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
Epiphany (holiday) and all three are eaten without speaking a word, it is said that the wish will come true. The Christmas tree is traditionally taken out of the house on Epiphany. While the term "loppiainen" means "ending [of Christmas time]," in reality, Christmas celebrations in Finland are extended to "Nuutti's" or St. Canute's Day on January 13, completing the Scandinavian Twenty Days of Christmas. In France people share one of two types of king cake. In the northern half of France and Belgium the cake is called a "galette des Rois," and is a round, flat, and golden cake made with