#i mistakenly thought using this cake carrier thing would make it easier to store but i was extremely wrong

[recurring-polynya]

Happy New Year! I spent all day making a Yule Log!

Recipe

I accidentally rolled it short-ways instead of long ways, but I think it was okay.

Some modifications I made: - A lot of the comments said that it didn't have much flavor punch, and the King Arthur people recommended brushing it with simple syrup, so I mixed up this recipe for coffee simple syrup, altho I only used 1T of Kahlua, because this was mostly for my kids. It made the cake very moist, and a little ugly when I unrolled it, but since everything gets covered with icing, it wasn't that big a deal and it was quite moist and tasty (a lot of people in the comments felt it was dry or rubbery) - The filling calls for 2t of vanilla, but I subbed out 1 of them for Fiori di Sicilia, because I thought a hint of orange flavor would be nice with the chocolate. It was probably too much-- 1/2t would have been better, or maybe just some orange zest.