Chef Hana created this delicious winter holiday season cake using instead of flour, cassava and chufa (a nut free starch commonly refer to as tiger nut.) If you haven’t experimented with them, they do behave differently than gluten-free flours and absorb quite a bit of liquid. The cake batter also looks different - more separated once mixed, hence the addition of some tapioca flour for extra binding. The sponge is also more crumbly than one made with gluten-free flours so H

The Yule Log was a tradition that originated in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Iron Age peoples would gather to feast the first day of winter and burn a massive log decorated with pine cones, holly, and ivy. Wine and salt were also used to anoint the Yule Logs. As Christianity took hold, and smaller hearths became the norm in Europe, making the smaller log shaped cakes became more prevalent than burning the massive logs as had been done in times past. The tradition of crea