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.
In my family we have a huge feast with the extended family on Christmas Eve…Ham, turkey and all the fixin’s– but on Christmas Morning, my immediate family have a breakfast FEAST…this just started about four years ago and we all look forward to it! My favorite is my breakfast casserole-eggs, cheese, ham, sausage, potatoes, diced tomatoes, bell peppers- baked to a perfect yummy goodness…with a BIG cup of coffee! :)
Turkey with stuffing is the best!
I love that decorated house, sooo beautiful and sooo much work!
The pictures of Julie’s candy wonderland just make me smile. I printed them off to inspire my kitchen Christmas decor. Just way to fun I want to come to her party!
my favorite non sweet christmas food is mashed potatoes. seriously i can never have enough potatoes in my life :)
I love gingerbread waffles for Christmas morning breakfast!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas Eve is the biscuits in the oven baking while I’m watching my daughter open up her gifts from Santa. Merry Christmas!
My favorite food at Christmas is honestly red velvet cake shaped like a wreath, and all the yummy sweet treats. But besides that, we love grilled ribeye steaks with baked potatoes and fresh cranberries. :)
My favorite Christmas food is by far my mom’s homemade dressing. It isn’t fancy. It isn’t complicated. It is just the one thing I look forward to the most during holiday dinners at her house.
My favorite is my father in laws famous egg casserole Christmas morning!! And as a child it was lasagna!
Our family always makes tamales every Christmas. It’s something I always look forward to every year.
Fresh polish sausage and pierogies! Only my Polish relatives make homemade pierogies! Love em!
I love to eat garlic mash potatoes lovingly made by my husband.
A nice bowl of creamy mac n’ cheese! Always good for anytime of the year. :D
I love to eat baked macaroni on Christmas. It’s a tradition my boyfriend and I started a few years back!
My favorite thing to eat is my dad’s ”cipate”. It’s layers of dough, cubed meat, potatoes and lots of spices. It’s delicious!
My favourite appetizer is pumpernickle bread with spinach dip. I have this every year for an afternoon snack.
I look forward to my Mom’s home-made noodles!!! yummy.
This party looks unbelievable. I want to be Julie when I grown up. :) We always eat simple on Christmas Eve, breads and yummy meats and cheeses. Even though there’s not much to it we look forward to it all year.
My family is full of foodies so we tend to go with non-traditional meals for the holidays. My favorite Christmas dinner to date was pan-fried trout, a potato-fennel-leek casserole, spinach salad and my grandmother’s recipe for tomato aspic. Merry Christmas, Bakerella! I <3 your website!
I love my mom’s Prime Rib – she is trying her hand at aging it this year – I can’t wait!
My mother in law made the best prime rib I’ve ever had. We’re hoping my sister in law can make something comparable this year.
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is lasagna. We have had it every year for at least 30 years. We also have fried dough (bread dough that is deep fried and sprinkled with sugar), purpettes (think flat meatballs fried, I have made mock meat ones for the past 14 years for me and the hubs because we are veggies), salad with my mom’s dressing, my dad’s smashed green olives, and some kind of pie for dessert. We repeat the whole meal for breakfast on Christmas morning. MMMMMM!
sausage balls! I wait for them all year long!
My favourite thing to eat at Christmas is the bread stuffing that comes out of the bird. My Grandmother handed down her recipe that includes pork sausage and celery,onions and wonderful spices. It is not Christmas without it. I hope that you have a wonderful Chrismtas.
Prime Rib!!
Looking forward to a glazed ham and loaded baked potatoes. Mmmmm. And will definitely leave room for something chocolately and melty. I love the holidays!
My favourite thing to eat on Christmas (morning) would be after everyone has dug through their stockings, but before moving onto the gifts under the tree, the last thing to pull out of the stocking is a Christmas orange (mandarin orange) and that smell as the orange is being peeled and then the tart yet juicy and sweet first bite is just the essence of Christmas to me.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you Bakerella!
My favorite has to be my mom’s turkey and gravy with mashed potatoes. It always reminds me of Christmas’s past!
christmas quiche… only made on christmas morning. sausage, swiss cheese, lots of eggs and heavy whipping cream and a hint of nutmeg and in a crisp pie crust.
my favorite.
My mom’s dressing! I love it and look forward to it at every single holiday! :)
Adorable
It would have to be our family’s long-time recipe of Hamballs. They are the perfect main course with their BBQy, sweet, juicy sauce over the “ham” mixture of ground pork, ground beef, minced cooked ham, and graham crackers…YUMMY!!!!
