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.
My favorite thing is my mom’s mashed rutabaga :D Yum!
My personal favourite is stuffing with gravy, I could skip the whole meal and have just that!!!!!
Merry Christmas Bakerella!
My favorite Christmas food is my mom’s coffee cake that we eat while opening presents.. it’s the best!
what a party!….and anything sweet potato…well even tho thats kinda usually sweet, i found a recipe on martha that’s pretty savory and uses sweet potato, some regular spuds, and butter/sage….yummy and savory!….recipe linked below :)
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/sweet-potato-and-sage-butter-casserole
I LOVE my the Spiral Honey Ham my Grandma makes :) It is definitely a Christmas staple, and although I won’t be eating it this year, I’ll still remember the way it tastes! Hahaha :)
Ham and cheesy mashed potatoes, yum! Everything looks so great.!!! My daughter collects nutcrackers…the more unique the better and these are adorable!
Hi Bakerella
You continue to amaze me. Now that your cook book is out, I was thinking this is it, what more can you make, you have everything in the cookbook. But, no… you have lots of talent and thank you for sharing it with us.
Can’t think of anything without sweets. If I have to pick one I will pick roasted Chicken
I love hot cereal mix (homemade chex mix) for a salty treat during the holidays.
Wow ! The Festive trees and treats are truly amazing, now that’s what I call a magical x-mas.
My all time favorite Christmas food would be my home baked
spicy mac and cheese pie, my family looks forward to it every year.
My kids and I decided that this is the last year with our current snowman and santa theme and fell in love with the candy theme! We’ll be spending some our free time in the next year creating something similar to her decor. Thanks for the great post.
Beef tenderloin!! YUM
We do a heavy appetizer Christmas Eve with the family and my favorites are Really Onion Dip (Food Network) and layer dip.
Hmm. I would have to say my mama’s ham. Mmm. So good.
My favorite is Cornbread Dressing with gravy, and of course ham and green bean casserole to go along with it.!!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is a Bûche de Noël. My family is French so it’s a tradition. I’ve made two so far and I’m really exited to try out a new style this year!
My favorite food is the cornbread dressing. But the best part of the holiday is spending time with family, sitting around the table enjoying the good food and catching up with family. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
We always have breakfast Christmas morning and I love eating the country ham!
we had a spinish/garlic dip last night which was terrfic.
My favorite thing to eat around Christmas time is homemade “trash” mix. Its a recipe that has been passed down in the family.
I love the treats my coworkers bring in to share… especially our annual cookie exchange!
Those guys are adorable! And I’m in need of Christmas decorations. My favorite thing? Probably dressing. I love it so. With a big pile of cranberry sauce. Not the real stuff, the stuff in a can. We’re not fancy over here.
I like cinnamon apples. They are delicious!
My birthday is the 21st, so Christmas and my birthday have always been entertwined and a non-stop food fest. My grandma used to make her southern fried chicken for my birthday, and that was my favorite holiday (non-sweet) food.
With out a doubt it has to be pigs in blankets.
my Granny would always say they didn’t turn out how she wanted them to but they were still AMAZING
Buttery croissants that my sister-in-law makes every year…rich, flaky, buttery…..mmm…I can taste them right now
I love everything!!! Mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, veggies, turkey, ham, baked ziti, stuffing, corn bread pudding! Love it all and now that I know how to make cake pops, they will be a part of our holiday this year and for many years to come…Thanks for all the great ideas!!!! I <3 Bakerella!!! Keep up with the awesome work!
I like to eat turkey with all the trimmings. Guess I can’t get enough at Thanksgiving!
My MIL’s mashed potatoes are what I wait for each year. So buttery and yummy!
I love prime rib with horseradish cream for Christmas dinner. But it really is the mashed garlic parmesan potatoes that are my fave!
