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The Danes usually celebrate New Year’s Eve, or nytårsaften in Danish, with their families or, more commonly nowadays, with their close friends, with fireworks and champagne. The evening meal on New Years Eve is often more exclusive, and often consists of three courses; traditional deserts include Marzipan ring cake (Danish: kransekage, lit.: ring cake). Danes often watch the Queen’s New Years Speech on television. The climax is when the clock on the Copenhagen City Hall reaches twelve, and the thousands of gathered people at the city square cheer and set off their fireworks. As in Germany the national television station DR1 broadcasts Dinner for One (in Danish: 90 års fødselsdagen (lit.: The 90th birthday)).
