/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13287254
Interesting question.
Part of germany is french, so german cuisine is part of french cuisine and we have Stollen. There's also the Kouglof, but that's not christmas-specific as far as I know.

The traditional christmas cake in france is the Bûche de Noël, a roll cake decorated with buttercream to look like a log, in a variation of an old tradition to burn the biggest log you could find on christmas (they burned it by the middle, and put gifts on its ends).
But I hear that it was invented only in the 19th century. and became popular in the 20th.

In the north of france there was also the Cougnou (lots of different but similar names for that), some sort of brioche, it could have been made with dried fruits but i'm not sure. It was a small cake to be given as a gift to each child, not one big cake to share.