Homemade raviolis, my grandmother’s recipe. The same ravs that my Italian family has been making for generations. Although we do it alittle differently now than my grammy (God bless her, making all of that pasta with no machine), they are still every bit as delicious as the first time I had them. I could eat them everyday for the rest of my life and be happy (and fat) about it!
My favorite is sausage and egg casserole. We have this every Christmas morning.
I like dips, dips and more dips. It is really all about the snacks!
I make a cherry-apricot glazed ham, a sweet paprika corn casserole, and I might add a 3 cheese mac n cheese this year? Just to mix it up! Headed to the grocery this morning…I love the cooking, but I’d like to outsource the planning and shopping.
Love them! My favorite thing to eat on the holidays is a salmon spread that my mom and grandmother make… and I don’t even like Salmon! hahahaha…
My favorite dish would be home-made pasta, made by mom. AMAZING!!!
Tamales – we always have a tamale making party on Christmas Eve!
Our Christmas Eve dinner tradition is an overspill from my husband’s family’s tradition when he was growing up. We have ham chowder (aka cheese/corn/potato/ham chowder all rolled into one) for Christmas Eve. Super easy to make and oh so yummy and warm and filling! I’ve added my homemade rolls to the meal to round it off. :-)
We have non traditional Christmas food. My favorite right now being Crawfish Chowder!!! YUM YUM YUM!
This may sound strange, but my favorite thing to eat at Christmas is the Chex Mix my mom makes every year. Nothing’s better than homemade Chex Mix in my book, and Christmas is really the only time I have it.
My favorite thing to eat is my cousins.. oogy – gooey.. mac and cheese.. so creamy and cheesey.. bubbly brown on top in some places.. when you dip the serving spoon in… you have to have the person next to you. cut off the cheese strings to your plate .. oh.. it is so good…old fashioned. and she will not give up the recipie…
I usually like to eat a nice roast or ham. It just screams Christmas to me!
Green Jello Salad my Mom makes, oh, wait–the yummy cheese potatoes! Oh, no, wait! Pecan Pie! Sorry–can’t choose just one!!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is probably mussels and clams on Christmas eve. I’m a seafood lover!
Egg casserole on Christmas morning……. Not so much the taste, but the tradition.
i love to eat my family’s ham!!! my kids love it and they just can’t get enough of it when the holidays are here….you know what i just love EVERYTHING!!! i love food all kinds……=D !
Happy Holidays!!!!!
&
Good Food!!! <3
The decorations are gorgeous! Our family has a big dinner at noon, but around 6 we have a light meal and that is when my favorite dish is served. Baked potato soup! Yum!
Green bean casserole!
Prime rib and twice baked potatoes!
My favorite thing is green beam casserole. Classic but amazing… we add a few crushed up cheez its to the top… hehe a little elementary but still so good!!
Stuffing! It’s one of the only things I don’t groan about having to repeat from Thanksgiving.
My Mom’s cheesy hash-browns. So tasty! : )
My brother’s rosemary mashed potatoes!
I enjoy eating rice and peas… This West Indian dish has sweet coconut milk and beans… It really is the perfect pairing to any of the holiday fixings (ham, turkey, yams, greens…whatever). :)
My husband’s family always ate eggs goldenrod for Christmas breakfast, so now we do too. It was weird at first, but now I really like it.
hmmm I think my favorite holiday food would have to be glazed ham and pineapples!
My favorite thing is my mother’s coconut cake, which is a labor intensive process to make since you have to stand over the icing on the stove to cook it. And it’s four layers. But it’s delicious and reminds me of her.
The homemade candy my mom and sister make! But I don’t get to go home this year! :(
hummmmmmmmmmmm….probably my fav savory snack is buttered popcorn:)
I could have my holiday meal consist of green bean casserole and sweet potatoes and be done, lol. I attempted my first cake pops this weekend, did trees in green with non-pareils for “ornaments” and used pinky/red kraft marshmallow stars for the toppers. They were a hit! I am blown away by yours from this post, beautiful!
