My friend Cupcake Julie had her Christmas party this past weekend.
You may remember her gorgeous sugar-themed decorations.
Stuff like this.
(Here’s the post from last year if you want to see visions of sugar plums dancing in your head for the next few days. Make sure you check out the kids play bakery, too. It’s incredible.)
It’s hard to imagine, but this year was even more beautiful than last.
Colonel Cupcake was there again this year.
And so was this guy.
And this one.
And this little one. These guys were all over the place.
You may also remember seeing them from the Toronto Book Signing Post.
Teatro Verde is the only store I’ve actually seen them sold in. It made me happy to see them on display.
Anyway, I love ’em. So festive and sweet.
As a surprise for Julie, I made a few cake pops inspired by them to bring to the party.
Wanna see?
Cupcake Nutcracker guys.
She squealed. I smiled.
They’re double decker cake pops, too. Tricky and a little over the top, but I couldn’t resist.
I also made some Christmas Tree cake pops.
Much easier. But instead of doing them in green, I kept them in her holiday color scheme.
I really like them like this.
Speaking of trees, Julie’s party decorations this year also included two new ones.
This cheerful pink one covered in snowmen.
And this whimsical upside down tree.
Amazing, huh.
But that’s Julie.
Here’s her dessert table. Filled with tons of treats.
Cookies and candy.
Cake Pops, of course.
Mini cupcakes from Crumb in New York.
Macarons and much, much more.
Completely lovely. I wish you could have been there with me.
But since you weren’t … how about a couple of cute guys to keep you company?
I just so happen to know of two that are about ten inches tall.
I thought I’d part with these to share them with one of you.
Enter for a chance to win these two sweet soldiers.
- Simply leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite thing to eat on Christmas. Real food this time. Something non-sweet. I was on sugar overload this weekend and I need some ideas. I know you guys will have some great ones.
- Deadline to enter is Tuesday, December 21 at 7:00 pm ET. TIME’S UP. Winner announced below.
- One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
P.S. – If you know another store that sells them too, I’d love to hear.
Good Luck!
And the winner is………
YAY Amanda V! Hope you will enjoy them.
I like to eat mexican food on Christmas. We get tamales from a local place and plan out meal around them.
Definitely stuffing…It’s the only day other than thanksgiving that I eat it!
My favorite food to eat/make on Christmas is a Honey baked ham with a side of mashed potatoes and green beans.
My favorite food.. hum.. It would have to be MoM’s homemade tamales with hot Atole (( which is hot rice and milk drink, very popular in our Mexico..)) uummm I can’t wait till Christmas
sweet potatoe casserole
Favorite food during holidays – our family are shrimp-nuts. We love a shrimp cerveche and just plain ol’ shrimp cocktail. The runners up – a cream cheese/ italian sausage/rotel tomato dip -16 oz. cream cheese, 1 can rotel tomotoes, 1 pound browned and drained italian sausage. Combine in a warmer, stirring until cream cheese is smooth and combined well with other ingredients. Serve with a great cracker or a Frito scoop or similiar chip. Mmmmm. Merry Christmas to you. Your web page gives me a lot of enjoyment. Thanks for sharing. K
Honey-Baked Ham
I hated it growing up, but now my Holiday favorite is pork & sauerkraut. Only my dad makes it right (of course!). It is so juicy and falls to pieces. I dump it on a big pile of real mashed potatoes, and I’m in heaven.
definitely pork with apple sauce topped off with crackle…hmmmm
My honey bourbon glazed ham is always my favorite thing to eat around the holidays. It’s so delicious.
I LOVE sweet potatoe casserole. I used to hate sweet potatoes until i ate them like this. Now i LOVE them!!! can’t wait till Saturday! :)
Being that we are italian, we always have 8 different fishes on Christmas Eve, but I can’t stand seafood.. it’s like a curse!
BUT..
ARTICHOKES ARE MY DESTINY!
I would write an entire book about the history, cleaning, preparation, recipes, and love of artichokes.
We have an ARTICHOKE CONTEST on Christmas for us non-seafood eaters (ME – basically!)
Merry Merry Christmas!
