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.
Appetizers!! Spinach puffs, meatballs, cheese balls, spinach dip, all kinds of savory yummies. They help to balance out the 15,000 pounds of cookies I will consume. ;-)
Diane
My favorite thing to eat is honey ham and cheesy scalloped potatoes. Wouldn’t be the holidays with out it!
My homemade bread!
I like to have a roast on Christmas, a traditional dinner, have even made Yorkshire Pudding. My dad was from Britain so it reminds me of growing up. This year we decided to forgo the roast and have turkey instead.
Happy Holidays! Cupcake Julie has a wonderful house. I loved the pink Snowman tree!
Cheese biscuits for breakfast (well…technically brunch)!
We have the whole family over for Alamo Tacos then the Christmas story and talent show.
hmmmm, do mimosa’s count as favorite food?..well, they do have orange juice :) a must for Christmas Day!
Those Christmas Tree cake pops are SUCH a great idea! My favorite non sweet for Christmas is my dad’s posole which is a Mexican soup made with hominy and chili cooked pork in a yummy chili broth. Its my favorite food ever!
Honey-baked, spiral-cut ham is a required food on our Christmas table.
I love Brussle Sprouts… not that they are a Christmas food- but everyone seems to eat them around then…
my most favorite thing to eat on christmas…is chinese food. when my sister and i got old enough to where our extended families didn’t come over to see all our toys…my mom had had enough of the cooking. so we started going out to a chinese buffet for lunch or dinner!!
it wasn’t until a few years later we first saw, and fell in love with “a christmas story”…but it’s what we do to this day! now my husband loves some sweet and sour chicken for christmas too =)
Hi Bakerella,
Our favorite thing to eat on Christmas Day is Christmas Breakfast. We make the works…sausage gravy with homemade biscuits (my husband makes the best ones), cooked sausage, eggs, orange juice, eggnog, banana nut bread and you have to have sorghum for those biscuits…it is all so yummy! Oh…and on Christmas Eve my grandchildren come over and we make sugar cookies for Santa and I must say they are some of the best sugar cookies I have ever had (I got the recipe 25 years ago from a girl in Colorado). Thanks for sharing the pictures, I love your blog! Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
Mashed potatoes
Oh my gosh! So perfect! They would match my chef nutcracker so well!
Well, we are usually so “sick” of junk food and sweets by Christmas that we love to have sausage balls or sausage pinwheels for breakfast and either a big bowl of home-made Santa Fe Chicken Chili, or pinto beans and cornbread, or maybe fancy chicken salad croissants to nibble on throughout the day. Merry Christmas! ; )
My favorite is a traditional turkey dinner with stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy, etc. But this year I am making a vegetable lasagna…. sounds good, and my daughter and her boyfriend have gone vegetarian, so it fits the bill!
DeniseB
My favorite is the red cabbage. We’ve been doing a German dinner for the last few year….sauerbraten, red cabbage, spaetzle, etc.
I love pavlova with cream and strawberries. Yum!
Our Christmas meal lasts all day with Broccoli Chicken fettuccini, to a Honey spiral Ham, and an Cranberry apple stuffing to a fruit salad with sides of sweet corn and mashed potatoes with gravy and warm sweet rolls with butter dripping off the sides. Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday!!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is homemade noodles. The noodles are made from eggs & water, rolled thin, cut into strips and then boiled in chicken broth. It’s a comfort food that I’m not sure I’d want to do without at Christmas! Homemade noodles here I come!!!!!!!!!!
My mom’s rice stuffing. YUM.
those little soliders can march right on to my house. they would fit right in with all the cupcake related decorations i have in my kitchen. they would be soooo happy!
my favorite Christmas food would have to stuffed pork loin- yum. i love it all though, and would not want to hurt any of the side dishes feelings- it’s ALL good @ our Christmas.
Merry Christmas everyone! jkl
Breakfast casserole or sausage balls!
My mom’s homemade country style egg noodles with fluffy mashed potatoes. All of our holiday meals include these and there are never any leftovers. I know how to make them, but they always taste better the “way mom makes them”. ;)
I love sweet potatoes. Is that still a sweet?
