Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell POP!
It’s the right time to dip the night away don’t you think.
It’s here! It’s here! And I’m super excited Cake Pops Holidays is available online and in stores and even at scholastic book fairs, too I hear.… just in time for some fun holiday cake popping!
And I know you guys are gonna bring some serious cuteness this Christmas. I’m constantly blown away by the cake pops you all share on the Bakerella Facebook page. I mean super, super, super stuff. I often find my jaw dropping.
I hope the book continues to inspire you to make lots of people happy this holiday season. Lots of sweet smiles.
The book is full of cute winter holiday cake pop projects just like these.
Elves, Santas, stockings, presents … and gingerbread houses, Christmas lights, dreidels, wreaths and more.
It has a wiro-binding like the first book.
So you can lay it flat while you dip.
And to celebrate I’m giving away five (5) copies of the book.… Signed if you’d like.
(The book is available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and Target, too.)
But that’s not all.
Each of the five winners will also be getting something else.
Something fun!
And something to have fun with!
The Cake Pops Toy that’s available at Toys R US…
It comes with all this cute stuff to play with. And help little ones make real cake pops with.
A toy for tiny treats.
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Enter for a chance to win Cake Pops Holidays and the Cake Pops Toy
- To enter the giveaway, just answer one of the following questions.
- How do you usually spend Christmas Eve? Or What’s your favorite part of the holiday season?
- The deadline to enter is
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. ET.Sorry, Time’s up! Winners announced below. - Five (5) winners will be picked at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening.
Please note: The toy manufacturer is currently only shipping to the US and Canada. If a winner is chosen outside those countries, the winner will receive two signed Cake Pops Holidays books instead.
Good Luck!
P.S. I had my first book signing earlier today in King of Prussia and I want to thank all of you that came out to say hi. It was so much fun and I hope you enjoy your books. The first two signings were supposed to be in New York and New Jersey, but with the devastation from Sandy, we are going to try and reschedule. I hope all of you in those areas affected are safe.
Here’s the remaining Cake Pops Holidays Book Signing Dates. I’d love to see you.
P.P.S. I know there’s been a lot of cake pops on the site lately, but I’ll be back to regular baking too soon. I need a brownie or a cookie or 12.
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It’s time to pick winners from all the comments? These were some of the best, feel good responses and oh my goodness can I come over on Christmas Eve? So many wonderful memories are going to be happening this year too. Hope you all have happy holidays!
And now for the winners…
Every Christmas Eve, my husband and I spend Christmas Eve with my family. We started a tradition a few years ago to go to dinner at a place called Lucille’s BBQ. It’s a place that we all love to eat at and it gives us all time to spend together no matter how busy our schedules are.
my favorite part of the holidays is baking for all my family that lives out of state….this year i will be making cake balls :)
Usually my husband and I spend the day together after dropping off the kids at their Mom’s and finish up any last minute wrapping (he wraps and I attach the ribbon, bows and ornaments). It’s our 1 day alone during all the running around. This year we are inviting his Mom’s family (all his aunts and uncles and cousins) for a potluck dinner. Every year my husband mentions his childhood memories of waiting on the couch looking out the window for all his family to come over on Christmas Eve and how much fun they all had. He understood that the family just got too big for them to have everyone over so it stopped. I told him it is time to start making new memories, so we are inviting them all over (and there is about 80 of them) over for Christmas Eve. It’s been at least 30+ years since they have done that and we have a house big enough to include everyone so…hoping to build some new memories together with his family.
We have 2 young girls – so we spend it at home as a family, baking cookies, writing a letter to Santa, leaving a key out for him and our girls open one gift – jammies :).
I love the baking & spending time with my family
I’d have to say, my favorite part of Christmas is all the lights and decorations. So shiny!
my favorite part of the holidays is the smiling faces of children – especially my son who still believes in Santa.
The best part of the holiday is it puts everyone in the season of giving….and of course the lights
For 51 years; I’ve celebrated Christmas Eve with my parents (now in their late 70’s), and my mom’s side of the family. All Italian. All crazy! It’s a traditional meatless meal (pasta with squid, etc.). The event has changed homes over the years; but for a group that started out at eight people in the late 1950’s, it’s now over 40. Lots of stories, laughing, hugging, and food!
Christmas is my favorite time of year!!! Since getting married 5 1/2 years ago we have went out for Chinese food every Christmas Eve! Even with our 2 and 3 year old- rice ends up every where but we love the tradition!
Favourite parts are the little lights everywhere, the snow and coming back home from the cold to a cozy atmosphere
My Mom, my husband, my brother and I spend Christmas Eve wrapping presents, stuffing stockings, and drinking champagne. The calm before the storm of the next morning when everyone else shows up and I cook dinner for my extended family.
This will be my first Christmas that I don’t travel back to California to be with family, so it will be just me and my husband cozied up watching movies or something :) We’ll celebrate just the two of us.
