Cakes

It is a gift fit for a king, or three: a gold coin slipped by a Belgian baker inside a traditional flaky Epiphany Three Kings cake baked to perfection.

Instead of the usual bean, Brussels baker Luc de Weerdt opted for the more luxurious prize of small round 18-carat gold coins, stamped with his bakery's logo.

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The western Athens suburb of Peristeri is hoping to break a record this year, presenting a 5-ton "vassilopita" at its annual New Year's event on Tuesday afternoon on the main square outside City Hall.

The traditional cake will stretch across an area of more than 300 square meters and will contain over 200 tokens corresponding to small gifts in its 35,000 pieces.

St Paul's Anglican Church is holding its popular annual sing-along Christmas service from 8 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, December 16. There will be carols and songs for all the family, as well as mulled wine and stollen (there is a small charge for this).

So it is a sponge! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding cake was a good old Victorian sponge cake. Though it is one of the classics in British baking, having a sponge cake for a royal wedding is a huge shift from the tradition of British wedding cakes. According to custom, it had to be a fruitcake with royal icing.

"Keks" may be a parody of pop, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming a hit in poet and copywriter Konstantin Trendafilov's native Bulgaria. Despite a music video that resembles a "Callanetics" exercise routine from the 1980s and features two women dressed in spandex singlets, the song is full of sexual innuendo.

Pope Francis has blown out his birthday candle on an extra-long pizza at the Vatican to the delight of children.

Despite the fears of terrorist acts during the holidays, the Dresden Christmas Market was discovered by eating a giant stollen.

The traditional Christmas cake was more than two meters long and was eaten for minutes in the square in front of the cathedral.

''There will be Europe, it is important in what format, the Minister in charge of Bulgaria's EU Council presidency in 2018'', Liliyana Pavlova, said during a discussion, quoted by  FOCUS News Agency.