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Christmas Cake Customs |
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Christmas is a great celebration time for the family. Children awaits with excitement for Santa to bring them goodies, trees are laden with twinkling lights and gifts and mummies are engrossed in Christmas Cake preparations. Christmas Cake Customs varies with various countries of the world. |
Christmas cake customs are unique in each country with their distinct methods of preparation. Taste the various Christmas Cake Customs of the following countries:Christmas Cake Customs
The traditional French Christmas Cake is called the "Buche de Nol”. It is a sponge cake prepared in the shape of Yule log. This cake is a special feature of the Le reveillon - a grand feast of the season celebrated after midnight mass on Christmas Eve.Christmas Cake Customs
A traditional England Christmas cake is a rich baked fruit cake with marzipan, icing and sugar frosting. The butter cream or fresh cream cake has been the popular Japanese Christmas Cake. Panettone is the traditional Christmas cake of Italy. These cakes are baked with candied fruit, nuts and almonds. Peasant folklore theorizes that to eat nuts favors the fertility of the earth and aids in the increase of flocks and family.Christmas Cake Customs
In each Greek house it is tradition to bake the so called Christmas cakes or Kouloures. They are made of dough. Each family's profession comprises the theme for Christmas cake decoration like the farmers are drawing a plough, cattle, grapes etc. Even today it is customary to place a coin in the cakes and whoever wins that coin is considered to be the lucky person throughout the year. Some of the most impressive Christmas cakes are the Sarakatsanika decorated with scenes from pastoral life.Christmas Cake Customs
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