My favorite thing about the Holidays is the baking. There’s just something so comforting about smelling the cinnamon, nutmeg, or apples baking in the oven. I love the smiles, the hope of the season, and the love!
Christmas Eve is my anniversary, but of course, we can’t go anywhere (what were we thinking??) We spend the evening with our boys who get to open up one present before they go to bed and set out treats for Santa.
The kids are all home by 10 pm and I have an assortment of appetizers and desserts, and we decide if we’ll stay up and open presents or wait till Christmas morning!
Christmas eve is always spent with my husband’s family, eating potato soup & ham sandwiches-a family tradition for many many years.
Christmas Eve is spent with the family, enjoying lots of seafood then dessert. We always put our Christmas cards on the tree, to be opened that night. When our kids were little, they were each given a book to open.
My family usually spends Christmas Eve with friends and family over at our house with lots of appetizers, desserts, and a few cocktails. It’s a great way to start off the holidays!
We spend Christmas Eve with a family gathering. We have lots of finger foods and watch Christmas movies. We open one present that evening. Then we spend Christmas day at my parents house with the traditional food and rituals.
My favorite part of the holidays is any time that is spent with my family. We always have such a fun time!
My favorite part of the holiday season is the music and decorations. I get really happy right after Thanksgiving when I see all the trees go up!
We have a fudge festival…we invite one family over and make about 100 pounds of fudge. For that one day, our whole house turns into a candy factory. After it’s all bagged and tagged, we run around at church and give everything away…visitors, regulars…anyone we see!
Christmas Eve is my day to have my family at my house. Tons of food, gifts, and celebrating. I enjoy it more than Christmas day when we all scatter to the in-laws. It’s a schedule that seems to work every year and I’ll gladly take it and cherish every moment. P.S. My 6 year old daughter has the Cake Pop kit on her Christmas list :)
Every Christmas Eve, we celebrate with my family since we go to my husband’s parents’ house on Christmas. We first go to Christmas Eve mass and then to either my house or my sister’s house to have dinner, exchange presents and just be together. It’s my favorite time of year!
I’d wish they allow shipment overseas of the cake pop toy to countries outside of U.S. or Canada !
I’d usually spend Christmas with my friends, very very seldom with my family or relatives. And when with friends it’s usually advanced celebrations and potluck style. All the yummy food, or rather, junk food. HAHAH not once a proper piece of cake even. This time I’m hoping that I could prepare small pieces of cakes or cookies for them this Christmas ! Love your recipes ! <3
Christmas eve is usually going to church and then traditional christmas eve dinner which comprises boneless stuffed chicken, cheese brioche-like bread, ham, potato salad, edam cheese, hot chocolate, purple yam dessert, fruit salad and apple pie
If we’re at home we go to a Christmas eve service. Have a yummy dinner of homemade soup and bread. Then my baby gets to open one present. A Christmas book and pajamas. Can’t wait!
My favorite part of the holiday season is home full of food, candies, fruits and family to share with. :)
As a child, Christmas Eve was spent with one side of our extended family having dinner, exchanging gifts, and playing with cousins. Amidst the fun, the “grown ups” would alert the children when it got too close to bed time, and remind us that Santa couldn’t come unless we were asleep in our beds. Everyone would say their goodbyes and head home, get into pj’s and set out cookies/milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. Now, as one of the grown ups, I’m beginning my own traditions with my 3 year old. A tiny red mailbox appears in our yard on the first snow of December (brought by our Elf on the Shelf back from his nightly visit to Santa) and our little girl writes her letter to Santa and suits up to go out in the snow and put the letter in the mailbox. When she puts the flag up, “Nogg” knows to take the mailbox back to Santa that night and deliver her wishes. “The spirit of Christmas is in our Hearts.”
my family and I go to my grandmothers house for dinner and exchange gifts then we head to my mothers house for dessert and finger foods and then around 9 pm Santa comes up all the streets on a fire truck and throws candy canes for the kids :) finally we go home and the kids leave out the cookies and milk for santa and we tuck them in to bed
I spend Christmas Eve with my immediate family. My favorite thing about the holidays is all the get togethers with family & friends and decorating the house!
We have our big Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve with the family!
My favorite part of the season is decorating and getting ready for it! I also love playing all the Christmas music and just getting into the giving spirit!!
My favorite part of the holiday season is my son’s Christmas vacation from school!! Sounds boring, but with kids in school and all the homework checking, parties, activities and the like, it’s nice to just stay home with and reconnect in that week between Christmas and New Years. We work on projects we can’t get to until summer or have movie-watching parties, curled up with popcorn and snacks. For me it really is time with my family and enjoying a tiny bit of the slower-paced life of yesteryear!
We spend Christmas Eve at my mother’s house – eating yummy food, playing silly games and stacking up all the presents to be opened Christmas morning.
I love all the food and decorations. I was fortunate to get lots of free christmas greenery this year and will be going all out with the decorations. And it is alwasy fun to bring cake pops to parties, so your new book would be great.
