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Scoring the icing and adding some meringue mushrooms helps make the cake look more like a real log.100

Bake a Yule Log Cake!

Get recipes and frosting tips for baking a Yule Log Cake! Recipe variations (including gluten-free!), lots of great pictures and how-to frosting tips for decorating this fun holiday dessert.

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Yule, the Winter Solstice

Yule is the pre-Christian holiday celebrated on the Winter Solstice. Traditions include delicious feasts and gathering around a Yule log fire.

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Lavender fields are a common site in this region of Southeastern France. [Photos this page, public domain.]97

The Best French Christmas Recipes

Provence, France features not only fields of lavender and at least 7 locally-produced wines, but also centuries-old Christmas cuisine traditions that connect to the Easter Season of the Catholic Church as well. A seven-course meal with 13 desserts afterward is one of these traditions...

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Quince jellies or "quince paste", as they are known. They are sweet fruit gels rolled in sugar.93

The 13 Days of Christmas in Provence

21st century America is full of digital equipment in daily life and is becoming increasingly virtual. In order to regain our connection with nature, we can bring up some centuries-old tradition of food and festivity...

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The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas is a popular carol that dates back to the Middle Ages. Being much older than other popular Christmas carols, this one appears to have evolved rather than being composed and...

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Best Rockin' Christmas Songs For Your iPod

I’ve just realized how incredibly difficult it is to make a top 10 Christmas song list. So, I’ve decided to make 3 separate lists: Rockin’ Christmas Songs (that would be this one), Traditional Christmas...

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Wiccan Rituals

As each season comes and goes, the wheel of the year turns. A wheel is a wheel, there is no true end or beginning, it simply is and revolves upon it's axis endlessly. So it is with the festivals in the Wiccan...

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The Wheel of the Year, displaying the Pagan holidays.82

Modern Paganism

Learn about modern Pagansim and the Neo-Pagan community. Get info on Pagan holidays and read about how many people misunderstand what it is to be Pagan.

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Was Christ Born at Christmas?

Was Christ Born at Christmas? The Bible is silent on this subject. It seems the emphasis in the Bible is on the birth and not on the date of Christ's birth. Some hold to the idea that Christ may have been...

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A Traditional Scottish Christmas Dinner

Because Alison and myself believe that Christmas day is for the children,we have a buffet instead of a meal and save Christmas dinner until boxing day,the idea of the buffet is to let the children play with...

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