My favorite Christmas treat is Russian Tea Cakes. My mom made them for Christmas every year since I can remember. However, last year I tried your Red Velvet Cake Balls and they have become one of my families favorite holiday treat!
This year my mother in law is making cheese fondue, which we all love! I’m hoping that it becomes a tradition!
we just do a big table of apps, my fave is either stuffed mushrooms or spinach artichoke and cheese phyllo cups
This year, I’m trying my hand at making prime rib and all of the fixings. It’s just my husband and I, so every year we try some new and amazing hard to make meal. Last year it was a crown roast pork(recipe from WS)…so delicious.
Although I’m very much looking forward to sweets, I’m also looking forward to Shepherd’s Pie! So delicious and harty.
Also, I love nutcrackers, hope they sell them other places too. Happy Holidays!
OMG!!! I MUST get these. After your post last year, I was so inspired that I went out to all the after Christmas sales and got stuff to make my own sugar plum fairy tree. But your friend’s is sooo much better. I’ll just have to keep trying. So thanks for more inspiration!
As for food, every Christmas, my Dad makes Chourico and Peppers a Portuguese specialty and I soo look forward too it. Yummy in a little bun. One year, I waited too long on Christmas Day and we ran out. Ack! I was so bummed out that now I make sure I have some first before I get too full.
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
We always have beef stew on Christmas night…its warm and goes perfect as we get ready to open presents!!
It’s a tradition at my parents’ house that we have sausage balls for breakfast on Christmas morning. Yummy, simple and totally non-sweet!
At Christmas, and every other holiday for that matter, I always salivate over my mom’s baked corn. It’s savory, yet it carmelizes just enough to fall slightly into to sweet category. MMMMM…thank goodness there’s only a few more days till Christmas!
Chicken puffs! My mother-in-law makes them and they finish up really quick. Best show up to Christmas dinner early or they’ll be gone :) And pomegranate. I love pomegranate. Favourite winter food.
I love the nutcrackers, I don’t know how I missed them at Teatro!
Every year for Christmas Eve we have shrimp before heading off to Christmas Eve Service! And for breakfast on Christmas morning we ALWAYS have eggs, bacon and toast. But that’s after we’ve opened our “Santa” presents. It’s tradition to receive Tasty Cakes in our stockings, so we eat those while opening presents and then have a nice egg breakfast!
Baked Brie with Cranberry Preserves. Reminds me I need to do my grocery shopping.
My favorite food on Christmas is french toast! It is one of a few family traditions that has stayed alive (after all of the christmas surprises and santa madness with four kids). My dad always cooks french toast for breakfast, and it’s even turned into a “french toast challenge”, where one of my siblings challenges him a’la Iron Chef. It’s the only time of the year we ever have it, and I refuse to eat in except on Christmas. :)
Sorry, last post had a bad link, here’s a similar nutcracker on a site I found:
http://www.oktoberfesthaus.com/product/C0169/Hollywood-Cake-Cupcake-Christmas-Nutcrackers-Set-of-2.html?meta=GBASE&metacpg=C0169&utm_source=gbase&utm_medium=CPC&utm_content=&utm_campaign=C0169
Sausage balls, for some reason I really look forward to them this time of year
Strangely enough, I love to have something like beef tenderloin (or venison backstrap) and roasted root vegetables. It’s easy and is something a bit more extravagent than normal. Yum!
Hmmmm, well I guess it would have to be Cornish Game Hens. A whole lotta work for a little bird! But sooo yummy. My Grandma always made them. And now so do I!
Mine is this beef dish my dad always made. =D
non-sweet…..at Christmas! Wow that is tough. I guess I would have to say my Aunt Rose’s crescent rolls…..they are yummy!
I love breakfast with the family on Christmas morning… especially pancakes!
My mother makes an amazing hashbrown casserole like the one from Cracker Barrel that I love getting a chance to have during the holidays!!