I love Christmas and everything about it!! Our Christmas Eve tradition is that my daughters and I make and decorate cookies for Santa. We usually do sugar cookies and the girls each decorate a special one for Santa! Then they put their Christmas Eve PJs on and we put the cookies on a Santa plate, fill the Santa mug up with milk and leave it by the fireplace. We even leave some carrots for the reindeer!
My favorite part of the Christmas holiday is getting to relax with my family, putting up the decor, listening to Christmas music, and of course, baking!
My favorite part of Christmas is the look of joy on my kids’ faces. Everything is new to them because they are so young. Even simple things like candy canes and Christmas cookies make them so happy!
I celebrate Hanukkah so Chrismas eve is always quiet by us :)
Usually Chinese dinner and a movie :)
How cute!!
We usually go out to dinner on Christmas Eve, come home and open one gift, and fall asleep to a Christmas movie :)
My family and I have had a tradition for years that we do on Christmas Eve, we like to get all bundled up in our warmest clothes, grab a cup of coco, and pile into the car and go look at Christmas lights. We slowly drive around in this really nice neighborhood where all of the residents put up crazy fun decorations/lights and luminaries!! We have been doing it for at least 10 years!
We usually spend Christmas Eve with my parents, dinner and opening gifts. Less stressful. Then my parents come to our house for Christmas Day to be with the whole family (in laws, kids, grandkids)
Christmas Eve…church, lights in the park, then birthday cake for Jesus and opening one present.
My favourite part of the christmas holidays is boxing day, the one day that my family are all together to open our presents at my grandma’s its an extra christmas day and I get to see everyone which is so rare through the year.
I love cake pops and just started making them, the stockigns are so cute and could easily be personalised with names. I’m going to give them a go. Such a shame that the cake pop toy cannot be delivered to the UK.
Even if I dont win the books I think im going to have a go at making christmas themed cake pops.
We snuggle in PJs, watch Christmas themed movies and look at our beautifully lit up Christmas tree. XD
We usually spend Christmas Eve with my family then go to the Candlelight service at church. After church we go back to a good friends house for cocktails and laughs.
we usually host it at our house. my favorite part is the excitement the next day brings
My favorite part of Christmas is the lights, the smell of fresh pine, and watching my grandkids doing holiday stuff. I also love how people change while embracing the wonders of the holidays.
On Christmas Eve we open all the family’s presents (Christmas morning is for gifts/stockings from Santa) and leave out cookies for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer. I absolutely love everything about Christmas. I can’t wait to put up the tree after Thanksgiving! We have so many wonderful Christmas traditions. :)
My favorite part of the holiday season is spending it with family, good food and of course, my birthday! Wish you were coming to my area :-(
Christmas Eve is spent getting my children to sleep so I can slip into the role of Santa. My favorite part of the Christmas is the family dinner on Christmas Day. Bliss
My favorite part is of course the baking! I get to bake lots and lots of good stuff, and then I bring them to school to my classmates. They really love me for it! :-)
My dad’s birthday is on Christmas Eve, so we always have a delicious breakfast with him, then head south about 3 hours to my in-laws’ family Christmas party. We have a little one this year, so we’ll see how the holiday hustle and bustle goes this year!
I always spend Christmas Eve with my family. We make shrimp scampi and stuff our faces with Christmas cookies. We go to Christmas Eve service either before or after all this gorging!
My seven year old has been asking for this cake pop toy…would be fun to try it out with her!
My favorite part is the music…the food…the spirit of giving…and everything else!!
I guess my favorite part of Christmas is Christmas morning. Even though my kids are in their 20s, they still come home and still get excited about that morning like they were 5 years old! They don’t get up as early as they used to but we still take the sleepy-eyed, messed-up hair picture in from of their stockings and my 21 yr old son still ends up putting every gift and bow on his head at some point (usually his christmas boxers!) Then we spend the WHOLE day vegging out, watching movies and eating candy together. This year I’ll have a grandbaby to add to the mix, can’t wait!
I love the food and decorations but mostly I love the family being together and just looking at them makes me tear up.
I usually spend Christmas Eve playing games and simply time with family!
My favorite party of the holiday season is baking with my boys. We have so much fun making a huge mess. Then mom is stuck cleaning it all up, but it is SOOOOOO worth it!!!
I love the holidays! Christmas Eve is our “calm before the storm.” We always have a very quiet, relaxing night before the Christmas craziness begins. We have a special deal with Santa so he always brings our stockings and PJs/slippers on Christmas Eve :-) We open our stockings, drive around to look at lights and then watch Christmas movies by the fire. What fun!
My favorite part of Christmas is the music and the time spent with my family. Now that our son understands the magic of Christmas, I’m excited to see his face when Santa arrives at our party!
