Quote Originally Posted by cruiser348 View Post
Yule cake is a cake which has some sort of a filling normally a cream which is moistened with simple syrup so that it can be rolled. It's made to look like a yule log when it is finished. An aunt of mine used to make one that looked like it had mushrooms growing on it and she would use powdered sugar to look like snow on the log.

Just curious if they were red mushrooms with white dots - these Amanita Muscaria mushrooms have been popular with Christmas symbolism at least back to the early 1900's (some postcards and Christmas tree ornaments I've seen online). Some say that these mushrooms and the northern Siberian reindeer herding Sami people with their shamans (who ate these powerful mushrooms) have given some symbolism to modern Christmas.
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(I've never tried these mushrooms and it's advisable for anyone not to just eat random wild mushrooms as some can be toxin and deadly)