We love broccoli rice casserole! It’s my sister-in-laws recipe and no one makes it like ‘Aunt Brenda’!!!!!
My favorite dish is dressing. Every year I try to recreate my Granny’s dressing. Some years I come closer than others. :)
On Christmas Eve my family has a tradition of eating steak with Béarnaise Sauce! My mouth waters just thinking about it!
Merry Christmas!
my favorite thing to eat on christmas is green bean casserole. we dont have it every year but since im cooking this year it most definetely was included in the menu!
My grandma’s carrot pudding drizzled with vanilla sauce. It is incredible. Thankgoodness grandma gave me the recipe.
I just LOVE photos of your friends party, I think she lives in my dreamland!
Chips and dip are my favorite holiday treat! Yep, I’m weird.
julie looks like the perfect hostess! what an eye for detail!
Cheese potato casserole!!! YUMMY!
I am swooning over this post, how could anyone bear to eat your adorable cake pops?! That party is breathtaking. My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is my grandmothers home made tamales, they are Mexican tradition and heaven on earth. Now that I live 1000 miles away from my family, I have learned to make my own every year. Still tasty, but not like abuelas :)
LOVE, love the cakes on top! So over the top, but it’s the Holidays!
Nothing can be too over the top!
My favorite non-sweet thing would have to be Honey Baked Ham.
Just looking at this post, I feel a sugar rush coming on. It’s so FANTASTIC!
My grandma always made this garlic cheese log thats rolled in paprika and pecans and served it with Sociables. We now make it in our home and I can’t get enough of it. I end up putting the leftovers on paninis with some salami or turkey and spinach. Love it!
Also love breakfast with my parents after our kids open gifts. My dad makes about 100 pancakes every Christmas morning and all the leftovers go home with my kids to pop in the toaster for the next week. =)
My favorite nonsweet thing to eat would probably be Christmas Eve meatballs!
I love Navidad!! My favorite food to eat is my grandmother’s “pasteles”. It’s a traditional spanish food made of of green bananas and meat… sooooo good! yumm-yumm!
my favorite is hash brown casserole! cheesy, straight out of the oven goodness.
I love ham and cornbread dressing!
Merry Christmas, Angie! Thank you for the opportunity.
My fav on Christmas is Chinese stuffing. Sweet sticky rice with Chinese sausage, black mushroom and water chest nut. Yum!
I’d say my favorite thing to eat is our entire Christmas Eve dinner. We do a “normal” dinner on Christmas day, but Christmas Eve my Mom does an amazing spread of appetizers that I always look forward to!
My fav are sausage pinwheels for breakfast! Fast and easy to make. Bulk sausage rolled into crescent rolls. My kids have loved these for years!
I make a spinach and artichoke dip that is to die for, sooo yummy, that and these Sauage and cheese won ton cups. Ohhh As much as Im still not feeling christmas this year, due to my hubby going back to iraq 2 days before christmas, I can’t wait to eat all the good food we make this time of year.
My favorite thing is our Christmas morning breakfast. I make sausage bites, just biscuits flattened out and spread with sausage, then rolled up, sliced and baked. So simple but a tradition for us.
We do an appetizer day… little smokies wrapped in bacon and brown sugar on top…. baked at 350 til bacon is cooked and crispy. Cheese ball and crackers… ohh…. mmm… Thinking about doing a honey baked this year too.
Cheeseball w/pineapple in it
My favorite holiday food item is a green jello creation our family makes. It has lime jello, whipping cream, walnuts, pineapple, cottage cheese, probably doesn’t sound good, but it’s wonderful!
I love a good turkey at the holidays and sweet potato casserole. This one is made with just a sprinkling of pecans on top, not the marshmallows. I adore this post, it looks like Candyland at Christmas! The white trees are perfect with the pastel candy decorations. Love it!
We have a wonderful sun dried tomato/spinach stuffed tenderloin.