I usually spend Christmas eve with my in laws for a lovely dinner, then we attend midnight mass. oh! And we make a lot of tamales :)
I have two little kids so we spend Christmas Eve (after I get home from work) by opening a present (always pajamas) and getting a good warm bath. Then we make magic Reindeer food and toss it out for Santa’s Reindeer. We always bake cookies and, after eating some with some milk, set them out for Santa. We read the story of Christmas from Luke and The Night Before Christmas. Sometimes we read other books. Then we go to bed and wait for the morning.
My favorite part of Christmas is the baking! There are so many family gatherings, and therefore so many excuses to try some new recipes as well as make the old favorites.
On Christmas Eve we attend church service. Afterwards come home to a food bar where everyone assembles and creates there own food… Such as a grilled cheese bar, pannini bar, pizza bar…. After, we all cram into cars and go see the christmas lights and sing carols.
I haven’t had any Christmas Eve traditions since I was a young kid. I hope to start some new ones with my boyfriend’s family this year! I remember putting out cookies and eggnog for Santa and we always got to open one gift that was already under the tree.
I work on Christmas Eve usually, and get home late. My hubby and I open a bottle of wine, and then open one gift each. We then wobble to bed and open the rest the next morning. THEN, we have lobster and more wine for Christmas dinner!! :)
Christmas eve we have our Christmas dinner. That way I can sit back and enjoy the holiday too and those that have to work the holiday can have a nice dinner. We have a nurse and police officer and bartender that sometimes have to pull the holiday shift.
The holiday pops are so cute!!
Christmas eve is my husband’s birthday, so we try to do something birthday related for him. We also let the kids open one present before Santa comes.
My favorite tradition, besides cookies, is when i was growing up we had a rotating tree stand made by my grandpa. It was silver and had the story of the nativity going around. The lights would switch from day colors to night colors as well. My grandpa stopped making them, so i don’t have one, but my husband knows how to modify a store bought one to be awesome.
On Christmas Eve we go to church and then head over to my parent’s house for dinner. My kids open their first round of gifts from their grandparents and we listen to Christmas carols and enjoy everyones company. When we get home we put out our cookies for Santa and sprinkle reindeer food on the front lawn. We tuck the kids to bed and prep for the morning!!
The best part of the holidays is spending it with family and friend with lots of food and making memories.
First, I’m going to lead off with I didn’t realize those were cake pops and not actual bells in the first picture until I started reading.
Second, we spend Christmas Eve with hot chocolate and all of the Christmas movies we own. A Muppets Christmas Carol, Nightmare Before Christmas, etc.
I spend Christmas Eve watching Charlie Brown dvd (Christmas edition) with my husband and daughter.
On Christmas Eve we usually take a drive to look at all of the beautiful lights and decorations, then we come home and open one present each.
Although it is fun to watch the kids rip into all of their gifts on Christmas morning, I love that afternoon even more- after a good meal, the kids are happily playing, and i get to relax and unwind with family!
Favorite part of the Christmas season? Baking goodies with my 11 year old daughter. What could be better than that?!!!
My favorite part of the Holiday season is my boys excitement about all the festivities that come along with it and of course I LOVE decorating for Christmas!!
Every Christmas eve, our immediate family has a Christmas eve dinner, and then we open up all our presents. Christmas morning we have a family brunch with our extended family, and then we open presents up from them.
On Christmas Eve we go out and drive around town looking at Christmas lights and decorations. People are so creative.
Well, we’re not Italian, but we like the tradition of “Seven Fishes,” so instead on Christmas Eve we do “Seven Junks” – seven different kinds of junk food :) It’s always fun to see the kinds of things my sisters and our families can think up to bring for this silly, and yet so special, get together!
Sorry I missed you at KoP Signing. Cleaning up from Sandy. Next time, definitely. My favorite part of Xmas is buying presents for my family that I think they will like and then have them really like them. Also, making homemade cookie trays for friends (some people NEVER bake) and seeing them devour them!
Usually extended family gets together to have a huge dinner
We spend Christmas Eve at my parent’s house, opening gifts and eating soup and “heavy” appetizers. It’s fun and casual.
Christmas Eve is when we do a big dinner with my moms side of the family.
Christmas Eve is spent with my side of the family. My parents, my sister and brothers and their families all gather at my house for dinner and a gift exchange. It is so much fun to get all the kids together and make memories.
Every Christmas Eve, we travel to my husband’s family farm. The men feed the cows while the women cook. We have to wait until sunset before we open any gifts and then we finish the night with pecan pie. After we leave the farm, my husband and I go to midnight Mass with my family. It’s the exact same ritual every year and I LOVE IT!
My favorite part of the holiday season is baking cookies for my family.
My favourite part of the season is thinking of all the gifts I could make and planning and making or buying them.
Christmas is a really busy time for us. We usually have to go to two houses that night. It’s time to spend with our family, food, and lots of laughs.
My sister and I watch White Christmas, sing along with every song and get teary eyed when everything works out perfectly in the end! The teary eyes may be the ‘spiced’ eggnog…
Christmas Eve is usually spent over at my aunt’s playing board games with family and friends of family. Used to be we’d drive the long way home and look at the lights, but we live in a retirement town and most are unable to decorate these past few years, so it’s not as much fun anymore.
