Bouche du Noel

I don't know where you buy one, but I recently made one from semi-scratch, and it was dead easy because
I used an anngel food cake mix and Cool Whip to frost it, filled with crushed raspberries and Cool Whip, and decorated with (you guessed it) raspberries. You could buy a marzipan mushroom or woodland creature for a little more verisimilitude, but it sure did look like a snowy log.

(I had nothing to do with ingredient choice btw - this was a very specific request. Cool Whip ain't half bad....)

The only trick is to roll it up in a clean dish towel while it's hot out of the oven, so it retains that shape. You let it cool, then gently unroll to fill and frost it.

You make a diagonal cut on the end and use that bit as a small branch.
Good luck!

SamosetSal wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. You're right, it wouldn't be so hard to do this. What stumped me was doing the meriengue mushrooms actually. I wonder where I would find those. I'll look into it. It might be fun once I get started.

You can make those.
http://www.joyofbaking.com/MeringueMushrooms.html
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Meringue-Mushrooms/Detail.aspx

This one has nice pictures:
http://www.camellia.org/kitchen/meringue-mushrooms.html

Saw Bûche de Noël for sale at Dean and Deluca downtown . . . $120, special order only. I have to say, they look the same as what any skilled 9th grader makes for French class . . .
jeeeez