For those who love a traditional-feeling Christmas, a Yule log cake is one of the most timeless Christmas desserts to bake.

Any other old-school English majors out there tasked with memorizing and then reciting the prologue of The Canterbury Tales in Old English back in the day? If so, chances are, you haven’t recovered.

A Yule log is a Christmas tradition in which a log of wood is progressively burned in a fireplace over several nights. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.