The recipe makes two large 9×13 pans, so there is thankfully ALWAYS leftovers!
Cheezy Hashbrown Caserole
My favorite thing to eat is green bean casserole! (technically its a thanksgiving dish, but still…). yum!
p.s.
i love your site!!!
My favorite thing is this apple cranberry dish that my mom makes. Yummy!
I love homemade shortbread cookies with a cup of hot tea!
Pepperoni and Cheese on crackers. I know it’s not exciting, but I feel like I can munch on appetizers guilt-free during the holidays.
You’ve outdone yourself this time with those darling nutcracker cake pops!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is beef tenderloin. It’s a real treat as I rarely eat beef during the year, and it does a good job counter-acting all the sweets.
My absolute FAVORITE thing to eat on Christmas GLAZED HONEY HAM! I stay away from it on Thanksgiving just so i can enjoy it even more at Christmas!
Sweet potato casserole! Pecans, brown sugar…heaven…
I LOVE turkey. I can’t imagine Christmas without it. =)
I love Chicken Ham!!! :)
My favorite is my mom’s green bean casserole. Made with sausage, ham, onions and cheese – these green beans bake in a mix of creamy soup and are topped with stuffing…..YUM!!!
prime rib with mashed potatoes! yummy
I love hashbrown casserole, I make one every year! Yum Yum!
This is an amazing post! I am in awe over the yummy pics!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is….. Homemade Parker House Rolls! I know, I know, but I’m such a bread-fan. Anyways, I make them from a Southern Living recipe, AMAZING, they don’t last.
My favorite is a corn casserole made with corn bread mix that my family makes ever year! Merry Christmas!
Alton Brownish – Baked macaroni and cheese! And ham. I’m craving a sweet delicious ham!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is my dad’s breakfast casserole with eggs, spicy sausage, hashbrowns and lots of cheese! It is a tradition to eat that before opening presents while sipping on mimosas!!
My favorite is my mother’s chicken and dressing. It’s made of cornbread, about 6 buttermilk biscuits, a slice of light bread, chicken broth, chopped chicken, green onion, milk and salt and pepper. Those from-scratch biscuits make all the difference! Thanks for the opportunity to win these nutcrackers. So cute! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. :)
Living in south Texas we have a Christmas tamale tradition, but I am a sucker for mashed potatoes. I make mine with a whole stick of butter, heavy cream and an entire package of cream cheese. Be still my heart! (literally!!)
Home made Tamales. My mom and i normally make them on christmas eve or christmas day… I can’t wait for this weekend.
We usually have ham, and Filipino food – a tradition in the family.
It would not be Christmas for me without our Mexican traditional homemade pork tamales. My favorite drink at the holidays is Abuelita brand Mexican hot chocolate. It’s creamy, cinnamony, and simply the best!
Cinnamon Rolls!!
Enchiladas – my sister makes them Christmas Eve and I make Manacotti on Christmas day, gives mom a break from cooking….
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas are the cookies!! My dad and I are the cookies monsters of the family
i would have to say ham!! :)
These are so cute!!!
I love Cranberry Salsa served over cream cheese with Wheat Thins….so pretty and Christmassy !
Pizza dip that my mother-in-law makes. Its so yummy! Sour cream as the base, a special salsa sauce on top, cheese, olives, and any of your favorite pizza toppings!
the side dishes: potatoes, spinach muffins, bread rolls, and so on!
Hmmm….that’s a tough one….it would have to be my uncles green bean casserole , but if I could chose a sweet it would be my moms delicious cheesecake with strawberries on top
Wait…You’re supposed to have something besides dessert at Christmas?
Hmmm. Then I guess I’d have to pick…my sister’s squash casserole. It’s basically buttery, cheesy, ritz-cracker-y goodness in a casserole dish.
Happy Holidays!
It has to be either old fashion bread stuffing, if the family comes home for Christmas…. or the Stacked Enchiladas, if it is just my hubby & I with our puppies. I must include my adoration for your lovely talant. Here on the Columbia River in the middle of Oregon, it has given me new ideas for treats for the small ones at our church. Thank you and Merry Christmas. May the Lord continue to bless you with ideas, talant and supportive family and friends.
My husband’s family does brisket for Christmas and it is my absolute favorite!
