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 grandmother’s homemade minestrone soup…mmm! She has been making this Christmas Eve tradition since my mom was little. And no matter how hard we try, none of us can seem to make it the same delicious way she does :)
My favorite thing to eat (non sweet) is broccoli and rice casserole. I love it! I don’t know why we only make it for the holidays (Christmas and Thanksgiving) because it is so yummy all year long!
i really love lechon(roast pig)!!!! yum!
Sugar cookies!
Every year on Christmas eve we have a huge dinner with Prime Rib and Crab Legs but my favorite thing to eat are the chile rellenos.
I always look forward to the Beef Tenderloin w/ shallot sauce. Yummy! :)
Prime rib or turkey, can’t decide which!
We are ham lovin peeps here. Love your site!!
My favorite Christmas dish is… my aunt, Kathy’s, broccoli, cheese, and rice! I never had anything that tasted and reminded of my childhood like this dish! I can’t wait to eat it in a few days!
I love corn casserole. The sweet corn goodness, mixed with good cornbread, and sour cream. Topped with a thick layer of sharp cheddar cheese. The only time we make it is on holidays because it is deadly yummy!!!!
Just ONE thing..? Oh ok…
Well I have to say hunny and gingerglazed ribs. Or a special swedish dish, called Janssons temptation. Its d-licious.
My mother always made an incredible egg casserole for Christmas morning… delicious.
My great aunt makes an amazing white Christmas pie! I look forward to eating it every year!
Prime rib and my mom’s rice pilaf (with lots of mushrooms). Yum!
My husband’s macaroni and cheese is so yummy! I also love cornbread stuffing..
AMAZING? Both Julie’s decorations and your cake pops!!
I can’t choose between turkey with cranberry sauce and shepherd’s pie. My family doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, so we have our turkey on Christmas, and I look forward to it every year :D But I also love shepherd’s pie… (I just found out it’s not really a Christmas dish…) Aaaaah I can’t choose!!!
Mmmm hash brown casserole!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is my mom’s home-made cornbread stuffing. It’s absolutely delish & we only get it around the holidays, yum!
Cutest little guys, ever! Great cake pops, Bakerella!!
My favorite food at Christmas is mashed potatoes. I know they’re pretty plain, but they’re definitely my favorite!
I am looking forward to a nice turkey dinner with stuffing and mashed potatos smothered in gravy. Maybe I’ll throw a green veggie on my plate but only of there is room!
Love your blog!
For Christmas dinner this year, we will be having a guinness stew w/mashed potatoes
I love green bean casserole. I even make it with fat free cream of mushroom to lower the calories. It frees up your calorie intake for sweets later in the evening. ;)
A late morning breakfast with bacon, eggs, and hot homemade biscuits.
My favorite is always the mashed potatoes!
Sushi
I love stuffing sandwiches made with dinner rolls and stuffing from the turkey…………can’t wait!
I love to make honey butter to have with dinner rolls for Christmas dinner.
Hmmm…what a hard decision…I would have to say my sister-in-law’s homemade rolls, right out of the oven. They don’t need jam nor butter, just pull of a tantalizing piece and pop it in your mouth-pure delight!
I love to have scalloped sweet potatoes……they are amazing!!!!!!
My family always does brunch on christmas morning with mimosas and a yummy breakfast casserole! The ingredients are always different…but as long as it has sausage, eggs, and cheese I am happy!
Ham, green bean bake, and mashed potatoes with cheese and bacon!
Christmas ham! My Grandma makes the most wonderful ham every year, and I eat way too much of it every year! : )
I can’t even imagine how much time you had to put into those nutcracker cake pops! I just made some Hello Kitty ones for a friend’s birthday and those took long enough! Way to go!
Thanks for the chance to win! Merry Christmas! : )
WOW so many comments. What a cool upside down tree! My favorite non sweet thing at Christmas is my Sausage meat stuffing! Reading everyone elses posts I really can’t wait for Christmas dinner now!