Love sweet potatoes without the sugar and marshmallows. Just bake and eat. So good and good for you.
Every year it’s different…but usually my folks do appetizers instead of full meals. Much easier, less messy, and we all graze on the food. But one thing that I love that my mom makes often…stuffed jalapeno peppers. She stuffs them with a mixture of hot sausage and cream cheese, then sprinkled with parmesan cheese on top. MMMMMM
My favorite is ham and corn casserole! Yum! These decorations are too cute!
Turkey breast from the Honeybaked Ham store.
Christmas is the sweets of the century. Full of promise. Our family favorite desert are the red velvet cupcakes. Their moist redden cake and the creamy yummy icy makes my mouth water with delight.
Linguini with clam sauce! Don’t forget the parmesan cheese!
Christmas breakfast made the night before with bread, eggs, sausage, and cheese. You put it together the night before and then pop it in the oven while you are opening presents and then its ready almost about the time everything is unwrapped!
My favorite Christmas food is mashed potatoes! So good with honey baked ham…
Rats! Did I miss by mere minutes another Bakerella deadline? I love hot crab dip on Christmas (for an hors d’ouvre, of course).
My mom’s mashed potatoes. No one (sorry hubby!) can make them as good as her.
I know that some might think it boring, but I am crazy for mashed potatoes with a nice ham gravy!
It’s lasagna for us! When we make it on Christmas, we make with home made sauce and everything!
There are two things…one sweet and one not. The first, I love love love to eat a cheese ball and crackers!!! All time fave! Next my parents make these candies called moldy sawhoos. They don’t sound very appetizing but they are delish! The only bad part about those is that they won’t give away their secret recipe (even to their own daughter) so I am at their mercy to make them every year.
Mashed potatoes and broccoli casserole. Nothing fancy, but soooo comforting and yummy!
My father-in-law’s chicken and rice. Yummy!
12 layer homemade lasagna is always a big hit for Christmas lunch! The Italian side of my family has way too much fun with mozzarella – not that I’m complaining! Happy holidays!
The big Christmas breakfast my family always makes!
Merry Christmas!
Cornbread Dressing!
I make Christmas breakfast every year, there are two things that we make that I look forward to: home fries, and Smitten Kitchen’s Boozy Baked French Toast. I know that last one’s not savory, but…
We’ve had many different things for Christmas dinner over the years, but my favorite the past few years has been prime rib. It’s one meal that every picky eater in my house enjoys!
I always love green bean casserole at any holiday
Our entire holiday is food based ;) I’d have to say my fav is the special potatoes my mom makes. It’s a cross between scalloped and delmonico. Absolutely delish
the ham and stuffing are my favorite non sweet things
Scalloped Corn (a corn souffle type dish) made by my mom. It’s been a traditional dish at every one of our holiday gatherings! Just thinking about it makes my mouth water! :-)
We eat lasagna….every Christmas and Easter too. This year I am making warm, savory-rosemary and brown sugar nuts as an app.
Merry Christmas!
Ha! I would like one of your cute cake pops to match as well! My favorite holiday food is the salad… sadly my mother-in-law announced that spaghetti with Ragu won the vote for the holiday meal this year! Ish! I may have to have my own pre-holiday meal… less pressure that way too! My salad has spinach, mixed greens, candied (or simply roasted) walnuts, strawberries, pomegranate seeds, chicken, gorgonzola cheese, and raspberry poppyseed dressing. Yum!
My fave is my family’s tradional Christmas Eve dinner – Shrimp w/ Cheesy Grits. The grits are super smooth and loaded with cheese (2 kinds) bacon and green onions. The shrimp is sauted and served on top. A must have for us.
Ham with fresh green beans on the side!
I love this carrot dish that we make during the holidays! It is delicious!
My favorite Christmas food is home made danish puff.
I live in Australia so our Christmas is celebrated in the heat. We try to still do the traditional Christmas dinner at night time once the house has cooled down enough to cook a bit but for Christmas lunch we love to eat things like King prawns with yummy sauces either fresh or BBQ and things like lobster and fish. Yummy.