I usually spend Christmas Eve with my kids and husband. We make cookies to leave out for Santa, ride around looking at Christmas lights and drinking hot chocolate. Then after the kiddos are in bed, I put out all the Santa gifts. This year when the rest of the family goes to bed, I will be heading to work. I work in the NICU and usually have to work.
Christmas Eve is my favorite day of the holiday season. That’s when my family gets together and eats lot of fish (we’re italian), open presents and go to midnight mass!
I love all the prep and getting ready with the family.
We usually spend it with my in-laws eating seafood and opening presents. The kids get their new Christmas pyjamas.
We spend Christmas Eve at my uncles house… and the kids get to open half of their gifts early…
My favorite part of Christmas is being with family that I don’t see very often.
We go to the children’s mass and then have a taco bar party at our home!
We go to church on Christmas Eve and then back to our house for dinner. Favorite part of Christmas is baking all the cookies :-)
Ohhhh, please pick me! :)
Our Christmas Eve is spent with my uncles, cousins and their kids as we open all the gifts and go to church. Its a tradition we have had since I was a kid and back then Santa would bring us our gifts in person. Lucky us!! Now the best part of Christmas is playing Christmas music starting in Oct, making lots of fruit cakes thats had raisins and currants soaked in Goslings black rum for months and also making lots of cookies to give to friends and family. Then just before the big day, I make our Bermudian traditional, savoury cassava pies, also to share with friends and family.
I love watching the kids sit by the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. The magic and wonderment that fills their eyes. :)
We spend Christmas eve at my in laws. We eat great traditional foods such as tamales and menudo until 12 and pass out gifts to open! Oooh I can’t wait this is my favorite time of the year!
Congrats on the new book!
On Christmas Eve everyone in my immediate family and my grammy gets together at my parents’ house. We have dinner and exchange gifts with my grandmother. Then we all go down and watch the Christmas parade then head our separate ways from there.
I love everything about Christmas but mostly spending time with my family and of course all the baking that goes along with the holidays.
My 2 sisters and their families and my brother would all go to my Mom’s house and have dinner and open a small gift. We would read The Night Before Christmas and all spend the night so we could get up bright and early Christmas morning.
We love spending Christmas Eve together as a family. We always make shrimp chowder and other holiday goodies and play games. We also love driving around looking at Christmas lights with our warm coffee and hot chocolate for the kids :)
Christmas Eve is my and my husband’s anniversary so it is an extra special day for us. We go to candle light service at church and then have a nice dinner for two.
My cousins always come over and we have a gingerbread house creation competition… We make our aunts and uncles vote on the winner and we even have a plaque with the names of previous years’ winners :) Oh and by the way, I’m almost 30. This is not a child writing this post :)
We also always have to watch Home Alone or Home Alone 2. It’s probably my favourite day of the whole year.
Our Christmas Eve starts early – we go to my mother in laws and make a traditional Acadian meal – Poutines Rapee (not fries, cheese and gravy – we call that Poutine Quebecoise)
Acadian Poutine Rapee is made with grated potatoes and pork shaped into a ball (softball size) and boiled. I takes a few hours to get them made and three more hours to cook them, we usually make between 80 and 90. It’s not my favorite but the rest of his family and mine go crazy for this Christmas Eve treat.
Thank you for the great giveaway!
I love sitting in front of the Christmas tree and reading by the light of the tree.
This might sound crazy, but ever since I was a little girl, my family has always had chinese food on Christmas Eve. And now it doesn’t feel like Christmas without it!
My favorite part of the holiday is the time off from work to be with my family with no agenda other than enjoying being with them!
We decorate sugar cookies and attend a Christmas Eve service. But maybe decorating cake pops would be more fun this year!!
I celebrate Chanukkah with my family every year and there is a tradition that we do where we go to my aunt’s house in north carolina and celebrate chanukkah and christmas :) it is a great way to see my family that I don’t see very often and I can’t wait to go see them again this year :)
On Christmas Eve, my mom’s side of the family all goes over to my grandpa’s house to play games, eat lots of food, and open little “white elephant” sort of presents. It’s a lot of fun. But this year it might just be me, my mom, my dad, my sister, and my grandpa at our house.
I usually spend Christmas Eve with my familiy at my Mums house!
On Christmas Eve we open one present and it is usually a dumb little toy or something but we’ve always done it and it is so fun!
We go to church and after that we have a special dinner. My favorite part about the holidays is baking and spending lots of time with family.
Christmas Eveis spent at church were we have a Children’s live nativity play. Then after church we have a queit dinner with my in- laws at my house with the table set in Christmas dishes( that were his mothers) that a family freind gave me for making & giving them Christmas cookies one Christmas.