Homemade Pierogi…filled with cheese and lightly fried….yum! I can hardly wait for Christmas Eve now!
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Awesome! I’d love to do up my house like that!
My family makes Filipino food for Christmas along with a turkey and the traditional American food. I love everything but most of all, I look forward to lumpia. yum.
My mom’s homemade dinner rolls – yum! Plus she always makes extras for leftover turkey sandwiches – equally yum!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is ” Puerto Rican Pasteles
” …Pasteles are Puerto Rican special occasion food. The whole family usually gets together assembly-line-style to make large numbers of these starchy parcels and get them ready for the boiling pot. No Boricuan Christmas is complete without pasteles. A side of Puerto Rican Rice and Roast Pork complete our holiday dinner! OMG I’m getting hungry! Merry Christmas Everybody!
Cookies!!
My favorite is the country ham my grandfather makes every christmas morning.
Butternut squash soup appetizer (with a swirl of heavy cream) and homemade breadsticks!
Dessert!
My mother’s pork rolls.
I love these Soldiers!!!!!! My son would have a fit over them. He LOVES anything Christmas, but toy soldiers and nutcrackers are his FAV!!!!!
My favorite food to eat on Christmas is my dad’s homeade mac and cheese. He passed away when I was 15 and I make his recipe every year in Honor of Him. So, not only is it super yummy, it is very special also!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MAY WE ALL REMEMBER THE MOST SPECIAL GIFT OF ALL……JESUS!!!!
My family and I all look forward to what has become our standard Christmas meal; a honey roasted lamb salad. We’re all over big, rich dishes and tons of sugar by then!
Tamales!!
On Christmas morning my mom makes homemade bran muffins. I know that doesn’t sound very good but they are delicious!!!
Everything with Champagne! On Christmas Eve, we have a Cioppino with Champagne. Christmas morning is French Toast Bread Pudding with Mimosas. And on Christmas dinner we start off with a salad of butter lettuce, pomegranate seeds and citrus with a champagne vinaigrette. And of course there is always plenty of Champagne to drink.
Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes… a family fav! I have been making them for 32 years now! :)
I love Prime Rib or a great tenderloin. What make it special is this awesome Gorgonzola sauce from the Barefoot Contessa. It is rich and yummy and takes a while to make, but it is fabulous.
My favorite non-sweet item to eat at Christmas is my mom’s cornbread dressing.
It’s a tradition to melt cheddar cheese (or I’ve done dill havarti cheese, too) on smoked oysters (on Triscuits or tortilla chips). They are so yummy.
OH MY WORD!!! I want to go play there!!! Sooo pretty and everything looks DELISH!!
Hmm…after sweets, my favorite thing to eat would be my fried turkey. Crispy on the outside and nice and juicy and tender on the inside. =) Yummo I can’t wait…
Melynda
My favorite thing to eat has to be the holiday white chocolate mix I make….it is yummy and I only make it a Christmas time!!
We do brunch on Christmas so my favorite thing to eat is egg casserole!
My all time must have favorite food @ christmas is my italian pasta salad and tomato and basil rolls topped with mot. cheese. Man, I can’t wait until Christmas day my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
I love Christmas ham….By the time Christmas comes around I can’t eat another sweet. Plain…salty, country ham…..mmmmm…..
I love to eat sausage breakfast casserole on Christmas morning.
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is Yorkshire Pudding, I haven’t had it in years; it reminds me of my childhood and my Mom’s amazing baking!
I LOVE twice baked potato casserole:) It is baked potatoes minus the skins (which you can then make potato skins with:) mixed with sour cream, cheese chunks & celery- yummy, warm, smooth & crunchy!!
My favorite Christmas dish is the apple pie that I make for dessert every year… that plus all the other baked goodies that we receive as gifts! My best friend makes these amazing “snowball cookies” that I dream about every year…
My mom’s ham with the ginger ale glaze. Only 5 more days!
