Christmas Bread

🇩🇰Denmark

Aeblekage

Æblekage

Apple purée with caramelised breadcrumbs/macaroon crumbs and whipped cream.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Sugar Cake

Sugar Cake

Chewy confection of grated coconut cooked down with sugar, often tinted pink and flavoured with ginger or nutmeg; a classic Antiguan sweet treat; the mixture is often divided into two batches, one coloured pink and the other left white, poured one over the other to form a pink and white cake; found at markets and schoolyards; the sugar cake of Antigua.

🇱🇧Lebanon

Aish el Saraya

عيش السرايا

Toasted bread soaked in sugar syrup, layered under ashta or cream and finished with pistachios — a syrup-soaked Egyptian dessert.

🇲🇩Moldova

Alivenci

Maize flour beaten with fresh curd, eggs and soured cream, poured onto a cabbage or walnut leaf and baked into a squat golden cake.

🇷🇴Romania

Chocolate Layer Cake

Amandine

Squares of cocoa sponge soaked in rum syrup, layered with chocolate cream and covered in a hard chocolate fondant.

🇬🇷Greece

Amygdalopita

Αμυγδαλόπιτα

An almond sponge soaked in syrup and perfumed with orange blossom, cut into diamonds and served with Greek coffee across the mainland.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Ansom Chek

អន្សមចេក

Glutinous rice wrapped around a banana with coconut milk and black beans, rolled in banana leaves and steamed for hours.

🇦🇴Angola

Pavê de Ginguba

Layers of biscuit and ground-peanut cream chilled into a set icebox cake.