My mom makes a wonderful holiday spread, but my favorite thing is probably the mashed potatoes! Mmmmm…
We buy Cornish game hens, and everybody (all 5 of us) gets to decide how they want it seasoned. I like lots of garlic and rosemary, but the kids all have different ways – teriyaki, buffalo seasoning, etc.
Christmas Wife-Saver… it’s a meal that my husband prepares the night before and all he does is pop it in the oven on x-mas morning… no dishes. :)
It’s a ham, scrambled egg, toast and cornflake casserole…. sounds strange, but it’s the most amazing casserole ever invented.
Since we have all the fixins at Thanksgiving we like to do non traditional at Christmas so they instead of cooking all day we are visiting…..we have Brunswick Stew and Barbque sandwhiches. Yummy
I love the stuffed mushrooms my mom makes every year! They are a Christmas tradition!
Very adorable….love the Nutcracker!
Love the colorful pictures. Fav food is corn pudding, yummmm
My favorite Christmas foods are thing that have become tradition in our family. Hearty Sausage casserole for breakfast and pizza for Christmas dinner. they make the day super easy and I get to spend the day with my kids instead of on the kitchen cooking.
My favorite thing to eat at christmas is my friends turkey and homemade gravy…yummy!
Every year on Christmas Eve we do a big party with all of our family and we always have ham. So then on Christmas day my husband takes the left over ham and makes scalloped potatoes and ham. I love it and usually pig out on it. I look forward to it every year.
My fave non-sweet thing to eat on Christmas is my Mom’s stuffing… but the sweets are still my fave :) I’ll be making struffoli today (i.e. Italian honey balls) and *maybe* they will last until Christmas :)
Christmas is all about sweets!! But for something non-sweet, I love my grandmother’s pierogies and breaded pork cutlets!
Honey baked ham and cheesy potatoes! Yum!
Lamb with mint jelly. :)
Christmas breakfast with my family! Nothing in particular just the feeling it brings. :)
Homemade crescent rolls and oyster stuffing. Then the sweets!
We go a bit non traditional for Christmas – we have steak. My dad grills them up – soooo good.
My fav food to eat during the holidays is home made noodles. My Grandma and Mom uses to make them, it just wouldn’t be the holiday without the noodles to remember them!
That’s a tough one! The sweets are my favourite. I’d probably have to say the glazed ham cooked in Coke or the sweet potato casserole with brown sugar topping. Funny that they both have sweet elements!
I love twice baked potatoes with steak and shrimp. It’s very non-traditional. I like the shrimp warm and dipped in garlic lemon butter. Ugghh. I’m hungry!!!
Cheese curd -weird and non-Christmasy, but my Aunt lives near a cheese making place (a cheesery? :) and they have incredible fresh cheese curd which we only get when we see her at Christmas. Squeaky yummy good!
Our Family tradition is to order Chinese Food Christmas Eve! Nobody has to work!
any kind of salty, cheesy, vegetabley casserole … broccoli, hashbrown, squash, etc … love it!
Cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
I love homemade gingerbread icecream.
Lasagne! Made with sauce that has ground beef and peas in it (peas are a Sicilian thing!).
My choice would probably be the ham and prime rib dinner my in-laws have every year!
geschnetzeltes. its a german dish that is basically a beef and mushroom mix in creamy sauce. with potatoes! so good!
Dinner would not be dinner if everything on the plate weren’t slathered in delicious gravy. I love the potatoes, lots of different veggies, and chicken (hubby’s allergic to turkey!) but everything must be bathed in gravy. So good!
cheesy broccoli and rice casserole…and can you do a giveaway where the winnner is flown to her house for her christmas party. yeah, thanks! lol
My mom’s meat pie and tourtieres. She only uses salt & pepper for spices. You would think that it’s going to be very blah but it cooks slowly and the meat is nice, tender and very tasty. Yum!!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
Sausage Balls! My sister’s cheese ball, yummy!