My mother is mexican, and her and my grandmother make enchiladas and tamales this time of year. It is my absolute favorite food!!!
We always have prime rib and it’s so good!
We are having steak and ribs this year. Yum!
Roast beast as my family insists on calling it. Nothing beats a gorgeous prime rib with au jus!
my favourite is shredded brussels sprouts (made with bacon, onion, and pine nuts). de-lish!
Raclette.
We had raclette every Silvester (not Christmas) when I was a child, but like 8 years ago (I’m 20) this tradition broke up suddenly. My mother said it’s too difficult to organize (she’s a wonderful cook, but raclette is different, you know) and we wouldn’t have as many guests as we had in the past, so… we ate other things.
When I asked her what we will have for dinner this Christmas, her answer filled my heart with joy: raclette. I will be eating raclette again, after so many years – and I won’t even have to wait until Silvester! NO! I get it a week earlier, now isn’t THAT a deal?
Prime Rib is the best for Christmas day dinner. My husband does the honors, bless him, but I make the Yorkshire pudding. We also traditionally have perogis (I don’t think I spelled that right) an eastern European dumpling. Yum
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is ham w/pineapple and pink gravy made with the drippins! YUM!
Anything my Mimi makes!
soup! I love love love soups this time of year. Carrot, Tomato, Corn Chowder, Chili. . . give me some crusty bread and I’m happy!
I’m Norwegian so I yearn for lefse.
It looks like a tortilla, but it’s made from mashed potatoes and you put butter and sugar on it, roll it up and eat. Perfect!
My family loves to wake up early on Christmas day, all help on making breakfast. We go all out…..bacon, eggs, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, toast…..anything and everything breakfast!
We love shrimp at Christmas! Happy Holidays!
Two favorites – mashed potatoes and cocktail shrimp!
Here’s my problem. I love it all. But if I have to choose, probably would be the fancy veggies, brocolli casserole, praline topped yams, green bean casserole.
I love cornbread dressing & since I didn’t get any at Thanksgiving I think I will def make some for Christmas…
We make tamales and salsa. But my most favorite is good ol’ mashed potatoes and gravy, yum.
Merry Christmas and have an Amazing New Year!!!
I love ham! But am looking forward to the stuffed mushrooms I am bringing as an appetizer
For Christmas we do prime rib and we also have candied carrots. Those are the 2 things to eat that I totally look forward to!!
We always have ham on Christmas. I know a lot of people say ham is for Easter and turkey is for Christmas, but I’m kinda done on turkey after Thanksgiving so I appreciate the change :)
Prime Rib! Although I am looking forward to having Organic Bacon for breakfast (until recently I haven’t been able to eat any pork products & many other foods because of the additives, tenderizers and preservatives in the meat)
I love beer cheese (it’s a cheese ball). My co-worker makes it every year (it’s our way of having a drink at the company party :p). With pretzels it makes a nice salty snack to counter the sweets.
Soup in bread bowls! Preferably a cream soup with sourdough bread, but I’m not really too picky…
what a spectacular party! I’m oozing jealousness over here…
clam chowder. It’s a Christmas tradition at my mom’s.
Hawaiian bread pudding topped w/ apples and prime rib roast w/horseradish are my family favorites. So onolicious!
We have brunch Christmas morning and it is so much fun. Just plain biscuits are my favorite!
all of my favorite things to eat are sweet…. my parents host christmas dinner every year, and my moms sweet potato casserole has become one of my favorite things.
Stuffed Mushrooms!!!! It is a Christmas tradition along with the turkey, sweet potatoes, fresh baked rolls, green beans and….. the list just does not stop. We are a family of over 150 when you count, spouses, children and grandchildren.
Happy Holidays to you! and thank you for your creativeness.
Christmas brocolli salad
Broccolli
Craisins
walnuts
red onion
bacon
Sauce
mayo
red wine vinegar
sugar
Meatballs, of course, as well as ham & asparagus with melted brie on crostini. YUM!! For the main course traditional stuffed pork roast with twice baked potatoes!! Thanks for sharing the beautiful decorations and cake pops! It is like a visit to the North Pole!
