One of the most popular Christmas dishes is log cake.

The custom of burning Christmas trees may date back to the Middle Ages or earlier.

Christmas Eve can be a whole tree trunk or a very large log, carefully selected by the fire and brought into the house in a festive ceremony, including singing, cider and beer.

This log will be filled with beer and burned with the remains of last year’s log, carefully stored and slowly burned throughout the 12 days of Christmas holidays.

The custom of burning Christmas trees is in many countries

In England, lighting a winter night bonfire is called Yuletide, derived from the Old English word Yule.

In Provence (France), traditionally, families will cut wood together every night and grow old.

This custom is similar to that in some parts of the Netherlands, but the log is kept under the bed.

In Cornwall (England), the log is called “The Mock”.

In general, the custom of the “Christmas tree” appeared throughout Europe, and different types of wood were used in different countries.

In Serbia, Croatia and northern Montenegro, a large log called Banjak is burned on Christmas Eve.

In Devon and Somerset, England, some people use large bundles of ash instead of logs.

In some parts of Ireland, people light a large candle instead of a log, and this candle is only lit on New Year’s Eve and Twelfth Night.

However, today most families use gas heating systems, so burning wood for heating is no longer necessary.

A log cake consists of a chocolate cake filled with chocolate cream rolled into a cylinder and covered with a thick layer of bark-shaped chocolate cream, then dusted with powdered sugar to create a decorative, falling snow effect. with holly, berries and even little nightingales

From Western countries, this type of cake has now been introduced to Vietnam, becoming a hot menu during Christmas days.

Just typing the keyword “banh khuc” on social networks will bring up hundreds of different results with many different prices, from a few million VND at large stores Paris Gateaux, Poeme Bakery to several hundred thousand at other stores. Small shops like Bep Chuong./.