In South America, especially in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Chile, it is a Christmas dinner staple and in some places replaces roscón de reyes / bolo rei ( King cake ).

This derivation received credence and acceptability at the turn of the century, and is likely to be the foreunner of the more recent Christmas cake.

* Palette AOC ; the little village of Palete, four kilometres east of Aix-en-Provence, has long been famous for the production of a vin cuit, or fortified wine, used in the traditional Provence Christmas dessert, the Thirteen desserts, and the Christmas cake called pompo à l ' oli, or the olive-oil pump.

For example, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cakes for first communion, Christmas cakes, Halloween cakes and Passover plava ( a type of sponge cake sometimes made with matzo meal ) are all identified primarily according to the celebration they are intended to accompany.

Particular types of cake may be associated with particular festivals, such as stollen or chocolate log ( at Christmas ), babka and simnel cake ( at Easter ), or mooncake.

There has been a long tradition of decorating an iced cake at Christmas time ; other cakes associated with Christmas include chocolate log and mince pies.

In Yorkshire and North East England it is often eaten with fruit cake or Christmas cake.

Around Christmas time, the boy's mother makes a three-layer cake for him to take to his father in jail.

Grandma Moses told reporters that she turned to painting in order to create the postman's Christmas gift, seeing as it " was easier to make painting than to bake a cake over a hot stove.

In Canada, rutabagas are used as filler in foods such as mincemeat and Christmas cake, or as a side dish with Sunday dinner in Atlantic Canada.

Many families make the creation of Christmas cards a family endeavour and part of the seasonal festivity, along with stirring the Christmas cake and decorating the tree.

* Bejgli ( cake roll eaten at Christmas and Easter )

In the United Kingdom, they are usually called simply " currants ", and often are used in scones, currant buns, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding and mincemeat.

When presenting her Christmas cake recipe she once justified the cost of ingredients, saying " But on the other hand, we do want one piece of decent cake in the year.

In Portugal, a fava bean ( usually referred to as fava in Portuguese ) is included in the bolo-rei ( king cake ), a Christmas cake.

* In Portugal and Spain a Christmas cake called bolo Rei in Portuguese and roscón de reyes in Spanish ( King's cake ) is baked with a fava bean inside.

* Kourabiedes, Christmas cookies made by kneading flour, butter and crushed roasted almonds, then generously dusted with powdered sugar.

It was not until the 1830s that the cannon-ball of flour, fruits, suet, sugar and spices, all topped with holly, made a definite appearance, becoming more and more associated with Christmas.

As a Christmas pastry, Stollen was baked for the first time at the Saxon Royal Court in 1427, and was made with flour, yeast, oil and water.

Spritzgebäck is a type of German Christmas biscuit made of eggs, butter, sugar, and flour.

The česnica is usually made with wheat flour and baked on Christmas Eve or early Christmas morning by the head of household or the woman of the house.

It is a steamed dessert which consists of flour, baking powder, sugar, whole eggs, vanilla aroma, and cocoa powder or chocolate mixed together to make a batter and steamed or baked similar to Christmas pudding.

In the middle of the spectrum is the mincemeat Christmas cake, which is any traditional or vegetarian mincemeat, mixed with flour, eggs, etc., to transform it into a cake batter ; or it can also be steamed as a Christmas pudding.

* Melomakarona, " honey macaroons ", Christmas cookies soaked with a syrup of diluted honey ( méli in Greek ) and then sprinkled with crushed walnuts.

* Kutia: traditional Christmas dish, made of poppy seeds, wheat, nuts, honey, and delicacies.

They are eaten with honey at the beginning of Christmas Eve's dinner.

There are also apple, pear and plum orchards around the lake as well as vegetable, hay, honey, nursery tree, Christmas tree, sod / turf and wheat production bordering or near the lake.

As in Sicily, this is eaten only during the Christmas season and, like the Sicilian dish, its basic preparation ( boiled wheat and honey instead of sugar ) remains strikingly similar.

The two men had Christmas presents delivered to each other every year ( Wolters sent Speer a ham, while receiving a pot of honey ).

Pandoro ( pan d ' oro ) is a traditional Italian sweet yeast bread, most popular around Christmas and New Year.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

In some regions of Italy, it is served with crema di mascarpone, a cream made from mascarpone, eggs, sometimes dried or candied fruits, Italian bakers produce some 117 million panettone and pandoro cakes every Christmas — worth 579 million euros.

Many terrestrial crustaceans ( such as the Christmas Island red crab ) mate seasonally and return to the sea to release the eggs.

Seasonal eggs are introduced around the holidays, such as the limited-edition creche collections ( featuring such characters as the three kings, baby Jesus, and assorted barnyard animals ) found around Christmas, and the huge ones found at Easter ( extremely popular in Italy ).

In legend, the creature brings colored eggs in his pouch, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Father Christmas, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holiday.

On Easter Sunday the peasant family perhaps might owe an extra dozen eggs, and at Christmas a goose was perhaps required too.

In Portugal, it is called fatias douradas, rabanadas or fatias de parida, and is typically made during Christmas, from slices of bread leftovers ( when it is too hard to be eaten normally ) soaked in milk or water to soften it, dipped in beaten eggs, fried in the least amount of vegetable oil possible ( to prevent it from soaking up and becoming too greasy ) and then sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, soaked in a syrup made with water, sugar, cinnamon sticks and lemon skin or in Port or Madeira wine.

In Bates ' poem, Mrs. Claus wheedles a Christmas Eve sleigh-ride from a reluctant Santa in recompense for tending their toy and bonbon laden Christmas trees, their Thanksgiving turkeys, and their " rainbow chickens " that lay Easter eggs.

It was traditionally made around the Christmas and Easter holidays ( often with hard boiled eggs baked into the loaves for the latter holiday ) as a round-shaped loaf, but today it is made and available year round.

These hampers – which contain luxury items such as Stilton cheese, champagne, Quails eggs and smoked salmon – remain popular today, especially at Christmas time and can cost ( as of 2008 ) anything from £ 35 up to £ 25, 000.

Christmas breakfast often consists of scrambled eggs, cold-cuts served with horseradish sauce, smoked or fried salmon, marinated salads, coffee, tea and cakes, i. e. chocolate cake, piernik ( gingerbread ), cakes, etc.

At the other end of the Christmas cake continuum, the apple crème Christmas cake is a rich mix of finely sliced apples, raisins and other fruit, with eggs, cream cheese, and heavy whipping cream.