My favorite is a big pile of homemade mashed potatoes…not the fake stuff, and covered with yummy turkey gravy!! Don’t forget to make the volcano for dunking your roll in!! Can’t wait to have it!! Wishing everyone the best for this Christmas and a prosperous Cakepop New Year!!
I LOVE sweet potato casserole, even though it has the word sweet in it and it does taste sweet. Other than that, it has to be my mothers’ cornbread dressing.
Every Christmas we eat Chinese food and watch National Lampoon’s Christmas vacation!!
Ham, ham, and then a little more ham.
Ohhh! Those were nice! Please let me win this. I love them!
Cheesey Potatos are my favorite side! SO yummy….they go great with ham, or prime rib, or what ever you choose for your main dish :) Love the new double decker cake pops!
I absolutely love christmas cookies. I have a HUGE sweet tooth and i get excited for it every year. :)
Love love love the white Christmas tree cake pops! I’m definitely trying these today … you certainly outdid yourself :)
i love potato latkes!
Cornbread stuffing that my grandmother makes. She’s in her late 80s, and even if we try and use her recipe, it never tastes quite like her dressing! For something sweet, red velvet cake is always a winner, as are pecan and pumpkin pies.
I would love to see before and afters of Cupcake Julie’s space! Her decorating is just incredible. What a team you guys make!
As for food, I always used to resist, but crisp turkey skin! The one time of year I eat it with no guilt!
I love to eat my grandfather’s fudge!
I am originally from New Mexico (now in Arizona), where red or green chile is eaten with most meals; thus, we make red chile enchiladas with the chile made from scratch (pods); your photos are such an inspiration ~ thanks for sharing and God Bless!
Slow roasted Prime Rib for Christmas Eve dinner
Homemade Mac n Cheese, corn casserole, green bean casserole…. shall I go on?
Love your blog!!
Merry Christmas!
Lasagna or baked ziti. Despite the fact that my family is not Italian, I for some reason always associate Italian food with Christmas.
Also, my dad makes this KILLER egg and sausage casserole for Christmas breakfast!
P.S. These are beyond cute. Your post made me feel like I stepped into Candy Land decorated for Christmas.
Her decor is to-die-for gorgeous! I am soooo in love! Thanks for sharing!
SUCH sweet, adorable treats!!!
Our family usually has “raclette” for Christmas dinner. If you don’t know it, google it. It’s SO good and very popular here in Germany. Try that!
Mashed potatoes are good anytime. Loaded of course!
I love cheese balls!!! Yum!
My family has prime rib for Christmas dinner. This year, we’re adding garlic mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. I’ll be making rolls and green beans. Not sure what else yet, but it’s looking to be an excellent meal…
:)
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas time would have to be my mothers green bean casserole. She makes it every year and it always makes my belly SUPER happy. These soldiers are ADORABLE!
I’m a girl from the South. There are tons of yummy Christmas treats that I just can’t resist. Chief among them are carbs :) … so – my favorites (2 – I just can’t decide) are cheese grits (not actually a family recipe, but super yummy) and mashed potato casserole (my granny’s recipe. so. freakin’. tasty.).
And Cupcake Julie’s house is so Lovely.
My favorite thing to eat at our holiday dinners???? My mother-in-law’s macaroni and cheese. She passed away a little more than 6 months prior to marrying my high school sweetheart, but the summer before she passed, my husband and I had her come visit us for a while. During her visit she showed me how to make macaroni and cheese and I was blown away by the simplicity of it. We miss her dearly and I like to think she’s smiling down on me as I stand in my kitchen making her macaroni and cheese.
thats easy…chocolate covered cherries. they just scream Christmas to me. and if there not present, then its just not Christmas.
I’m Puerto Rican!!! Pork Loin with guava sauce!!!!
Feliz Navidad everyone!!
My favorite is the lasagna my mom makes to go along with the ham for Christmas. This year, however, we are having prime rib! I’ll of course miss the lasagna but hey, it’s prime rib!
Happy Holidays!
Strawberry and Spinach salad is the perfect color scheme for this time of year and sooo good with our Christmas dinner. I usually try to serve a red, white and green dinner for Christmas because my kids get such a kick out of it. :-)
I am just salivating reading everyone’s comments! I am looking forward to my mama’s standing rib roast :)
my mothers baked cheesey maccaroni with ham…. mmmmmmmmm. cant wait for it..
I LOVE the white Christmas tree pops! Gorgeous!
Deviled Eggs! It just isn’t a gathering if there isn’t a generous supply of deviled eggs! Have a blessed Christmas to a wonderfully talented woman!