Now that I have kids of my own, we go to Christmas Eve mass and then to my parents’ house for dinner and gifts from the family. We used to do a more formal dinner, but now with all of the kids, we learned to simplify the meal because the kids just want to play together and open presents. As much as I like to bake, I also don’t want my kids to remember their mom as a stressed out cranky lady every Christmas so I try to keep things in perspective!
Oh, i LOVE the holidays. Spending time with family and friends and enjoying every second enjoy the magic of Christmas :)
Christmas eve is as important as Christmas day in France. We love to indulge in extra calories and chat all night!! Now living in Ireland I like to keep this tradition going and always invite friends and neighboors around!
Christmas Eve is always spent with family. The past 4 years we’ve hosted, but this year we might change things and spend the evening with my Grandma. Lost of yummy food, singing, and Midnight Mass.
On Christmas eve we usually go to church, then come home for a fancy dinner and gifts. I love it! :)
Our Christmas Eve tradition started as a complete fluke. I didn’t want to bake or cook one more thing, so my hubby, myself and a friend went out for sushi. There was NOBODY there!! 8 years later we still hit sushi on Christmas Eve, it’s grown to include our two kids and more friends too. We enjoy each others company and get ready for the food coma that’s to come!!
Happy Holidays
I like to spend Christmas Eve curled up with family, usually in a new pair of Christmas jimjams, watching a movie and talking about all that’s happened since the last holiday season.
My favorite part is baking LOTS of cookies.
Christmas Eve we head over to Grandma’s house and have a family party full of food and fun. The kids open their presents from Grandma and they always have a special performance. They will do a skit, sing or recite poetry. Then we go home and put on our new pajamas.
When I was a kid, Christmas Eve was always a big extended-family party at my Mother’s house. Now with my own family, the kids get new pyjamas and Christmas movies and we have what my kids call a “Family Party” in our jammies, watching movies and eating fun food! LOVE Christmas!
Every Christmas eve we get together at our friends home with their family, have delicious Carribean food, and his father and another friend play the guitar and we all sing Christmas carole’s together.
Now that we’re a bit older, the tradition is starting for the babies born to our friends. It’s very sweet :)
My favourite part is getting together with friends and family.
Thank you for the opportunity to win one of these sets. I would love to give this to my nieces.
I’m one of ten children & we all (along with our parents, spouses & 39+ twins on the way) go to Christmas Eve Mass & enjoy a play (with most of our little ones taking part) & back to grandma & grandpa’s house for huge Christmas dinner with all our favorites! Switch to pj’s & start opening gifts with SANTA whom also reads The Night Before Christmas! It’s chaotic , but so much fun to watch all the kids!
being with my family! Thanks for sharing.
Christmas Eve is different every year! But my favorite part of the holidays is the chance to take some time off and chillax. :)
I usually spend Christmas Eve at my Aunt’s house with my dad’s side of the family! All of my dad’s 6 siblings and all of there kids get together to celebrate! We have tons of food and a lot of fun! It’s great to see the love of Santa still alive in the little ones eyes!! It’s truly great!!!! I love being able to spend time with my family! Sadly I will have to miss that tradition this year but I will be able to see some Cousins I have not seen in years in Florida! I’m really excited!!! I would love to be able to make some Cake Pops to Bring them!!! It would be great to have your book as guidance!!! MY your favorite part of the holiday season is being able to spend time with my extended family! I come from two big family’s and it’s rare we all get together so it’s nice to be able to do so!
Christmas Eve is usually the night we have to have dinner with the family in fancy clothes..BUT! The second we get home it’s pajama party time and we sit and watch movies and eat junk food until the kids are done waiting for Santa. Then me and hubs have to put the coffee on and help Santa distribute the gifts ;)
Baking (& eating those goodies) is my favorite thing to do for the holidays.
2nd best is decorating the house….but taking it all back down is NOT fun! lol!
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas to you & yours dear Angie!
Dinner with family and act out nativity and sing Christmas carols. :)
i never celebrated Chrismas but i always wished i could… with all the decorations and the presents it just sounds great! but Hanukkah is amazing as well :)
My sisters and I, along with our significant others, all pile up at my Mom’s for fun finger foods and presents for just my immediate family. There are no grandkids yet, so we are all still Mom’s little girls! She buys us all pajamas and always wraps them so we dissipate to different parts of the house to change – immediately. We have a few cocktails and play trivia or board games. There are always lots of laughs as my sisters and I get sillier by the hour! I can’t wait for the gathering this year…
We spend the Holidays with our families, you never have enough time as family before someone is gone so we soak up all we can!
We spend Christmas Eve as just our family. We read The Night Before Christmas and we read the story of the Nativity from the Bible.
Every Christmas Eve we go to church then have a nice dinner with our family and the neighbors across the street.
My favorite part of the holiday season is COOKIES!
We spend Christmas Eve sipping on cider..opening 1 gift..and watching It’s a Wonderful Life!:)
On Christmas Eve, my dad’s side of the family gathers for dinner at a nice Italian restaurant, followed by presents & dessert at one of the aunts’ houses.