Fresh Cranberry Salad. This is a congealed salad that includes chopped (finely) cranberries, pineapple, pecans, unflavored gelatin, sugar and pineapple juice! Could eat my weight in it!
Honey ham! (does that count as sweet?)
We always make a bunch of snack foods on Christmas, and everyone’s favorite is a sweet and sour sausage dish that cooks all day in the crock pot. It’s just delicious!
My favorite has to be homemade mac n cheese…or my mom’s country dressing…or…oh my, everything! With family around it just makes everything taste fantastic!
Green bean casserole… yum!!!
My favorite food to eat on Christmas would be my Grandma’s homemade tamales. And I get to have some this year! :D
We love our Christmas morning tradition. First we all open our stockings, then we sit down to Christmas breakfast before digging in to the presents. We always have Creamy Scrambled Eggs from Marlene Sorosky which my kids renamed Screamy Eggs when they were young. Soft scrambled eggs with cream cheese and chives mixed in – delicious!! They are served with thick-sliced applewood-smoked bacon. There are other goodies on the table every year but it wouldn’t be Christmas morning without our Screamy Eggs!
Merry Christmas Bakerella and thank you for sharing with us all year long.
Mashed potatoes. Never fails.
Sweet Potatoes with marshmellows!!!
Prime Rib! Starting making it a few years ago and we all love it.
Ham! I like ham soooooooooooo much better than Thanksgiving’s turkey!
My favorite dish was my grandma’s scrambled eggs. We would always celebrate in the AM on Christmas day and have a HUGE breakfast. She would always make hers extremely fluffy with milk and whisking the eggs together before cooking.
My mother in law’s potato casserole is what I am in charge of. Almost better than the sweets! ;)
Leek Mac & Cheese, technically we make this Christmas Eve, but Yum!
Happy Holidays!
I was introduced to my new favorite Christmas food this year. My best girl friend’s family makes these cheesy, delicious Christams potatoes that are so scrumptious! Basically hash browns with sour cream and cheese and tons of other “healthy” ingredients :) you simply can not eat your fill. Merry Christmas!
Ham!!!
Wow, what a great looking party, how whimsical! I know it’s weird, but my most anticipated dish is a brussel sprout gratin that I make. SO good, and everyone eats their veggies!
Happy Holidays!
Christmas food for our family starts with tradition. Christmas eve is Oyster Stew and Christmas morning is sticky buns and Cheese and Sausage Casserole. I love your website and have bought your book and gotten several of my friends to buy it too. Now we are having a cake pops day to try all of our favorites from your book. Yeah for us!
Two things I love for Christmas: Oysters (either in stew or scalloped) and Prime Rib, medium rare. Serve the prime rib with roasted vegies and Grandma’s mashed potatoes.
Roast beef and yorkshire pudding! Yum and more yum.
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is… an enchilada! Mexican food is a tradition for us ever since my grandmother got tired of baking a ham! :)
I love hashbrown casserole – totally over the top in calories and fat, but we only have it this time of year. Shredded potatoes and onions baked in a sauce of sour cream, cream of chicken soup and cheddar cheese.
My favorite non sweet to eat at Christmas is:
Turkey – lots of white meat, lightly salted, with cranberry sauce… and a little gravy on the side too!
my favorite thing to eat at christmas is homemade soft dinner rolls. and lots of them!
We always have traditional fare. Mashed potatoes and dressing are my favorites.
I love having chicken pot pie!
My family fore-goes the traditional big southern Christmas dinner since we go all out for Thanksgiving. We just do sandwiches and small sides and then dessert. But my “must-have” is my aunt’s home-made Chicken Salad. It’s not Christmas without it!
Being from the southwest, I’d have to say tamales – pork with red chile and chicken with green chile. So delicious!!!
Mmm I love Christmas turkey with gravy!!