Lyn S
St Paul, MN
sausage balls, hot dips, prime rib with roasted garlic @ grammas, twice baked potatos… basically everything i deny myself the rest of the year!!
Popovers with honeybutter-no mattter what else I make my kids and grandkids look for them first.
How beautiful! My favorite Christmas bite includes the perfect ratio of cranberry sauce, turkey, and mashed potatoes, one blissful fork full at a time. 8) Thanks for a chance!
Love my Grandmother’s stuffing. I look forward to it all year.
Our family loves to eat Prime Rib and Shrimp for our Christmas dinner. We have done this for years.. YUM!
My favorite thing is my mom’s homemade scalloped potatoes! Every bite says, “Comfort food!” with their cheesy, creamy goodness! YUM!
My mother makes amazing carrots…Can’t wait to get home!
Cheese balls! I am addicted, but only give in during the holiday season.
My aunt’s homemade dinner rolls are the BEST! So good I could fill up on them and not have room or anything else.
So adorable.I would love to see Cupcake Julies house in person.Wow!Your nutcracker pops are amazing.I would love to win these guys.My grandson is 5 and has a collection of nutcrackers.
One of my favorite things to eat would be divine potatoes… they are a cheesy potato casserole with a crunchy topping – delicious!
I love cranberry pom salad
must be non-sweet? because the one Christmas-only food I wait for a whole year is Pannetone – the Italian Christmas cake. Pure pleasure for me!
Beef Wellington!
Just beautiful! I wish I could be as crafty and creative as you and your friend, Julie.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures!
yorkshire pudding! it isn’t a sweet dish but it is incredible I can’t wait!
Amazing. Everything is so perfect.
HOT TAMALES! DEFINITELY!!
I think my favorite item to eat for Christmas growing up was the yorkshire pudding we made with the standing rib roast Christmas night. It was the only time of year we made it! Other than that the home made chex mix I make every year is one of my favorites as well as being the favorite of anyone I give it to!
Fried Turkey! I have been trying to find these little guys since your Toronto post!! Thanks for the chance!
I love the cookies although I have made SO many this year I don’t want to even LOOK at any until the new year!
To take a break from all of the traditional food of the holiday season, my husband’s family does a seafood gumbo over rice. It’s so delicious and the scent of it cooking all afternoon completely fills up the house. It doesn’t really get all that cold during Christmas in Louisiana, but a steaming bowl of gumbo warms you right up!
Hmmm… Here in Chile Chrimstmas is in summer, so we like eating fresh food like salad and seafood :D and ofcourse a lot of treats and desserts and sweet stuff, I’m in charge of those!!!
Every year for Christmas breakfast, my dad makes an amazing sausage bread. It has sausage and egg and cheese all rolled into a loaf of bread. Yummmy!
My grandmother makes the most amazing oyster stuffing. Unfortunately I won’t be eating any this year as we are haded away from snow-covered Iowa to New Hampshire for my first New England Christmas with my husband’s family. No idea what’s in store! :)
My favorite food at Chrismas is a Ham. Turkey is for Thanksgiving so Christmas is a Ham.
Oh and PICK ME! I looked at the store you posted and they don’t show them for purchase. If someone tells you of another store please post it. My husband loves Nutckrackers so he needs these. Or you could just PICK ME! ;)
We have a German recipe called Rouladen, which is very flat slices of beef rolled up with spinach, bacon, feta cheese, parsley…pretty much anything you can think of! They’re delicious!
Oh I love Fondue Christmas time.
Janice
I wish I was Julie’s friend too :) Merry Christmas
Janice
Baked ham drenched in the sauce from my mom’s baked beans. Yum!
Let’s see what be my favorite non sweet dish…. I love everything,, but Turkey is a must on Christmas, and mashed potatoes, stuffing and sweet peas!! but I do love sushi…maybe as an appetizer, yes I think I will make some sushi!!!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!!
My favourite thing to eat over the holidays is minced meat pie. With a ton of Ketchup.
My favorite thing to eat for Christmas dinner is turkey with stuffing. My mom makes her stuffing from scratch and even makes her own bread for it to! So yummy and classic! Its simple, but I love it!
Cheese Ball! I cannot wait to eat some Cheese Ball!
There’s stuff to eat at Christmas that isn’t sweet? Nuh-uh….