I think my favorite (except the desserts) is the Turkey Pie made by my boyfriend… It’s the best think I ever ate!
Pot pie! Easy peasy :) I’m making them mini this year, since I’m a glutton for punishment lol
We always have a seafood dinner at my mom’s on Christmas Eve and I love ALL of it. On Christmas we just do finger foods and I love the buffalo chicken dip that my SIL brings! :) YUMMO!!
I love to eat the desserts – too many to choose a favorite!
Beautiful!!!
Green bean casserole
My favorite is our annual fried halibut, macaroni and white cheese with french fries. crispy on the outside and yummy moist fish inside. soo goood.
Merry Christmas!
My favorite christmas dinner – the leftovers for christmas eve!
These are adorable! Nothing better than Nutcrackers and cupcakes!! Woohoo!
A yummy baked egg casserole that we have for breakfast on Christmas morning. Cozy. Merry Christmas, Bakerella!
Our favorite is to cook a whole filet of beef (4-5 lbs)…..tie with string..spread with soft butter, coarse salt, pepper, roast at 500 degrees for 25 minutes. Allow to rest 20 min. covered in foil. Barefoot Contessa recipe. THE BEST!!!! LOVE your website!
Believe it or not, I LOVE LOVE LOVE some homemade Chex Mix! I love the smell of it baking in the oven and I love eating it when it is still warm and even 3 days later when I am still picking out my favorite pieces! YUM!!!
we have yummy mexican food on christmas eve – my fav thing is tamales!!
Honey Baked Ham – yum!!!
My favorite thing to eat at the holidays? My mother-in-law’s cornbread dressing! YUMMO!
Coming from an Italian background, we always eat fish on Christmas Eve and then lasagna on Christmas day. Along with the lasagna we generally have a roast of some sort with all the sides that go along. Lots of food for a special day.
Happy Holidays to you!
For years I made a ham dinner on Christmas Eve and then 15 bean soup and sandwiches on Christmas Day. It made for a relaxing day.
My real favorite Christmas dish is our traditional strawberry waffle breakfast, but non-sweet dish would have to be the garlic mashed potatoes we always have.
I’d have to say my fave over the holidays -next to various fabulous desserts- is the abundance of appetizers offered at every gathering! The creative finger foods and hors d’œuvre selections are always what I look forward to! YUM!
I look forward to my 80 yr old mother making her famous pierogis, potato and cheese of course, they are fried in butter an onions until they are lightly crisp on the edges and then served warm with sour cream on top! HEAVEN!
My husband’s incredible mashed potatoes. They’re awesome and always asked for!
Being from the Southwest we love to have tamales for Christmas eve dinner.
I love to eat Congri at Christmas. It is rice with red beans, done Spanish style….my grandmother makes it and I love it!!!!
I love to eat tamales!!!
I love love love the soldiers and the cake pops! We have lasagna for christmas each year–must be the italian in us, lol!
We eat German food on Christmas – yum yum yum! Love my rouladen with potato balls and red cabbage. Can’t wait!
Garlic smashed potatoes for me!
My sister will attempt to make Beef Wellington this Christmas! And my favorite au gratin potatoes!
i love pain perdu on Christmas morning with my family!!!
ROASTED CHESHNUTS!!!!
Plain and simple!
Sweet potatoes are my favourite thing to eat at Christmas along with my mother in laws fish fillets. YUM
WOW, Bakerella, those cake pops are wonderful! Just love them! As for my favorite at Christmas, although I love all the sweets and cookies, I love Christmas dinner itself!
Pork roast with crispy crackling!! YUM! It’s also a tradition in Denmark to have this on Christmas eve! YAY for Friday!
I am so looking forward to my glazed spiral ham. Yum!
That party looked awesome-so much work but pays off!
although i always WANT cinnamon rolls for breakfast, going with the sausage/egg casserole is the best bet and a great non-sweet way to start the day!!!