Mom’s homemade chex mix. It’s, no contest, my favorite salty holiday tradition. :)
Satay on BBQ :)
Im in NZ so its summer on Xmas, BBQ is always great! :)
I think my favorite Christmas dish at the moment is green bean bundles. I learned how to make them from my mom, and they are always a hit!!!
It’s a family tradition to have our rendition of Yule Log on Christmas morning, passed down from generation to generation. It’s pastry dough filled with either cinnamon, sugar and walnuts or almond paste rolled up to look like a log . It gets drizzled with sugar glaze and sprinkles when it’s done. Love it!!! :o)
We are Cuban and we eat pork and black beans and rice on Christmas eve it’s sooooo delicious!
since we don’t have the “traditional” fare, i’d say my favorite is cheddar broccoli soup
Turkey, love having it also after Christmas as leftovers.
Ham
They are adorabel
Love Nutcrackers… Love Cupcakes … Love, love, love this giveaway.
I make biscuits-n-gravy for breakfast on Christmas morn. Mmmmmm can’t wait!
Shrimp! My husband’s specialty on Christmas Day! Shrimp Cocktail with his homemade sauce, and batter coated deep fried shrimp. Sooooo Good!
Merry Christmas!
Ooh! I like this theme, on Christmas i love LASAGNA! My aunt makes it and they are delicious!
Ooh! I like this theme, on Christmas i love LASAGNA! My aunt makes it and they are de-lish!
The best way to start a Christmas meal is with Wedding Soup! The little meatballs are oh so yummy!!!!
Ooo… I love having warm homemade mac n cheese with caramelized onion mixed in and on top. Plenty of shredded cheddar on top too.
My favorite food at Christmas is my mothers New Potato Salad. When I was little, probably up to 13, I thought it was called NUDE potato salad…like, naked. Every time she makes it, it brings laughter and the story back to life…good thing I finally learned the correct name for it :)
We traveled to Indiana this past weekend for an early Christmas with my family. My brothers and SIL made a super holiday meal…but a bit non traditional. Steaks from the grill…yes even in the freezing cold, twice baked potatoes, fresh green beans with onions and garlic, rolls, delicious Blackberry Wine from French Lick, IN. It was all crazy delicious!
I LOVE good ole’ basic green bean casserole! I would eat it for every meal, but it doesn’t feel right to have it at any time other than Thanksgiving or Christmas :)
I know you said something non sweet but I would have to say my grandmother’s homemade sweet rolls. She is no longer with us but when I (attempt) to make them it brings back great memories.
For years we have eaten ham and potato salad at Christmas…that and strawberry congealed salad are my favorites!
I love Christmas ham…it just wouldn’t be Christmas without it!
Chicken & Dressing with cranberry sauce. My favorite
My favorite thing each year is actually on Christmas Eve. While my mom is a fabulous cook and Christmas dinner host, we have spent the last 25 years gathering after church at the homes of family friends (there are 20 of us but only 2 homes rotate). My friend’s father, Mr. Ammirati, always made empanadas (he was from Panama) and they were amazing. Two years ago, he passed away suddenly 2 weeks before Christmas. Our families still got together for a low-key night of togetherness and prayer, but his son and daughter made his empanada recipe. They weren’t as pretty but just as special and delicious. They perfected them a bit more last year and I am sure this year, they will be even better. So definitely, Mr. A’s empanadas. He started a good thing and we love him more with every bite for giving us something simple and delicious to remember him with!
I love to have make a head mashed potatoes with garlic and cream cheese and lots of butter!! Baked the next day. oh so yummy and comforting. :)
I like pot roast with potatoes and carrots. It’s delicious and an easy fix for a relaxing Christmas. I just throw everything in the crock pot in the morning, and it’s ready in time for dinner!
mmm my favourite christmastime food is definitely yorkshire pudding! I always end up eating more than my share :)
I love eating roast beef, creamed onions and yorkshire pudding on Christmas Day. Our family has that for as long as I can remember (almost 60 years!).