We also love things like cold hams and turkey with apple and cranberry sauce. I would love to have a cold Christmas one day but as for now I will just have to suffer Christmas around the swimming pool. xx
My family is Italian. We have lobster, shrimp, calamari, clams, mussles, baccala, octopus….its the feast of the seven fishes a tradational Italian Christmas Eve.
Yorkshire pudding!
We make a cheesy, creamy dish that’s supposed to feature potatoes, but we use cauliflower instead. It’s a wonderful way to work in vegetables, and make an amazingly yummy dish not so heavy. That makes more room in the tummy for the sweet things ;)
I would like to have pizza on christmas. Im not going to have it, gotta do the whole ham thing, but oh, to order me up some gourmet veggie pizza from Round Table would be heavenly!!!
We love to make Bobby Flay’s Balsamic Meatloaf with roasted vegetables. It was on a Throwdown episode (and is in his new Throwdown cookbook). Since my forte is sweets, this is a “fancy” meal for me to make. Pair it with mascarpone mashed potatoes and peas with shallots and pancetta and you have one happy family! My lime chiffon cake for dessert is perfect too. Sorry- so hard to stay away from the sweet talk :)
Happy Holidays!
Rolls! I’m totally a bread girl!
Merry Christmas!
Well, for non-sweet food I would have to say spinach dip and wheat crackers. But, I also love my mother in laws punch!
Every year I make fudge for my family and I love the peanut butter fudge!!
Hello Bakerella,
We eat delicious tamales on Christmas usually chicken and green chile. Have you ever tried sweet ones?
The orange found at the toe of my stocking!
I love mashed potatoes with gravy, and stuffing!
rolled sugar cookies from my great, great grandmother’s recipe. If anyone knows of somewhere to get these decorations, please post it on your blog. i rarely make if through all the comments =-}
Hands down, stuffing with giblet gravy!
It’s a toss up between my mom’s cheesy potato casserole and my grandma’s shredded turkey in gravy….mmm I can’t wait!
My favorite things to eat are all of the appetizers. Cheeseball & crackers, veggies & Grandmas’s dill dip, then there are the yummy carrot rolls.
My fav thing to eat is my Granddad’s ham with Dr. Pepper gravy…yummy!!!
I really look forward to our Christmas ham, it’s great just sliced off the bone or on a sweet potato biscuit with mustard. The left overs are great too – the bone in white bean or split pea soup, the ham chopped in scalloped potatoes.
My favorite is stuffed ham.
My grandma’s homemade nutbread is my favorite treat on Christmas morning :)
I love fresh fruit salad with ham for Christmas dinner with all the other trimmings!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas (Eve)…Honestly, growing up my family used to gather ’round and make homemade pizza. We all got to add our favorite ingredients and make it and eat it together. We’d put the Jesus figurine in the manger after we’d eaten. There were six kids in my family, sot it was a big deal when your turn came around every 6th year (and sometimes an ORDEAL remembering whose turn it actually was)! Nothing Christmasy about the food, but the memory is sweet :)
Love the whole turkey dinner at my mother’s, love her cabbage rolls and homemade perogies…..yummy yum yum!
My son and daughter’s school did a production of the Nutcracker for the school holiday concert….one toy soldier and one sugar plum fairy….so sweet!
NonSweet… hmmm… gotta be ham, I never make it myself but I love to eat it!
I love my mom’s stuffed mushrooms. She only makes them on the Holidays and they are the stuff I think about as soon as I hear the xmas music starting ;)
Oh how I would love to win these nutcrackers for my five year old. She is OBSESSED with nutcrackers, year round. And she LOVES sweets :)
Christmas Dinner wouldn’t be Christmas without my Nana’s Chicken Dressing. I have had it every Christmas of my whole life but it hasn’t been the same the last five since she went to heaven :)
My grandmas dinner rolls. Warm, soft, and buttery. Can it get better than that? :)
My favorite thing to eat on christmas is gumbo :)
simple but my favorite is potato salad. my grandma’s recipe is reaaal simple: potatoes, carrots, boiled eggs, raw minced white onion, mayo and white vinegar. salt and pepper and it’s sooo good!
