Every Christmas, we dress it up, decorate it, and put little baubles on it. It’s the humble sponge cake we’re talking about, which gets a makeover into the yule log during the festive season. In time for the holidays, here is where to find the best log cakes in Singapore this Christmas 2024.
A log cake is just a Swiss roll in a Christmas sweater. Making either one of them starts with spreading buttercream over sponge cake and twisting it into a roulade. However, the log cake sets itself apart with a textured icing coat that resembles tree bark. The ends are also left bare to symbolise a cut branch. To really give the impression of winter, it can be dusted with powdered sugar to mimic snow.
Some of the more classic log cakes in Singapore in 2024 include Pan Pacific’s rendition flavoured with Guanaja chocolate and the Grandma chocolate log cake from Shangri-La. Similarly, St. Regis has rolled out the traditional log cake with caramel smoothie, bitter chocolate mousse, hazelnut praline sponge, and crunch chocolate nibs. For a halal version, turn to Swissbake for its chocolate caramel yule log cake.
Other restaurants are updating the yule log. Monti combines it with a tiramisu. Koma adds in peanut butter. Kaarla marries it with the quintessential Australian dessert, lamington. Grand Hyatt makes it tropical with coconut and lime. For a local twist, there’s Chin Mee Chin Confectionery and its kaya- and gula melaka-flavoured log cakes. And is it a fruit basket, or is it a log cake from Cedric Grolet? Discover them below.
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Best log cakes in Singapore for Christmas 2024
Amara
Add a local flavour to the festive season with Amara’s ondeh ondeh Christmas log cake. The pandan-flavoured sponge is finished with a dusting of coconut flakes and comes with a dropper of gula melaka. There’s also the blueberry chocolate yule log cake coated with chocolate ganache.
SGD 63 (HKD 360) each
November 28 – December 26, 2024
(Amara Singapore)
Breadtalk
Breadtalk’s three log cakes for the festive season includes the whimsical Forest Gnome Log, which recreates a magical woodland with hazelnut cream, red currants, strawberries, blackberries, and rosemary. Then climb aboard Santa’s Sleigh decked out with dark chocolate and brown sugar mousse on a chocolate chiffon base. Available only for preorder, the Cherry Yuletide combines chocolate chiffon, cherry marshmallow, cherry mousse, and dark cherries.
The log cakes are available at all Breadtalk locations in Singapore except Great World City, 313 Somerset, Raffles City Shopping Centre, and United Square.
From SGD 52.80 (HKD 301.65)
November 4 – December 25, 2024
(Image credit: Breadtalk)
Cedric Grolet
Cedric Grolet does yule logs in the only way he knows how: by turning them into lifelike fruits and flowers. The Signature Flowers features a sponge cake of coconut, passionfruit, mango, and lime topped with a floral arrangement made from white, cream and orange frosting. For the Signature Fruits, it showcases a blend of lemon, orange, and grapefruit topped with mini fruit marmalade. And yes, the basket fashioned out of Japanese biscuits is edible.
SGD 125 (HKD 714) each
December 11-31, 2024
(Image credit: Cedric Grolet)
Chin Mee Chin Confectionery
Homegrown bakery Chin Mee Chin gives the yule log a local spin with two flavours for Christmas 2024, kaya and gula melaka. The first is a soft and fluffy sponge cake coated with kaya cream and sprinkled with coconut flakes, while the latter is glazed with gula melaka cream.
From SGD 38+ (HKD 217+)
Available now
(Image credit: Chin Mee Chin Confectionery)
Claudine
Claudine reimagines the traditional yule log into the chocolate Christmas log cake, which is made with layers of chocolate and hazelnut praline, and topped with crispy feuilletine. The log cake is available for takeaway and is on their festive menu together with kumquat duck pate en croute, beef Wellington, and roasted Norwegian scallops. Email to order.