But seriously, my favorite non-sweet treat is my aunt’s shrimp mold recipe. It’s a very ’50’s molded spread made of shrimp, tomato soup and cream cheese (plus a bunch of other stuff) that gets made in a fish-shaped mold. It’s sooo good on Ritz crackers, and I have been known to make sandwiches out of the leftovers. Or just eat it with a spoon…
I love a good prime rib roast instead of the usual turkey :)
We do things a little different for Christmas. We don’t do a big fancy dinner, we do an old fashioned breakfast on Christmas. We have biscuits, sausage, homemade gravy, eggs and fruit. It is a really nice tradition that I love and it doesn’t involve anything sweet or too laborious!
My favourite is all the seafood my Italian in-laws make on Christmas Eve! Buon Natale!
My favorite thing…mashed potatoes!
either cornbread stuffing or zucchinni casserole
mashed potatoes and gravy make my heart happy on Christmas. Yum!
Merry Christmas
It would have to be my Grandpa’s famous dip. He used to make it every year and since his passing, my sisters and I keep the traditional alive. Plus it’s sooo good!
My family always does mexican food for Christmas…my fav thing to eat is always the tamales! YUM!
I grew up on home-made ravioli (with a beef and spinach filling), meatballs and sausage for Christmas dinner. We still make them every year and have a toast to mom & dad…Happy Holidays!
a honey baked ham on Christmas Day!
Baked Sweet Potato and mums stuffing
A buche de noel! Yum!
Not sure if this counts as non-sweet but I always look forward to my mom’s Baked Apple Oatmeal for Christmas brunch. It takes a while to bake so it’s perfect for making early and enjoying after the rush of opening Christmas presents. Merry Christmas Bakerella!
My favorite thing to eat around Christmas is my Mom’s shepherd’s pie – classic Irish Christmas eve meal!
My favorite Christmas food…Stuffing!!!! But not the kind that you put into the bird, the stuff from a box *hangs head in shame*
Broccoli Cheese Soup served out of a bread bowl!
I love Pickle Roll Up’s! Silly little name for a tid bit of deliciousness………..that for some reason I only seem to make at Christmas time!! I’ll be making some of them today! :)
Hi Bakerella! Our family holiday meal is a prime rib roast with burgandy gravy. Yum! The best!
My absolute favorite is filipino lechon (whole roasted pig). That dish takes up practcially the whole table but is the best.
Turkey and dressing!
Homemade Hot Rolls! Warm, yeasty, buttery hot rolls. YUMMY!
roast beef tenderloin with mushroom and red wine sauce and potato galette…same thing, year after year :)
Turkey and stuffing, I look forward to it every year at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Our family always makes homemade pizzas on Christmas Eve, low-key and fun. I like mine with as many veggies as I can find and dollops of goat cheese, so good!
I know the perfect place in my house for these fellas! Just love ’em!
I love eating my grandmother’s ravioli recipe.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
WOW – the pictures are amazing, I can’t even begin to imagine seeing this is real life. Willy Wonka’s Factory!!! I LOVE nutcrackers and would love to win.
I always bring the appetizers (mostly so I get what I want). :) I LOVE five pepper jelly spread over softened cream cheese served with wheat thins. YUMMO! A little sweet, a little spicy, with a little smooth creamy goodness.
Oops I just realized my link above is wrong. Here I go again… My grandma’s homemade rolls! They’re the best!
My daugher would flip over these nutcrackers and the soldiers. We decorate our house solely in nutcrackers for her. It all started with my nutcracker I had as a child. I was fascinated with the story and also loved to go watch the Nutcracker ballet. Somehow it stuck with her and now hour house is filled with nutcrackers big and small. Totally cute. When she wakes up, I will have to show her. not like I will be able to duplicate them but it did bring a smile to my face.
My grandma’s homemade rolls! They’re the best!
yummy yummy sausages wrapped in bacon are my favourite
It’s so hard to choose one. So, I’ll choose one meal. We vary things up around Christmas, trying all of our favorites again. This Christmas Eve we’re having Shrimp and corn bisque served with salmon fillets. Oh, my mouth’s watering already! Yum!
Stuffed shells or lasagna – my dad’s side is Italian, so growing up, we always had pasta of some sort. SO good.
My favorite X’mas food would be pot roast. ohh… so tender and juicy!
Pepperoni bread was a specialty my mom made every year in our family and my favorite as a kid, but since I celebrate with my husband’s family now I don’t really have a favorite because the food changes every year!
My family has a tradition of eating finger foods. We have sandwiches on little rolls and meatballs, little smokies, etc. I love it.