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is Prime Rib. I use Paula Deans recipe and it always turns out great.
Cheese Ball! Whether its homemade or store bought, you have to serve it with Wheat Toppers Crackers on a plate shaped like a Christmas tree!
Our tradition is to make homemade pizzas on Christmas Eve. My favortive part of the holidays. My little family treks on over to my Mom’s and we do presents and pizza. Everyone gets to make their own and let me tell you, no pizza is better all year. Christmas day is back at our house and this year we are making a roast goose with all the trimmings. Mmmm.
I love corn pudding!!! It’s my favorite, but it’s kind of sweet, so a totally savory favorite is the homemade honey baked ham!!
Every year on Christmas Eve, my mom makes a variety of appetizers that we eat while watching a classic Christmas movie. My favorite one that she makes is a ranch flavored cheese ball that is to die for!
my mother’s sticky rice!
it’s a sticky rice with musrhoom and chinese sausages. Simple and one of my favorites!
Beef Tenderloin~
Baked Corn and Sweet Potato Casserole. The baked corn doesn’t involve creamed corn like most do, it’s a special kind of corn that makes it out of this world. And the sweet potatoes don’t have the typical marshmallows on top either…its a creamy casserole with pecans on top. Both made by my mother and are to die for!!!! :)
instead of a big Christmas dinner we always had a big ol Christmas breakfast. growing up we always had an egg/sausage casserole, but my new favorite is a mexican breakfast casserole with chorizzo and corn toritllas and chili and eggs….and of course, cheese!
Sausage Balls!! Whether Christmas morning is spent with the whole family or if its just my Dad and me we will always have Sausage Balls. They have been a tradition in our home since I was young.
Cranberry meatballs! Yum!
we’re going to do things different this year… enchiladas with our little family.
my favorite has to be cheese fondue (I make the best tomatoe cheese fondue ever, if I do say so myself!)
My favorite thing to eat is tamales!
my favorite is cioppino. It’s a once a year treat. I can’t wait to make it. All the different seafood tastes so wonderful. yum.
I love to eat Sour cream potatoes for christmas!
Super Cute decorations!!!!! Love the cake pops
I think I got a cavity just thinking about how fabulous all of those sweets would be. I DIE!!!
Favorite non-sweet…..call me crazy, but I can hardly wait to eat brussels sprouts on Christmas night. They’re roasted with bacon and walnuts and they are so delicious that we eat them like they are candy.
IMAGINE!!!
Enjoy your holidays!
I love my grandma’s noodles. It’s the easiest recipe in the world, literally just egg noodles, margarine, and bread crumbs. But, oh so YUMMY!!
I love waking up on Christmas morning spending time with loved ones. My favorite breakfast food is cheesy grit casserole with bacon bits mixed in! My aunt makes it and it is Delicious!!!
We always do a crown rib roast. So yummy!
We have breakfast( but at dinner time) every Christmas Eve with my grandparents- since I was a child! They passed away 3 years ago in car accident the day after Christmas. Our family still continues the tradition of Christmas breakfast “dinner” each year. I love every minute of celebrating their lives with family.
Kathy
Some good ol’ homemade grandma’s recipe lasagna! My mouth is watering right now just thinking about it!
toss-up between Mom’s mashed potatoes and Dad’s scalloped potatoes :) yum
My favorite thing to eat is my Nana’s icebox friutcake.My Nana passed 2 years ago this July and I wish I could sit one more time at her kitchen table in her drafty old house and eat that yummy fruit out of wax paper.
Ham!!!!! :]
My favorite food at Christmas is my mom’s lasagna. She makes *everything* from scratch, it’s amazing!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is my Grandma Billie’s southern dressing. We only make it at Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I really look forward to it.
I would have to say oyster stew on Christmas eve! That party is delightful!
I’m Italian…I love the lobster tails and lasagna!!!! Yum!
We always have london broil and shrimp for dinner. Yum!!!