SGD 58+ (HKD 331.33+)
December 1-31, 2024
(Image credit: Claudine)
Grand Hyatt
Grand Hyatt is celebrating its first Christmas since its 2024 revamp with three yule log cakes. Each weighing 1kg, the coconut praline and lime log cake adds a tropical twist, and the raspberry cream cheese log cake offers a tangy and velvety experience. For traditionalists, there’s the chocolate log cake.
SGD 80 (HKD 457) each
November 8-25, 2024
(Image credit: Grand Hyatt Singapore)
Kaarla Wood-Fire Grill & Bar
Kaarla combines one of Australia’s iconic desserts with a yule log this Christmas 2024. The golden lamington log cake slips in layers of coconut cream, white chocolate ganache, and raspberry mousse in between Malibu liqueur-infused sponge cake, which is finished with a citron glaze and a coating of desiccated coconut. The log cake is available in sizes of 600g or 1kg.
From SGD 55+ (HKD 314.20+)
December 1-25, 2024
(Image credit: Kaarla Wood-Fire Grill & Bar)
Koma
Contemporary Japanese restaurant and bar, Koma, has a peanut butter log cake to mark Christmas 2024. The treat features an airy vanilla sponge cake layered with creamy peanut butter filling. Other items created for the season include the pistachio raspberry cake and the floral Cloud Nine cocktail, which is topped with yoghurt foam.
Call 6688 8690 to order the log cake. It is also available for dine-in.
SGD 88+ (HKD 502.70+)
December 12-26, 2024
(Image credit: Koma Singapore)
Monti
Italian restaurant takes the tiramisu and turns it into a log cake for Christmas 2024. Like the espresso-soaked original, their version has sponge fingers doused in coffee and marsala wine, coffee cremeux, and mascarpone cream coated with white chocolate and a dusting of cocoa. Available in sizes of 600g or 1kg.
From SGD 60+ (HKD 342.75+)
December 1-25, 2024
(Image credit: Monti)
Pan Pacific
Of the two yule logs from Pan Pacific, the Guanaja chocolate noir log cake features Valrhona’s iconic 70-percent dark chocolate, which blends the aromatic profiles of cocoa from Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar. It is joined by the Festive Golden cheese and apple caramel log cake. Both yule logs are also available as part of the hotel’s Christmas bundles.
From SGD 88 (HKD 502.70)
November 1 – December 26, 2024
(Image credit: Pan Pacific Singapore)
Shangri-La
Shangri-La’s Snow White log cake has undulating blue and white swirls of yoghurt, white chocolate Opalys whipped ganache, granola croustillant, and berry cremeux sprinkled with gold dust. The triple truffle crunchy log cake features rich cocoa sponge filled with hazelnut crunch, Gianduja cremeux, and truffle praline mousse. Grandma chocolate log cake is a classic log-shaped cake with chocolate sponge and chocolate buttercream, while the Santa Sleigh rolls up with chiffon sponge, yuzu curd, fraises compote, vanilla chantilly, and fresh strawberries.
From SGD 78 (HKD 445.60)
November 23 – December 26, 2024
(Image credit: Shangri-La Singapore)
St. Regis
The St. Regis is celebrating Christmas this year with two yule logs. For purists, the traditional log cake features caramel smoothie, bitter chocolate mousse, hazelnut praline sponge, and crunchy chocolate nibs. The nougat and pistachio log cake updates the classic with nougat cream, pistachio smoothie, crunchy pistachio praline, and mandarin compote.
SGD 79+ (HKD 451.30+) each
November 25 – January 1, 2025
(Image credit: St. Regis Singapore)
Swissbake
If you have Muslim friends around the table during the festive season, Swissbake has got your back. Next to roasted meats and festive sides, the halal-certified food retailer has two yule logs for the season. The first is the chocolate caramel yule log cake with layers of chocolate sponge and caramel. The other is the speculoos biscoff yule log cake decked out with spiced speculoos cookies and a creamy filling.
SGD 65 (HKD 371.30+) each
December 1-26, 2024
(Image credit: Swissbake)
This story first appeared here.
(Featured image credit: Cedric Grolet)
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The information in this article is accurate as of the date of publication.