Christmas dinner is a wonderful tradition the whole family looks forward to….tender prime rib, mashed potatoes with lots of butter and trays of homemade butter cookies. Can’t wait…and I’m the one cooking and baking!!
Ham, cheesy jajapeno grits & sweet potatoes!
My favorite food is mashed potatoes and gravy.
My Aunt Charlene’s mashed potatoes and gravy, hands down!
Oh beautiful photos!! I want to have a party like that next year!! And with that upside down tree- amazing!! We always do munchie finger foods for Christmas like shrimp, cheese, crackers, little smokies- YUM!
My Memere’s stuffing! It’s french and called something else I think, but to us it’s just Memere’s stuffing. Wouldn’t be Christmas without it :)
OMG those cupcake nutcrackers are so cute! Sweets are always my favorite but since you asked for something else… I make a corn salad that I am always asked to bring. It has canned corn, chopped onions, chopped green peppers, mayonaise, grated cheese and suprise ingredient, crushed chile cheese fritos.
My very favorite thing to eat at Christmas are tiropitas! Greek tiropitas are a filo pastry, filling with feta cheese, baked in the oven until crispy, sooo yummy! My parents always makes them at Christmas and I look forward to them every year!
Merry Christmas! :)
I love these darling soldiers! I’m not really sure if this counts as “real food” but I absolutely LOVE crackers and cheeseballs during the holidays! I know it’s almost christmas when the cheeseballs come out because it’s the only time of year my mom makes them.
These guys are TOO CUTE!!! I hope I win! On Christmas Eve, we always have shrimp cocktail with the cocktail sauce having extra horseradish in it-it is our family tradition. Christmas Day this year, we are going non-traditional and having a Ceasar Salad, Fettucini Alfredo (my kids requested it), Garlic Knots with Peppermint Ice Cream for dessert!
What beautiful and whimsical treats.. I love the upside down tree!
Shrimp Scampi with pasta!
Not sure if they sell the exact nutcrackers (which are AWESOME btw), but I think that you and Julie would love Glitterville. His birthday and Christmas products remind me of your blog and love of all things cupcake. Enjoy!
My Nana’s dressing. Now that I am about to graduate culinary school she FINALLY saw me worthy to know her secrets. However, mine was still not as good as hers this year.
I make what we call “grama’s potatoes” every year for christmas, they originally are called potatoes romanoff, there luscious full of fat and buttery, cheesey, creamy goodness!!! once a year only though!!! ;0)
My favorite things to eat every Christmas would have to be the turkey, dressing and lots of mashed potatoes. This is the only time of the year I get to eat whatever I want!
I’m having a Christmas party at my place this saturday and I am planning on making parmesan chicken stuffed with prosciutto and provolone, seared scallops in orange-chipotle sauce, and garlic spinach on parmesan french toast!!! Mouth watering….yes?
Something non-sweet? I guess I’d have to say ham w/a guava jam and pineapple glaze! Yummy! But it’s kinda sweet….
My favorite food to eat on Christmas is ham with all the fixings! Yum!
The person whose house we go over for Christmas dinner makes the BEST macaroni and cheese. I could eat it everday, but we only get it Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I love to eat anything my mom cooks on Christmas. It’s usually lamb because that’s what Greek’s eat!
We have christmas brunch so I’m not sure if this counts… but fried potatoes and pumpkin or ginger bread french toast! yumm! But for dinner I always want homemade mac and cheese.
We do not really do a traditional Christmas dinner. We always do appetizers on Christmas Eve and these are my favorites because you can try so many different tastes.
Real food… hmm. This year we’re having short ribs over stone ground grits. A cake pop would be the perfect ending to the meal! Hoping your book is under my tree!!
Prime Rib! I look forward to it every year! My dad’s side also makes tamales, which was a family event every year. I don’t look forward to work, as they take a long time to make, but the outcome is definitely worth it!
mashed sweet potatoes! mmmm
Mushroom turnovers!
I always look forward to this time of year. Its the only time I get to eat creamed corn from scratch. I can’t help myself when my family makes that. It’s the best.