My sister’s mashed potatoes! She puts garlic, milk, chives, and red potatoes in them! Ohhhh sooo GOOD!
STUFFING!! CANADA has the best!
My favorite to eat at Christmas is the tamales!
i LOVE good mac n’ cheese.
plus all of the other million foods that are also associated with Thanksgiving! Its two amazing dinners in two months!!
Ham. Love it!
My faves for the holidays are my mom’s wet bread & celery (dressing) and my homemade mac & cheese. Yummy!
You already know I have 17 grandchildren, so sugar overload doesn’t begin to do the concept
justice.
My favorite food at Christmas, the next day after the “big” meal. Sourdough bread, sliced thick,
mayonnaise on one slice,turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, more bread. Use the pannini press
just forluck, the best ever. Topped off, of course, wtih just one more red velvet cake pop,
Santa hat, why not.
You have just made me the “hit” this year with cake pops. Every one loves them, and my
self confidence has just been boosted a bit. Can’t wait until next year.
More grandchildren, more cake pops.
BTW, thanks for the hints on the ice cream cone / Santa ideas. Worked out great
Corn Pudding thats over the top !!! and Chestnut & Sausage Bread stuffing with Roast Turkey, of course!!! and let’s not forget some roasted brussel sprouts, just because your mom said so. . .
Mine is “tourtière” : a wild game meat pie with potatoes too inside the 2 crusts. To be a real xmas one, it has to have holes on the top shaped like decoration, like candy cane, tree, bell, etc
I’m not much of a meat eater, so big dinners aren’t much for me. I love potatoes, though, and eat a ton on both Christmas and Thanksgiving :)
Homemade chili and tamales!
My favorite is–brunch items (ie egg casseroles)
Do sweet potatoes count? They’re not dessert (though maybe they should be haha)
If not then ham. mmmmmm
Ham, I love ham for Christmas.
Hm, we vary it quite a bit, but I always look forward to some variation on mashed potatoes with gravy or sauerkraut. Being German, my mother ate them too much growing up so real mashed potatoes are like a treat to me! Mmm!
Cutest little soldiers ever! my favorite is my moms red beans and rice. it is ah-mazing :)
My sis-in-law makes amazing stuffed mushrooms at Christmas that my family can’t seem to live without. :)
My favourite thing to eat at Christmas is creme brule!
Beef Tenderloin with horseradish sauce YUM
My daughter has been asking for a nutcracker (she’s 5) she would love these!
Looking forward to scrimp scampi and shrimp cocktail.
Bacon,bacon,and more bacon.
My fave thing to eat on the holidays is my moms cookies: Lebkuchen — a german cookie that my gram made, the thinnest sugar cookies, pepperkar stars with cement icing, caramel nut slices, jan hagels, spritz stars, mexican wedding cakes, tiny coffee shortbread men and women, chocolate crinkles, and more! Every year she bakes and bakes, just like gram used to, and gives plates to the ladies at the banks, the post office, the grocery in town, plus the family and (when we were kids) to our teachers! Lovely memories and tastes!
Stuffing, just before you put it into the oven-when its warm from the broth.
Non-sweet? I love munching on carrots and olives with some Ranch dressing.
cheese, fruit and cracker tray.
Our Christmas menu changes every year but this year I have a favorite appetizer and it doubles as a meal for my husband and I; our munchkins refuse to try them ;) It’s beef tenderloin wrapped in uncured bacon from Trader Joe’s. They are simply delicious!
Two day old green bean casserole. For some reason it just tastes better a couple days later! I saute the green beans with chopped garlic and spices before putting the casserole together.
my husband make these great potato croquettes!
My mom always makes stuffed pistolettes for Christmas eve- hollowed out pistolette rolls with a filling made of ground sausage, cheese, chopped broccoli, and rotel tomatoes….mmmmmmmmmm
My favorite thing to eat would have to be the candy canes :D
But I always try to make Christmas cupcakes or something for the family. And I’m told they’re nice (x
Honey baked ham and my mother’s homemade macaroni and cheese. It is always really nice because everyone grazes on the ham all day.
