it is called Madeleine or petite Madeleine is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France.
The French have a variety of cakes that they eat for Christmas, the houses that I have visited usually do a chocolate log. The links below will give you some examples of 'gateau noel'
French people used to eat "la bûche de Noël" ("Christmas log"), a log-shaped and decorated cake. It seems to be less popular now, even with newer, more dietetic versions of the cake.
In British, People eat Christmas cake followed by turkey
They do not celebrate Christmas, except for some, which just eat regular American Christmas food. they eat chrismas cake
They eat Christmas cake which is basically sponge cake with icing and fruit, and fried chicken.
Christmas cake, pastries, sweets, non-veg, etc. Mostly christian people drinks wines & vodkas for celebration of 31st night as well as for Christmas.
At Christmas many Italians eat a cake called "pannetone".
sherburn high
Stollen, it is a type of fruit cake with a buch of different spices
turkey ham cookies candy fruit cake
They eat crepes and other french food
sweet meats and mostly curries.
The name of the cake that the Spanish eat on the last day of Christmas is Rosca de Reyes.