Christmas dinner fruits, chocolate, raisins, and/or pine nuts, known as panettone, followed by "torrone" (enriched with cherries, chocolate, sweets and more), nougat and nuts. In Southern Italy instead of one cake they serve many kinds of marzipan, biscuits, zeppole, cannoli, candied fruits, and fresh fruits. In the last few decades, panettone has become popular as a Christmas sweet all over Italy. Pandoro is also a very popular cake at Christmas and New Year, accompanied by a good Champagne. One typical Dutch tradition is that of 'gourmet,' an evening-long event where small groups of people sit together around a gourmet-set and use their
King cake was called "king of the feast." In the "galette des Rois", since 1870 the beans have been replaced first by porcelain and now by plastic figurines. Now replaced by the Christmas cake, a similar tradition was also followed in the United Kingdom. The cake traditionally celebrating Epiphany in France and Quebec is sold in most bakeries during the month of January. Three versions exist: in northern France, Quebec, and Belgium the cake called "galette des rois" in French or "Koningentaart" in Flemish/Dutch (which can be either circular or rectangular) consists of flaky puff pastry layers with a dense center of