(Christmas Day is spent with my mom’s side of the family)
We’ve been following this schedule/tradition for at least 25 years, maybe longer.
Now that my kids are grown and have kids of their own, I spend Christmas Eve alone and remember all the fun times when we would get ready for Santa. Memories of past Christmas’ sustain me until we all get together on Christmas day.
We spend Christmas Eve as a family going to the Moravian Lovefeast service at our church where we are served delicious coffee and scrumptious lovefeast buns that have been baked at the Old Salem bakery. Singing beautiful harmonious music and listening to the Christmas story being told, and ending the service with the children singing “Morning Star”, we hold our beeswax candles high while the lights are turned off in the church reminding us of the beauty of the season . Such a wonderful service to remind us of the real meaning of Christmas.
Christmas Eve is spent with my family. We open one gift that night, watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “White Christmas” and then go to midnight Mass.
I spend Christmas Eve with my family. Enjoy the food and laugh a lot.
Christmas Eve is usually spent listening to Christmas carols, wrapping last minutes gifts, spending time with the family, and relaxing before the big day. Occasionally we will go to a Christmas Eve service, depending on the weather, etc.
My favorite part of the Holidays is the feeling that I get around Dec 1. It’s like anticipation and joy! I loooove it!
I help my wife get everything ready for a big dinner with the family but my favorite part of the holiday season is to ecorate the house with my 4 year old and see how excited she gets
we celebrate my brother’s birthday with a family brunch, visit family throughout the day then go to the candelight service in church at night.
We usually open presents Christmas Eve.. I honestly think this tradition started because my dad couldn’t wait another day!
We normally spend Christmas Eve with our extended family. Eating a huge dinner. My favorite part of the season is all the food ….
Every Christmas Eve we spend the afternoon running last minute errands and wrapping last minute gifts. Then we Have the ENTIRE family over for a big dinner and a gift exchange between everyone so we can all just enjoy Christmas at our own homes with our families
I always spend Christmas Eve at a huge party featuring all of my extended in-law family! It is a total blast and my favourite part of Christmas!
We eat gumbo at my mom’s house, watch a Christmas movie, then my kids unwrap some new pajamas. Then right before they go to bed we read the story of Jesus’ birth in the Bible. I live Christmas!!!
My favorite part of the holidays is spending time with friends and family and sharing yummy food and drinks!
I can’t get enough of visiting with extended family! We only see each other about twice a year, so it’s special to me. We always have about three or four fondues going with drinks and lots of laughs.
The baking leading up to Christmas is special too. I’ve been doing it since I was seven and now I enjoy it with my daughters.
It is a tradition in my house that on Christmas Eve we are watching “It’s a Wonderful Life.” No phones, no Facebook, no texts. Just the four of us (or whomever else is there) sitting with a delicious treat watching this fabulous movie.
Christmas Eve is a relaxing time for us. My extended family will be at our house and this gives my husband and I time to go out to a store — not to shop but just to spend time together and do some people-watching. At night, we go to our church’s Christmas Eve service and then back home to finish wrapping whatever presents that weren’t finished. When the kids are asleep, we’ll put all the presents under the tree and kick back with a cup of tea and just chill. I love that time most of all — it’s so peaceful and we’re all filled with joy.
My favorite part is the yummy food. And best of all this will be our first Christmas with our son!
Christmas eve is nothing special. But christmas day is! We have our family just me and my fiance, then head over to my parents with my brother. Then head to my grandmas where 40 plus people are to celebrate together! All the aunt and uncles, cousins. And new babies come together! Its super fun because there ar just sooooo many people!
Eeeeekkk! I love the new cake pop set! My favorite part of the holidays is starting an advent calendar and celebrating 25 days of Christmas and teaching them about why Jesus is the reason for the season!
Christmas eve is just for the two of us and a great bottle of wine.
My favorite part of the holiday season is going shopping with my mom and sister and enjoying spiced apple ciders while we drive around looking at lights and decorations!
I love everything about the holiday season. The lights, the decorations, the smells. It was always the happiest time growing up. I am counting down the days to get house ready!
Christmas Eve is always spent with my husband’s family. We open gifts, play games, and eat lots of comfort food!
On Christmas Eve, my husband, son, and I bundle up and go to Longwood Gardens. It’s a beatiful indoor/outdoor garden that goes over-the-top with Christmas lights. My husband and I went there the first year we were dating, and have gone every year since then.
Unfortunately, I am usually trying to finish wrapping presents that I have waited until the last minute to finish!!
We always host our family gathering on Christmas Eve. I love watching Norad with my kids and tracking Santa’s progress across the globe! We always have a warm fire, hot chocolate, and lot of cookies and cake pops! It’s a magical time!
My favorite part of Christmas is getting everyone together, the good food, my kids being happy and having fun.
The celebration of Christ’s birth is my favorite part of the holiday. And I am so thankful when we get to see snow too (I live in a southern state).