It’s simple, but ham biscuits. Although when I was little, I like to eat just the ham. Our family tradition was to do a simple Christmas lunch so we could go straight to the gift giving!
Favorite Christmas food, hands down, chicken tamales! I’d eat them year round if I could.
Cheese. Tons and tons of cheese. Lots of different kinds. And my mom’s famous egg sandwiches. But in our house, every holiday is celebrated with cheese.
These guys look so sweet! Have a great holiday everyone!
Sausage Balls on Christmas morning
Amazing pictures!!! I want to re-do all my decorations now…
Favorite thing to eat at Christmas is broccoli cheese casserole!
I love my mom’s cornbread dressing. No one can make it like she can.
Oh they are too cute! I LOVE them! The nonsweet stuff I like to eat on Christmas huh….well I love sausage pinwheels. You just brown some jimmy dean sausage, drain, mix it with a package of cream cheese and then roll it up with crescent roll dough from the can and make a log. Cut it into slices and bake according to the dough directions. They are delicious. Oh and it’s easier to cut the log and make it look pretty if you refridgerate it first and use a very sharp knife. Hope you give them a try!
These soldiers are great! My kids collect soldiers/nutcrackers. They would love them.
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas day is a beautiful prime rib roast. I roast it the way Barefoot Contessa does and it comes out perfect every time and also served with roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes. I am getting really hungry now just thinking about it:)
I always make Seafood Chowder for Christmas Eve dinner. I look forward to it every year. Yum!!
My favorite thing is my mom’s cinnamon rolls :)
breakfast casserole. :)
My favorite thing at christmas is creamy homemade mac and cheese. It is the only mac and cheese I eat, and I only eat it once a year. Has a little zing to it with some Dijon Mustard, if you’re interested, the recipe is on allrecipes search “creamy mac and cheese.”
I have two things that I love eating on Christmas…vegetarian Christmas casserole in the morning and then while the food is being prepared I love my mil’s spicy sausage rolls so yummy
My mom usually makes some traditional South Indian dishes, like duck or mutton curry and palappam (pic -> http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3eg_XDY5j-c/TA-HF5CFLlI/AAAAAAAAFo8/kWaP2YFylcc/s1600/palappam.jpg), which is delicious and warm and soft in the center but crispy around the edges. The duck or mutton curry usually has lots of yummy spices and potatoes, and sometimes peas! Super-delish, and one of the things I look forward to on Christmas.
I love making tamales, all kinds of them! To me that’s the best and most traditional mexican Christmas food ever! mmmm :)
My grandmother’s sweet potato rolls. Warm, soft, perfectly chewy….nothing screams Christmas more! :D And Cupcake Julie is amazing!!
Spinach dip!! Creamy dip with chopped spinach, green onions, lots of chopped water chestnuts, veggie soup mix, mayo and sour cream. A little bit sinful, a little bit healthy all rolled into one. Served up with Wheat thins. Yum!!!
Christmas brunch–French toast casserole, Cheesy hash brown potato casserole, ham cups filled with baked eggs…yum!!!!
I love to make my kids homemade macaroni and cheese on Christmas so that I can have some! It is so yummy and I make it with a pinch of fresh nutmeg and some cayenne pepper.
Stuffing. Always stuffing. I’m also terribly in love with lefsa (a norwegian potato tortilla-like pancake) with swedish meatballs. Sooooooo good.
cheese fondue on Christmas Eve!
I have dreamed of Julie’s Candy Christmas Land for a year now! It’s incredible!!
Turkey is to Thanksgiving, what Ham is to Christmas for me…gotta have that traditional maple glaze injected ham…I’m litterally sitting here typing with my eyes closed and mouth watering thinking about it…5 more days…woohoo
My dad’s rolls. Absolutely divine and no one can make them like he does!
We have the traditional turkey and fixins!
My favorite dish is my grandma’s ham. It is delicious! Also sweet potatoes. I look forward to them each year and pretty much still the whole plate for myself =)
my favorite savory things to eat at Christmas are the finger foods! A cheese ball with crackers, stuffed mushrooms, spinach artichoke dip… the yummy possibilities are endless!!!
spinach artichoke dip :)
Uhm, would it be terribly cliche to say that my FAVORITE thing to eat on Christmas day is Frozen Raw Fish in Seal Oil?
