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Low-Carb Buche de Noel (My Guest Post)
December 21, 2015 By elviira 2 Comments
If you would like to create something festive for the holidays, be sure to check my guest post for my blogger friend Lisa and her fantastic Low Carb Yum blog.
I’ve always wanted to develop a recipe for sugar-free, gluten-free low-carb Buche de Noel (Yule Log), and this year I finally managed to do that! Chocolate cake roll, filled with creamy filling and frosted with decadent chocolate frosting. Mmmm… delicious!
I finally cracked the code to a low-carb cake roll that won’t crack! Well, for the first time I did it with my newsletter recipe for a Peanut Raspberry Cake Roll more or less by accident, and after that wanted to check and…
View Full Recipe at Low Carb, So Simple!
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