Traditional Christmas Desserts Around the World

Christmas sweets from the countries that bake them, one photo per dessert, for anyone planning a holiday table with a few ideas borrowed from abroad. To earn a place, a dessert has to belong to the Christmas season in its home country, anywhere from Advent baking to Epiphany, and be something a home baker can recognize and attempt. Drinks such as eggnog are left out. The gallery starts in Britain, travels across western, northern, central and eastern Europe, comes down through Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, then heads to the Caribbean, Australia, the Philippines and Japan.