I love Holiday Turkey! It’s really the only time I eat it besides Thanksgiving.
For me, Christmas is all about the desserts! But I love the clementines that are in season now and we’ve had lasagna as our traditional Christmas Eve dinner for the past few years.
It would have to be standing rib roast with horseradish.
I know it’s not anything amazing, but I love Turkey. Specifically LEFTOVERS. We do everything from Turkey Sweet Potato Stoup to turkey sandwiches and turkey cheddar wraps…..
When I need a break from the sweet, I go for the turkey every time.
My favorite thing to eat is breakfast on Christmas morning. I can’t exactly pinpoint what is my favorite b/c I love everything!
Every Christmas, I make a huge brunch for my family. We love breakfast foods so it became our tradition to do this instead of having a big lunch or dinner.
My favorite dish to make is this breakfast pizza from a cookbook I inherited from my mom. Crumbled cooked sausage, hasbrowns, eggs, cheese — so yummy, I can’t even tell you.
I love the traditional Cuban “Noche Buena” (Christmas Eve) dinner which consists of Roast Pork, black beans and rice, yuca, and sweet plantains. YUM!
Pineapple Ham! My mom makes some kick-a$$ pineapple ham. haha~ :P
cresent rolls
REAL ITALIAN HARD ROLLS!
On Christmas eve, after the kids are tucked in bed, my husband and I share a small brie baked in cresent roll dough then drizzled with honey and a glass or two of wine. Yum!
Turkey!
Thanks for the chance to win. I’m making some cake pops for Christmas this year! Will be getting your cookbook tomorrow!
Since I am now in the South I look forward to some greens, yams and smothered chicken or porkchops…yum!
Now that is my kind of party, sweets everywhere. Funny enough, I woke up this morning and remembered your blog from last year and I was going to look it up today to see your friend’s sweet Christmas decorations.
my moms creamed carrot stuffing….its FAB!!!!!!!!
My mom’s chicken and dressing! I dream about it year-round.
It changes every year but ham remains a favorite staple food!
chicken and dumplings!
During Christmas time, I love to eat ham. My mom always makes this smoked ham with pineapple and maraschino cherries, and it’s glazed and baked and it looks like a cherry pie. It’s delicious! :)
White Cheddar Mashed Potatoes – baked with a crusty parmesan/breadcrumb top!! mmmm… I think I’ll go make some now….
I love the pictures…I wish I was there :)
I love Ham on Christmas…
My mother’s homemade meatballs, sauce, and spaghetti. Delicious!
Would love to get my hands on the cupcake nutcracker! I don’t think I’d be able to use them just once a year during the holidays–I’d be too tempted to keep them up year round!
My sister-in-law’s awesome cheese ball with crackers. She makes several of them each year and gives them as gifts. They are YUMMY!
Merry Christmas!
For the past 30 years my dad invites the family, neighbors, and anyone else over for made to order omelettes. Usually about 40 – 50 people show up, and he stand at the stove all morning adding just about anything you could think of to your omelette.
My favorite is my Grandma’s stuffing. She stole the recipe from a restaurant that she worked in when she was young. She passed away almost 20 years ago but I remember her whenever I smell that stuffing.
Happy Holidays!!!
Gotta love ham and mashed potatoes for a good Christmas dinner. Love all the ‘sweets’ and I got a Bakerella cake pop book for an early Christmas present. Might have to try some of those adorable white trees as my first ever cake pops!
Homemade ham, real green beans and mashed potatoes. Yum! But honestly I’m gonna read all of your comments and maybe try something new.
My favorite thing to eat is all the different types of cookies from scratch that I Make. The kids and I spend 1 whole day making them 12/24/10 and eat most of them on 12/25/10.
My daughter-in-law brought a Yule Log to our family gathering and it was great
I love my Mom’s cranberry salad. I could eat as a dessert!!
Did they ever finish the giant nutcrackers? I want pictures of that awesomeness!! give me popcorn any day, especially christmas
baked honey ham and green bean casserole. hands down.
