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
Gugelhupf Gugelhupf A Gugelhupf (also "Kugelhupf", "Guglhupf", "Gugelhopf", and, in France, "kouglof", "kougelhof", or "kougelhopf") is a yeast based cake (often with raisins), traditionally baked in a distinctive circular Bundt mold. It is popular in a wide region of Central Europe (sometimes known under a different name with small variations) including southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Hungary,Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Alsace. It is closely related Christmas cake in Italy known as the pandoro and to the American [bundt cake]. In late Medieval Austria, a Gugelhupf was served at major community events such as weddings, and was decorated with flowers,