Why is cake a must for CHRISTMAS ???

my mom used to make the most amazing red velvet cake and she only made it at christmas time becuase it was so much work. i am not a baker (nor a very good cook for that matter) so i will just have to remember the past! lol

Cake is mandatory for christmas? I didn't know, since in my home country nobody eats cake for christmas. The other day I heard something about eating cake here and I asked why. Maybe is a custom in the country I live now too and I didn't know. Customs change from one country to another.

Hello titansaha this is checkmail and me too often had cakes at mine chritmas celebrations.We would contribute an equal amount from each one of us and would buy it and eat it on ocassion oo cristmas.Though like many variety of cakes, fav is the pastries(dessert cake).Its good to have cake at our menu at christmas eve, with lots of chocolates and sweets.But now as being staying home for this christmas would think of baking it, yeah i can prepare it but less creamy.Cake is good food at christmas as it just melts in our mouth with its sweet taste in it.I like to enjoy mine christmas cake, it depends upon the day whether its eggless or not.Happy Mylotting.

I don't know any history behind it but in my opinion, people associate cakes with happy days like birthdays and anniversaries so since Christmas is meant to be merry, there's nothing wrong with preparing cakes. we often have cakes during Christmas but I think Christmas "food" will still be complete even without it. :D

CAKE is a must?... I don't think so... we celebrated Christmas with or without cake for many years, and I don't think that cake is necessary in the celebration. But maybe for some reason people buy Christmas Cake as a birthday cake for the celebrant. Christmas is the commemoration of Christ birth so some people buy cake as a birthday cake. In my opinion, cake is not a must or any food... instead the real essence of the celebration should be the main focus. But I love cakes too... maybe I should buy one for this coming Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas.

cake is very staple food. it is a very delicious. it makes all happy. it is in childhood memory that my father used to give me every holiday and chrismas. still it is smell in my memory. i will die with the smell and memory of cake. i too also give cake to my familymembers always .

i don't think that there is any story behind the cake.i think in all the cultures of the world we celebrate our festivals by eating something sweet.in most indian festivals we dont buy cake but we celebrate by eating other indian sweets.in western culture since a cake is the most popular sweet dish,it is probably used or bought for someone.

cake and ice cream is what i didn't see in the celebration of our Christmas but maybe in other house, yes, only cheese balls, spaghetti, carbonara, ham, and cheese, barbecue, lechon, barbecued chicken, or fried chicken and fruit salad.

I do not think its traditional to have cakes for Christmas. It might be in certain regions where people like to make cakes for Christmas. Cakes might not be popular all over the world. People like to celebrate festivals with different sort of food items. In your region cakes must be popular. Enjoy it.

Christmas cake that is a cake that only one person eats in our house as noone else likes it so i will normally get a small Christmas cake as the rest of it get given to the dogs or even the chickens.I never liked it as a child neither do i like Christmas pudding as it has all that dried fruit in it and i do not like dried fruit at all as it brings me out in a rash.I think it is more of a tradition than anything else.

because the cake is sweet...cake are the symbol of sweetness in every family, during this a special day..

My family has never had cake for Christmas. :o We do always make Christmas cookies, though. It kind of became a tradition after making cookies year after year, when I was a kid, to leave for Santa. I have heard of Christmas "log" cakes as well as Christams fruit cakes, though. But I don't think they're that popular.

If you are referring to the Christmas log "cake" that we eat during the holidays, it comes from an old pagan tradition. It comes from a ritual called Yuletide, a pagan festival of fire. The yule log was lit to protect homes from fire and lightning all through the year. Nowadays, we have lost the meaning of the yule log but it's still a tradition to have christmas log into our homes.

In every ocassion, having cake is a must. May it be a birthday, christening, anniversaries, christmas and etc. For me those celebrations wouldnt be complete without a cake since im a cake lover. Usually I buy chocolate cake.

Cake???? I don't think I've ever had cake for Christmas. Christmas cookies, fudge and homemade caramels around here. My favorite is fudge though!!! I think I need to do some extra exercise to work off all those fudge calories though.