Christmas log

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my friends! How I like this season. The entire city is embellished and illuminated. I enjoy walking on the street or doing the widow shopping accompanying the rhythms of the festival music. Passing everywhere, like a house, a store, an office building, is visiting a place of interest. I look with delight the Christmas trees hanging with various ornaments, the green wreathes with red ribbons, the golden bells, the colorfu...l and sparkling balls. Hardly find a same design in different places. The holiday ambiance makes me feel warm-hearted and joyful. The thing that I like the best to do is to walk into the pastry shops and have my eyes feast on the special cakes for this festival, Christmas (or Yule) logs. We must salute the chef in Paris who invented this log-shape cake in 1940s. (I have the curiosity about the origins of the pastries. I have already did some research on Yule log. Traditionally people light a large log in the hearth on Christmas Eve. It will be burned there until the New Year. Then people gather the ashes and throw them in the house for the good luck of the coming year. When the hearth becomes less used, they found a sweet way to keep their tradition. The idea is to make the cake resemble a real log relying on the magic of the cream. But the detailed decorations are different in different pastry shops. I can not stop saying wow in my heart when I see those cake rolls made by the creative and artistic cake makers. How they are beautiful! The icing on the top or around the cake looks like the real snow. The top of the cake may be decorated with a snowman, a cabin, a reindeer with a sledge, or a Santa clause. I am marveled by the fine work of the cake master. They make the two ends of the cake roll look exactly like the cross-section of a chopped-off branch. I have bought one and enjoyed it with my friends. It is fragrant and delicious!