Door 17: Festive food quiz

Buche de Noel is a flourless chocolate cake normally filled with chocolate cream and rolled and covered in chocolate icing. It is also known as a 'Yule log'. This dessert eaten near Christmas originated in France during the 19th century.

This savoury dish is made with pickled herring, hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise, and grated root vegetables. It is traditionally served on the 7th of January.

This Ethiopian lamb stew is served during the holiday season, often with injera – a popular flatbread

Bibingka is made with Rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, water, and cooked in banana leaves. Bibingka is served for breakfast or after Simbang Gabi – a nine-day series of Filipino Catholic masses leading up to Christmas.

In Canada, this delicious pastry is popular during Thanksgiving and Christmas. Butter tarts are made with butter, sugar, maple syrup, eggs and sometimes walnuts or raisins are added

Hangikjöt or hung meat has long been a popular traditional holiday dish in Iceland. It is most commonly served with green beans, potatoes with bechamel sauce and a side of pickled red cabbage

Bahn chung Is a popular dish eaten in Vietnam during Tết (Vietnamese New Year). It is made with sticky rice, pork, mung beans, green onions, fish sauce and spices.

Pavlova is a popular meringue-based dessert served at Christmas in New Zealand normally with Kiwi fruit and strawberries, but sometimes with other berries too. It is named after the ballerina Anna Pavlova following her visit to Australia and New Zealand In the 1920s.

In the United States, eggnog is normally consumed as part of Christmas celebrations. Drunk cold, it is made with milk cream sugar whipped egg whites and sometimes egg yolks. Cinnamon and nutmeg are commonly added. Some sneaky household may add brandy rum or whiskey.

Possibly saving the best for last, lebkuchen is German honey sweetened gingerbread. At Christmas, you can find hearts filled with jam or unfilled stars and circles covered in icing or chocolate. Fancy variations may incorporate almonds or sugar on top.