Non-sweet? Ohh that’s tough. I always love a good turkey though. Lots and lots of turkey :-)
5 years ago we saw a Turducken on Unwrapped. We ordered one and it is our favorite holiday tradition. I even started sending them to our loved ones as gifts. Who wouldn’t want to come home to 15 lbs of Turducken!
My Dad’s family is Greek and we always have roast leg of lamb, greek salad and manestra (orzo baked with tomato sauce and lamb drippings)…Yum! My children have told me that one of their favorite dinners is Christmas!
Cheesy Potatoes! Yum, and it’s just not Christmas without them!
Gnocchi in a light homemade tomato sauce!
those christmas trees are soooo adorable! My fiance got me a cake pop book for my birthday and i love it! I even want to have the wedding cake pops on our wedding. My favorite thing to eat during christmas is the turkey with rasperry jelly.
Favorite thing to eat on Christmas is my homemade meat lasagna….mmmmmm!
I am almost burned out on sweets too…ALMOST. But, my non sweet holiday favorite is ham and homemade chex mix.
Scalloped corn…I only get it at Thanksgiving and Christmas because my husband can’t stand it. Just like I only get shrimp on my birthday because he hates seafood and it’s that one time I get what I want.
Breakfast is my fave thing to eat on Christmas. we have a “casserole” of sorts – potatoes, egg, sausage, and cheese. And waffles on the side.
My favorite food is Pioneer Woman’s mashed potatoes. Have you tried them? They are divine.
I love homemade cream corn… YUM!
My mother makes prime rib every Christmas eve. Yummy!
My Mother’s chicken dressing — It’s crazy good!
Prime Rib, or definitely something involving beef! I’m turkey-ed out by Christmas.
Sugar cookies!
My favorite thing is to make and eat peanut butter balls! How can you resist peanut butter and chocolate goodness?
We always had lasagna growing up as a “side” for Christmas. It wasn’t made often and I looked forward to it! My most favorite food!
My favorite thing is peppermint bark. I like making my own because whenever I buy it there never seems to be much peppermint in it.
My BF’s family makes prime rib for Christmas dinner… and I think that might be one of my new favorite traditions! So delicious!
Mine is cornbread stuffing – my mom’s recipe. I eat it for days and days afterwards, because it’s the only time of year we make it – that, and Thanksgiving!
Our Christmas Dinner always has Prime Rib – smoked all day on our pellet smoker. YUM!
Prime rib! Sweet potatoes and corn soufflé !!
in mexico we have a lottttt of christmas dishes but one of my favorite is the POZOLEEE mmmm so hot and yummy with lime and the radishes and also love cheese and beens TAMALES omg and how to forget fruit punch and refried beens with chorizo wowww i will never finish my list but i looooovvveeee all the foodddd and specially in christmas
When we have Christmas with my dad’s side of the family we always have homemade raviolis with spinach stuffing. They are so good. Sometimes we make the stuffing by itself as a side dish when we need a fix during the rest of the year.
Lasagna…LOL don’t laugh. My MIL says she’s just not up to making a huge tradtional dinner. That’s ok….I’d so rather have her lasagna!
Prime Rib! Can’t wait!
Stuffing! Real, basic, yummy stuffing.
A good, sausagey breakfast casserole is perfect for Christmas morning.
We start w/ a sausage, egg, cheese, hash brown potato casserole and grand marnier french toast. We snack on crab dip and spinach artichoke dip during the day. Dinner is a Ham w/ baked asparagus, potatoes au gratin and spiced baked apples.
I made your cake pops for neighbors and holiday parties. Mine were very elementary but loved by every one who received them! Cheers and happy holidays~
I always look forward to the sweets- but since you want non sweets I have to say I look forward to my Mema’s clam dip and the ham. (But mercy her divinity lives up to it’s name)
I love spiral honey ham and corn pudding! Certain foods just bring back certain memories!
I have a major sweet tooth so to pick something that isn’t sweet is kind of tough.. it’s a side dish and not a dessert but it’s gotta be the yams/sweet potatoes that I make. They are absolutely majorly yummy!!
