Merry Christmas 2013

Christmas Pudding, not cake. Often served with Brandy Butter (butter with brandy and sugar creamed into it) and/or cream as a desert at the main Christmas meal.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03113/Christmas-Pudding_3113766b.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/christmaspudding_71054

Christmas Cake is something different; a rich fruit cake, usually covered with marzipan and icing, and often steeped since about September in as much brandy as it can be coaxed into holding without actually falling apart. Delicious with Cheddar cheese and a glass of port as part of, e.g., a light(er) Christmas supper. Although that's very much a Yorkshire way of eating it; other parts of the country haven't worked out just how good it is yet.
http://www.thegreatbritishdiet.co.uk/Images/IcedChristmasCake.JPG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/christmascake_2359

Puddings are steamed. Cakes are baked. Although, to confuse things completely, there are plenty of places in the country where the desert course of a meal, of any sort, is called "pudding".

This is inaccurate, the flame is actually a bright blue when you burn it.

@Blockm4n It's better than a methanol flame, which has no color. The flame is completely invisible to humans.

@Blockm4n #9784328

Humon might have gone with more common orange-ish flames so it would be more understandable as a cartoon.

It's a safer tradition than putting candles on a large piece of tinder (aka a xmas tree) and lighting them =p

@Dev unless you fell off and it burns down the christmas tree

@Dev Well we have *electric* candles for the tree now. Other candles may be lit elsewhere for a while and always put out before bed. Can't you at least put it on the table before lighting it?

What a lovely tradition!

my famaly actuly does this, we leav our cake or puding or whatever a little undercooked and then pour alchahole on it and then cook the rest of it

For every holiday and special event, there should be a tradition of setting at least something on fire or else it cannot be considered an actual holiday or special event.

Oh Hey! It's my grandmother's cooking!

I approve of this tradition so very much.
Don't burn the mistletoe- who'll eat it by accident now?!

BURN!!

You do realize that England looks like the Master from DW...