I just love the lasagna my mom makes every year! It is so everyday yet so amazingly delicious! Listening to Christmas music while with family makes it a lot better too. Merry Christmas! :)
We enjoy a Green Chile Quiche for Christmas breakfast.
We do different things every year… This year we are having pork bbq with special sauce in it… Delish!! Can’t celebrate Christmas without this famous dessert my dad loves…. 7 Layer Bars!
cookies!! and braciola.
My mom always makes chipped beef gravy for christmas morning breakfast and i LOVE it! It’s about the only time of year that I get it. I am already counting down the days to eat my weight in it and pour it over some freash out of the oven biscuits!!! YUM!!!
My favorite, pea salad-canned peas, velveeta cubes, pineapple chunks, miracle whip. We only eat this on special occasions. Grandma always made this, so did mom, and now I do in memory of them. Just love this!
My favorite non-sweet Christmas food would have to be the breakfast casseroles that we eat at my grandma’s house on Christmas morning. There are several different varieties, and they are all delicious!
Brussel sprouts! I only eat them on Christmas day, they have to be cooked just right, and definately not soggy! With pancetta nad chestnuts! YUM!
My mom always makes her breakfast casserole (bread,eggs,sausage,cheese)
I love it cause I can remember having it on Christmas morning as a kid, too!
My favorite is sweet potatoes….made any way! YUM!!!
Favorite main dish for Christmas is smoked pork shoulder, so easy to make and so delicious! Simmer for 2 hours in water, then serve, especially with mustard. Save the water for soups. mmm.
The first time I had Christmas dinner with my boyfriend’s parents (now in-laws), I had pineapple casserole. It’s to dye for and so unhealthy…but it’s too good not to eat! :)
I love our Ham/Cheese Strata that we enjoy every Christmas morning! It smells wonderful baking as the kids open their goodies from Santa.
Merry Christmas!
I would have to save stuffing, for sure. Our Christmas dinner is a repeat of Thanksgiving and stuffing is my favorite part of the meal! ; )
My husband and I started a new tradition in our family and now serve duck instead of turkey. I love it! Mashed potatoes now come in a very close second!!!
Bakerella I love these! SO cute!!! I am a sweets girl all the way! If I had to choose something it would be the cheeseball my grammy makes! Yum.
Wild rice stuffing with lemons and pecans-to go with the traditional turkey and all of the other good stuff!
Have a great Christmas!
Homeade chex mix. Simple and fun! Can’t beat it!
I don’t think I can pick just one thing. I guess I would have to say its roast turkey with bacon. :)
I love stuffing from the Turkey. I love making it. Experimenting with different ingredients and seasonings and drizzling gravey on it…what about you???
Lori from Port Perry…who didn’t get to the Toronto book signing :-(
My favorite holiday dish has always been green bean casserole. Something about the French-fried onions, the creamy consistency, and the crisp flavor of the beans just draws me in. I never knew exactly how many variations there were until I had some of my husband’s aunt’s casserole- she added corn! Delicious!
My favorite thing to eat is Lefsa & my Grandma’s stuffing. I haven’t had the stuffing in years, but I hope to get the recipe someday soon.
We usually have some sort of beef main dish and what I have dubbed our “Christmas Potatoes,” which are really an amazing Potato Au Gratin recipe I have. They are soooo rich that you can literally have them only once a year — thus, Christmas Potatoes!
The fabulous potato salad that my best friends mom makes every year at their annual Christmas Eve party. My tummy looks forward to it every year!!!!!!!!
We go to a Filipino party every year and I can’t stop popping in lumpiang shanghai…YUM!
Sorry, I know you said not sweet, but my answer is cinnamon rolls. Every Christmas, every year since I was a little kid, we have cinnamon rolls! It’s just not Christmas without them!
For the last 50 some years I have looked forward to our egg casserole for breakfast right after opening presents. Now I get to pass that tradition on to my children and theirs.