, each of the three logs offers a touch of originality.
Vanilla-pineapple
Chocolat-passion
Orelys-pear Photos: courtesy, Fous Desserts
Price: from $7.50 per share – https://fousdesserts.com/collections/noel-2022
Address: 809 avenue Laurier Est
Les Givrés
We love their ice cream in summer and winter alike and especially in the yule log version at Christmas! For those who didn't know it yet, Les Givrés create original frozen yule logs with adorable designs every year.
If you have retained your childlike soul, you will surely like the campfire log, the “iglu” or even “holy peace” in the shape of a chalet. Anyway, the choice is not lacking since the brand offers no less than seven different options, all based on homemade ice cream.
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Price: from $39 https://www.lesgivres.ca/
Arhoma
As we approach Holidays, Ahroma bakeries have also developed new Yule log recipes. And to do this, they were inspired by local products. the first is a white chocolate, orange and sweet clover rolled log, the second, more classic, is chocolate and pecan, and the third is a log with almonds, mascarpone mousse, blackcurrant and currants.
Mascarpone blackcurrant and currants
Choco-pecans
Orange and Sweet Clover Photos: Courtesy, Arhoma
Price: from $6.95 per unit – Online store
Addresses: 15 place Simon-Valois (Hochelaga) – 1700 Ontario Street East (Central-South)