We make comfort finger foods/appetizers and play board games with family.
Christmas Eve we usually spend with family, go to church, have a meal together. We used to open stockings that ‘Santa’ at grandma’s house while we were at church (yes, I’m a grown adult but we still opened stockings from Santa. Not sure what we’re going to do this year with her gone…I’m sure someone in the family will continue the tradition!
We always spend Christmas Eve with my Dad’s side of the family eating a huge meal and just having fun as a family :)
I always spend Christmas Eve with my mom, brother, and now my husband! We have always had homemade pizza on Christmas Eve, then the big meal on Christmas. Cooking and decorating with my family is definitely the best part of the holiday season for me!
Christmas Eve is usually spent with my family having a great dinner, watching Christmas movies & then opening our presents at midnight! The best part about the season is celebrating the birth of Christ our Savior :)
Christmas eve is usually spent with a little party and lot’s of food at a good dinner. Then, after the kids are in bed, Hubby and I play Santa. When that fun is done, we cuddle up and watch a movie with hot chocolate. I love it!
I’m so excited about your new book, Bakerella! It’s so encreadably cute! I’m looking forward to seeing the best Christmas lights again this year with a hot batch of coco, seeing my tree all lit up, baking christmas cookies, enjoying my loved ones faces as they open the presents I got them, and most of all, celebrating with my little son for his first Christmas! :D
I love how the holidays brings family and friends together. I love being able to bake everything and anything. I really like the smells that come from baking lots of differant treats
My favorite part of Christmas is having family close and doing everything together on this special day from eating delicious homemade food & other goodies to just hanging out watching a great movie snuggling on the sofas with our family of six and two dogs and our kitty:)
Our family has Christmas Eve chili and brownies made into reindeer heads.
My husband and I like to pick a church and go to their Christmas Eve service. After that we come home, frantically wrap presents, and say how “next year we’ll get everything wrapped before Christmas Eve!”
How do you usually spend Christmas Eve? I spend it with my parents having dinner and bringing my gifts over to their house for the morning.
What’s your favorite part of the holiday season? last year it was baking cookies with my sister and nieces when they visited from Wa. state. we made frosted butter cookies. WE were laughing and chatting the entire time.
Love this! My favorite part of the holidays is seeing all the family I dont get to see that often! All in one place we have a blast spending time together.
Growing up I used to spend every Christmas Eve at my grandma’s house! I live too far away to go now, but every Christmas Eve I still think about everyone who’s at her house and it warms my heart.
We spend our Christmas Eve eating a big meal, looking at picutres of past Christmases and then we go to chuch late for the candlelight service.
Christmas Eve has always been the big celebration in my family. We all go to church together, then have a meal (usually pizza) and share all of our home-baked goods. Yum! Then, we exchange gifts. Since I was a kid we have picked a name and gotten a gift for someone that would fit the chosen theme for the year. We started off with stockings (since none of us had one) and moved to ornaments. As we ran out of ideas, the themes got crazier – something purple, something hot, one pound of something. The gag gift exchange is the highlight of the evening. Years ago, we did away with exchanging nice gifts for the adults and now choose a charity or adopt a family to buy gifts for. Its the most wonderful time of the year!
How do you usually spend Christmas Eve? Or What’s your favorite part of the holiday season? Christmas Eve is spent with my husband and two kids (+one on the way) making chocolate chip cookies and watching old christmas movies. It is such a special time as we make a special dinner and bake together!! LOVE IT!!
My favourite part of Christmas is spending time with my family and the look on my childrens face christmas morning. We also enjoy baking treats together for everyone to share.
Our Christmas Eve tradition is to have a lobster dinner! Then the kids get to open one special Christmas Eve present, which is always a board game or a movie. We all partake in the fun and then it’s off to bed :)
We spend time with family and go to Christmas Eve Mass.
Christmas Eve is spent dividing up the dozens of Christmas cookies made and driving around town delivering them.
My favorite part of the holiday season is that I am able to recreate my childhood memories. I spent this time of year, growing up, with each of my grandmothers, baking and recreating the traditions of their childhood. Old-World cookies, cakes, and treats were made with love, grandmother and grandchild side-by-side. I always tell everyone I was taught how to bake from the best: two little old Italian women!
Congrats on your continuing success! My favorite part of the holiday season is the music. I love Christmas carols, and I don’t mind that radio stations start playing them nonstop right after Thanksgiving! I hum “Jingle Bells” year-round! By the way, thanks for the great opportunity!
Since my husband and I got married 5 years ago, we’ve spent most of our Christmas Eves traveling from one of our family’s get togethers to the other.
my fave? CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER WITH FAMILY!! plus hot peppermint chocolate whilst waiting to open presents!! ;-)
One of me favorite parts of the holidays is enjoying all of the seasonal foods. Egg nog, pumpkin pie (or anything pumpkin!), hot cocoa, cranberry sauce…I also love the joy that the season brings.