Oh well, too bad, that’s my Favorite. And they pass it out at the Church Potluck complete with Whale Muktuk and Sailor Boy Crackers every Christmas and I look forward to the Trout, Salmon, Whitefish and TomCod frozen, raw goodness that is our Church Potluck!
;) Seriously.
sausage and egg casserole on Christmas morning with gingerbread muffins
It’s kinda’ crazy… but a tradition my family started was spaghetti dinner on Christmas! It began as a joke, and now we’ve continued every year! We have spaghetti, homemade sauce, hot sausage, meatballs, garlic bread… mmmm!
I make breakfast pizza. One pound of bacon, one block of cream cheese, one premade pizza crust, and a whole dozen eggs scrambled!
My mom is the most amazing cook, her Christmas stuffed shells or manicotti are to die for!
My mom cooks dinner, so my favorite thing to eat on Christmas has always been dessert! Other than that, the bake and serve rolls have a special place in my heart…
i like spinach dip… so easy, the recipe is on the back of knorr’s vegetable soup mix. yum.
I love the prime rib my mother cooks every year. There’s just something so timeless but great food.
Christmas is the only time of year I eat Ham. I look forward to it every year.
I would name something sweet because I have a “sweet tooth”. Last year, my husband and I had lobster and it was delicious.
Mashed sweet potatoesss!
My mom’s cheesy potato casserole! My brother could eat the entire pan by himself, if we allowed him to!
I love Christmas ham. Yum yum!
I love meat – so ham and turkey for me ;)
I love cranberry sauce! I’m a sucker for sweets =) Can never have too much!
Prime Rib and Smashed Potatoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pot Roast…so delicious. And green bean casserole
I love Scalloped potatoes. It’s probably the first meal I cooked with my little sister and my mum and we’ve had it for years now. We only cook it on special occasions, so we usually save it for Christmas.
prime rib and potatoes, but really all the sweet stuff
prime rib
My favorite thing to eat at Chrostmas is definitely spiral sliced ham. :)
My daddy’s cornbread dressing, or stuffing if you want to call it that. We only have it at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I could eat a whole pan of it by myself, carbs be damned.
sweet and sour green beans!
prime rib! and, don’t forget the mashed potatoes!
I look forward to pork pie every year, a French Canadian tradition that my grandmother incorporated into our family’s celebration. We have it every Christmas Eve.
HAM! with the glaze..mmmm…
Biscuits and sausage gravy on Christmas morning!
I LOVE the yummy potato casserole I make for breakfast on Christmas morning. Oh, and HAM! I love me some yummy pork! ;o)
I am all about appetizers and desserts, but since you’re on sweet overload I’ll stick to an appetizer… Buffalo Wing Dip!
Yummmmm
My favorite thing to eat during the holidays is filet mignon with garlic red skin mashed potatoes!
Mine would definitely be my mom’s fried rice….something traditional with the turkey
I have four little boys, and they collect nutcrackers! However, mommy doesn’t have many of her own! I am a hobby cake decorator, and I would love to have these cute little guys!
Merry Christmas.
Jennifer
I love mashed potatoes…and this lovely Jell-O salad that my mom always makes. Yum!
I look forward to my mother-in law’s bread pudding and gravy.
My favorite for this year are oysters with cider vinegar an shallots eaten with toasts and butter, and scallops (pre-cooked in white wine) with mushrooms, double cream, bread-crumb on top.
Sage dressing! The same as Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite!
Made my first cakepops today. No longer a virgin. And thanks to your great instructions they turned out great. 92 cakepops for my daughter’s work fundraiser.
My favorite non sweet Christmas treat is dips, any kind. We do a day of dips at work and it is my favorite day. Buffalo chicken hot dip is the best!
Beautiful pictures. You are so talented and creative. Keep it coming.
Dressing and gravy
There’s something heartwarming about a big plate of roast veggies at christmas! Yams and brussels sprouts and onions all cooked up together… deeelicious.
How gorgeous are these little soldiers?!
Ham, scalloped potatoes and corn! holiday tradition!
