View History Of Christmas Yule Log Cake Pics. Families may have burned a log on christmas eve, but smaller. For as long as i can remember, a yule log cake and mince pies have been a traditional part of my family's christmas.
The burning of the yule log symbolized the new year to come and would bring good luck to the family.
The burning of the yule log symbolized the new year to come and would bring good luck to the family. A yule log is a traditional dessert, a christmas cake, served near christmas, especially in belgium, france, switzerland, canada, lebanon, syria, and several former french colonies such as vietnam. The cake represents the yule log that families would burn starting on christmas eve. The yule log sprang from the ancient celtic tradition of celebrating the winter solstice by locating and retrieving an enormous tree trunk (often with roots still attached) and burning it on the shortest day of the year.