Hmm my new favorite thing to eat at Christmas is the potato bake thing my aunty made. It has shredded potato, a few pats of butter, cream of chicken soup, sour cream and cheese all layered in a baking dish then bake until hot and melted. YUM!!!
I love eating money bread on Christmas eve!
Whenever my family gets together at my grandma’s, it means elaborate cheese platters of all kinds of fancy (and delicious) cheese with crackers! It’s pretty amazing.
My absolute favorite part of Christmas dinner is the pickled platter. When I was a kid, my grandma always had these little platters that had baby dill pickles, black & green olives, cherry peppers, mini corn on the cob things and pearl onions. I always tried to sit right in front of one of the platters so I could get first grabs. Those platters are still my favorite!
Tamales. Absolutely delish, but they have to be fresh and homemade!
These are too cute. I am moving into my own place and would love to start getting my own decorations together!
Broccoli casserole and mashed potatoes with gravy!
I like to have ham, it’s a family favorite.
I love breakfast casserole – a make ahead mixture of bread, eggs, sausage, and cheese. You make it the night before and bake it in the morning. So yummy! This and eggnog are my favorite Christmas treats!
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Uh-oh…are you going to disqualify me for something sweet? The _only_ thing I can think of is what I make for Christmas breakfast and that’s a cheese bread. It’s a braided yeast bread with a cream cheese filling. That’s the only constant we have on Christmas from year to year. Everything else changes depending on where we are or who we’re with.
Actually, we do a big Christmas breakfast and I know you didn’t want sweet, but I make a mean cheese danish and it is everyones favorite!! By the way, your 2nd book arrived today, I bought one for my daughter in law for Christmas and when it came I couldn’t part with it so I bought another one for her!! We are going to have so much fun!!! Thank you for your ideas and your blog is awesome!!
we do the traditional italian 7-fishes dinner on xmas eve….it takes hours and we have different wine with each course. its glorious and its a great family tradition!!
I’m simple I love turkey and mashed potatoes with gravy. :-)
When are you going to post a tutorial on the nutcrackers? I need to perfect that before next year for my daughter’s ballet performance.
I love my mom’s cornbread dressing. She’s fixes the best!
Prime Rib Roast with Horseradish Sauce is a favorite of mine.
A tradition with our family. Thank you for your email uupdates, I love receiving them. I have purchased your book and am looking forward to making some cake pops one of these days.
Sonja May
My favorite food at christmas is fruit salad that my mother in law ,makes. Yum!!!!!!!!!!
Last Christmas, we bought a rosemary Christmas tree (a small rosemary bush pruned into the shape of a tree) as a table centerpiece. We snipped off fresh branches to flavor our pot roast for Christmas dinner. Fresh herbs flavoring roast beef, potatoes, and vegetables is my new favorite Christmas meal!
My birthday is on Christmas and my mother always made me a cocoa spice cake with divinity icing. It always looked so pretty for Christmas and tasted as good as it looked!!
I wish my house was decorated like that,
we just bought the tree and it has 3 small decorations I made.
all my Christmas stuff is dirty because the place were it was stored was flooded because of the hurricane Alex
(I live in Monterrey Mexico)
Anyways… we are not spending Christmas here so it’s okay.
I love to eat turkey in Christmas, it’s that one thing that screams CHRISTMAS IS HERE!
I know turkey for you is more like thank giving-ish
And I love to drink sparkling apple juice :)
Home made mashed potatoes. Mmmmmmmmmm
My fave on Christmas (which is always the same, my mom loves her traditions) is definitely the mashed potatoes. She makes them with red potatoes, turnips and carrots. Yum :) They’re nothing fancy, but we only eat them once a year! Being French-Canadian, tourtière (a meat and potato pie) is also a favorite of mine.
My favorite Christmas food is a carry over from Thanksgiving. I love pumpkin bread. I use a much handed down recipe and look forward to it every year!
Happy Holidays, LOVE the cake pop nutcrackers and trees!