Every year my mom makes quiche for breakfast on Christmas. I just love having that tradition, it’s my favorite food of the holiday!
My fave food is peas & carrots in a cream sauce. I don’t know why, but this because a special occassion food in our family.
we do a different “theme” for christmas every year. i think my favorite would have to be cornish game hen with wild rice and orange sauce.
Wow, that Christmas Party looks like a dream come true!
My favorite food on Christmas is my mom’s roast pork with potato salad at the side. Yummy! =)
Our family never really has the same thing every year. I must get a tradition going! If I had to chose something, my mom often makes jalapeno cheese rice that is out-of-this-world-good!
Those cake pops are absolutely INCREDIBLE. You never cease to amaze, Bakerella! And cupcake Julie sure knows how to throw a Christmas party! Wow!
I am really hoping that my uncle makes a delicious Christmas lamb, perfectly roasted with lots of garlic & rosemary. Yum!
I love all my sweets but I’d have to say my favorite thing is the oatmeal stuffing. My grandfather is from Scotland and they use oatmeal in a lot of food. The stuffing is delicious with lots and lots of butter on it and a some gravy. OH so yummy!!!!!!!!
Cranberries! Cranberries in muffins, cakes, pies, Cranberries in sauces, dips, breads. Christmas and Cranberries makes for a Happy Holiday season
Prime rib….baked potato…and green bean casserole…can’t wait!
Love the cupcake decorations! I am inspired for next year. Sooo cute! Our new tradition is shellfish on Christmas Eve and beef on Christmas Day. This year it’s Lobster Pot Pie (inspired by Barefoot Contessa) and Beef Wellington (Tyler Florence’s recipe)
Hi, I love Christmas! Many celebration in Singapore! Salmon sashimi is my favorite! Yummy!
I love tamales this time of the year!
My favorite is pierogi on Christmas eve! Making them is time consuming, but oh so rewarding! Mmmm.
Love brussell sprouts ….. either in a cream sauce or sauteed with olive oil and bacon. Yummy.
Well, my favorite is chocolate pie but if you’re looking for non-sweet, that would have to be either chex party mix or as we call it here in Texas, Texas Trash, or my mom’s cheese ball.
These photos are gorgeous!
For Christmas dinner, we alternate between ham and roast beef, with a cheese potato dish, salad, and other vegetables. We start the day with a big breakfast: french toast with vanilla, cinnamon & nutmeg on cinnamon swirl bread, homemade cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs, fruit, and bacon. Yum! I can’t wait.
My favorite is simple enough, mashed potatoes and gravy with corn :)
Wow, so beautiful!
My mum makes a fantastic butternut squash and parsnip dauphinoise bake that always disappears too quickly! I also love roasted chestnuts with a sprinkling of salt.
Happy Christmas everyone!
…and I was just pulling out the Christmas menu to see what I could get started on…A new tradition (for us) is a carrot ring on the table – served warm with peas surrounding it.
I loven love love the tree cake pops!!!
As far as what I like to eat on Christmas…. Besides everything?!? Umm ok, if I have to choose 1 I guess it would be chicken,broccoli and ziti!
Without a doubt, my grandmother’s cornbread stuffing. It’s incredibly simple comfort food that reminds me of her the whole day long!
Super cute. I loved your post about her stuff last year, but I love it even more this year! Super cute!!!
We have a special Christmas Eve dinner with our in-laws
my husband makes these amazing poor man’s truffles
I love corn casserole a spicy cheese grits! My aunt makes them every year, and she always makes an extra dish of cheese grits just for me!
Either praline-topped sweet potatoes or fried turkey. Hard to choose for me!
I ultimate favorite dish during Christmas is a chicken casserole my friend makes. Its sooo goood and I dont event stress over the calories when Im eating it! :)
Mashed Potatoes! I looooove mashed potatoes.
And do you have any idea how she did that awesome upside down tree thing? Because that is just too cool. I want to try that next year!
There is nothing that beats my husband’s grilled turkey! So delish and he uses the best seasoning from Cooper’s in Llano, TX. YUM!!
My favourite thing to eat at Christmas is our traditional English christmas dinner. We have roast turkey, carrots and turnips mashed together, sprouts, roast potatos, mashed potatos, pigs in blankets and gravy. Mmmmm mmmm!
We always have homemade ravioli on Christmas. Doesn’t sound too traditional, but I would take it over ham any day!