Cakes and Hats are like eggnog and mistletoe in Korea.
They are lavishly decorated. It's like a christmas tree you can eat.
cute, huh?
The decorations on top are made out of hard sugar and I wouldn't recommend you eat it.
Korean Christmas Cakes look almost too good to eat.
Here is Kim Tae-Hee with her hat.
Here are an army of cakes.
Dunkin Donuts even got into the fray this year. They had a polar bear theme.
Baskin Robbins went with penguins.
You can't celebrate Christmas in Korea without a Christmas cake. The Korean blogosphere has had numerous posts on the subject...here, here,, and here.
I think it's pretty cool that Korea is so into Christmas Cakes. The cakes represent the Korean idea of Christmas. Gift exchange is not big here, but the idea of getting together and sharing is.
The hats...I don't know what that represents. The hats are all marketing. Paris Baguette did campaign 2 years ago where they sold Christmas hats and now everyone has jumped on board.
I'm a fan of the hats, not the cakes. The cakes are cute, but not so tasty. They are way, way too sweet with an excessive amount of frosting...Korea has yet to impress me with cake.
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