I always look forward to the swiss greenbean casserole that my sister makes. YUMMY!!!!
This cheese dip that we just call Jack’s dip after our neighbor who gave us the recipe. It’s a big hit.
mmm mashed potatoes!!!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is twice baked potatoes!! yum yum!!!
Pierogies! A family staple on Christmas Eve and then for breakfast Christmas Day!
My favorite thing to eat on the holidays is homemade mac and cheese! Who wouldn’t love tons of cheese baked with macaroni! I especially love Patti LaBelle’s recipe. It is a win! You have to taste it to believe it!
It’s a tough one to pick a non sweet, since it is one of the few times in the year that I have the fresh baked sweets. But it would have to be turkey, and then all the left overs to come. lol
jalapeno poppers!
My mom always made Rudolph salad so that’s a sentimental favorite, but her stuffing has to be my favorite. My father and brother would actually fight for the leftovers!
My favorite non sweet thing to eat at Christmas is my Grandma’s rolls! So soft…so close…
Merry Christmas!
I love my Grams ham with homemade beet horseradish sauce and potato salad. I could skip over the Thanksgiving turkey just to get to Christmas dinner!
My mom always made a “do-ahead” christmas breakfast caserole for Christmas morning. The one that is made of eggs, bread, cheese, sausage bacon… I LOVE it on Christmas morning, because I make it the night before and pop it in the oven when we start to open presents, when the chaos is over, the breakfast is done!!! DING!! Even when I make this caserole at other times of the year, it makes me think of christmas morning. It is my favorite thing to eat!
Homemade sour cream chicken enchiladas- sooooo good, and totally cuts the sweet out after cookie (and cake pop?) overdosing!
:)
sorry, i have to choose something sweet! my family’s originally from tennessee, and we have this AMAZING bourbon fruitcake recipe! Last year I didn’t get to eat any because my dogs got to it first, and coincidentally became VERY drunk on bourbon!
I’m a big potatoes fan. Any kind of potatoes. But we usually end up having mashed with yummy gravy.
I love the soldiers!
Every year we have baked terriaki chicken wings. They are perfect right out of the oven and all day long from the fridge.
OMG! What I wouldn’t give to go to that party! Anyway, my favorite food for Christmas is leftovers from the party we have on Christmas eve. A little shrimp, dip, vegetarian dishes, spinach artichoke dip, beer cheese dip and the list goes on…..
When I was little my step mom would do a Christmas Fondue, it was pure genius, and so fun and delicious!
Ummm….I actually really like the old traditional Turkey & Stuffing!
I cook something different each year. This year, its going to be chicken pot pie. I never made this before, it’s my first time. I have done shredded bbq pork, vodka penne, beef stew. By the time Christmas rolls around we are all tired of Turkey and Ham.
Sweet potatoes! Mmmmm!
I’m from Idaho and can’t live without potatoes for the holidays. Twice baked potatoes are super delish!!!
Christmas meal of Ham, Macaroni Cheese pie, Simple Salad, Ambrosia, Green Beans (maybe casserole) and Grandma Rolls.
Maybe Grandma Rolls are the main favorite made from a recipe from my husband’s Grandma thus the name. ; )
Our favorite is meat pies, we just made 44 over the weekend ^____^
Something I look forward to every year is scones. I know they can be sweet, but we always eat them for breakfast!!!
Eggs Benedict
so cute!! on christmas i love to eat potato casserole. i’m not sure if that’s the exact name, but it has pieces of potato covered with lots and lots of cheese. yum!!
Every year we have a traditional Norwegian dinner complete with – gasp – Swedish meatballs. (The Norwegians and Swedes are like oil and water, they don’t mingle.) But, those are my favorite. It wouldn’t be Christmas without them.
I want to go to that party. She should sell tickets. (great fundraiser wink:)) I will eat about anything someone else is making!!!Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing all the year through.
I just Love looking at these pictures! I’d love to be there!!
My fav would be my Mom’s cheeseball! Yum!
My favorite food at Christmas is skirle (but we call it mealie duff) yummy yum :)
We live in FL so we will be having stone crab!