My mom makes some amazing green bean casserole. She makes it cheesey and crunchy on top, love it!
I love my mom’s homemade fudge!
Shrimp :) Have to have 7 kinds of fish on christmas eve in my family :)
We always have the traditional Southern menu like turkey, ham, corn casserole, mashed potatoes with stuffing, of course.
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is dressing! Love, Love, Love it…
My super sweet sister -Tempie- missed out on Julie’s fabulous party because we came to visit. I would love to win these precious cup cake men for her as an “I’m sorry you missed out on a great party” surprise…
Of course, we considered crashing because we wanted to see Julie’s decorations :)
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Every Christmas Eve my friend make the best Prime Rib. I’m so lucky to get to go home with some leftovers, too.
My favourite christmas food (non-sweet) is stuffing! My nana’s stuffing is simply divine, I could just eat a whole plate, and nothing else, and be happy!
Cuban food!
Roasted pig, black beans, garlic bread, and of course – Wine!
Merry Christmas
xoxoxoxox
We travel on Christmas Day and I actually look forward to it – it’s the only time all year we do fast food and once a year a Roy Rogers burger and fries is so delicious!! (paired with the anticipation of seeing my sister and having our kids hang out!!) – sad but true! (REALLY love those nutcrackers!!!)
I love sweets but we always have sausage balls on Christmas morning.
I absolutely must have my Grandma’s nutmeg mashed potatoes for the Holidays. They are incredible, and I only recently realizes I could in fact make this dish myself haha. So now my friends are demanding it for every holiday party as well. Grandma would be so proud!
I love cheesy bacon green bean casserole and sourdough stuffing YUMMM I can wait 5 more days!!!!!
Wow this is just wonderfull.
As far as favorite food…love stuffing because we only have it this time of year…and we are stuffed when the meal is over too.
Have a wonderful Christmas and new year…hopefully next year is as exciting as 2010 has been for you however I don’t know what other wonderfully things could possibly happen as you have had a terrific year!
Congrats to you! Enjoy!
We like to get a little rebellious at christmas time… Rather than making another thanksgiving-esque meal, we like to have a big BBQ supper. Maybe it’s a southern thing, but I look forward to that brisket every year!
We’re having good old fashioned pot roast and veggies. Mmmm. Yummy. Hope I win, my son has started collecting Nutcrackers.
Ham, of course!
We always have my husbands homemade onion dip and his fudge. I love them because he makes them!
My all time favorite HANDS DOWN favorite thing to eat on Christmas is papa la huancaina. You might be asking yourself, “What is that?”
It’s a Peruvian Dish…a very good one! The recipe is so simple but oooooh so good! So basically its Boiled potatoes cut in half, you them on a platter and you put this creamy la huancaina sauce on top. Then you put boiled eggs for decor, cut in half and with black Peruvian olives. Yummmmm! My dad makes it every year. Its a great dish to eat as a side of the meal or appetizer or for a snack!!! LOL
Definitely the turkey! Yum!
Homemade mashed potatoes! It’s the perfect warm/filling/comfort food!
mmmm…homemade mashed potatoes!!!
Favorite thing to eat on Christmas Day is my mom’s pozole! Yummy! BTW, thanks for inspiring us with your creativity.
We’re having a mini Thanksgiving Part II for Christmas and I can’t wait for the mashed potatoes with gravy!
We always eat ourselves into a Tex-Mex coma on Christmas Eve. Lots of tamales, chips and salsa, rice and beans, queso and guacamole. I’m salivating as we speak. :)
My favorite thing to eat is my mom’s tamales. A bit non-traditional but I look forward to them all year long as she says they’re too time consuming to make more than once a year
Homemade dinner rolls
about 6 years ago, we started making french onion soup every christmas eve as part of our dinner- so delicious (except it’s strange to be opening gifts while the house still smells like onions on christmas morning)
One year we decided to go non-traditional and we had Mexican food for christmas dinner.
Every holiday, my favorite side is mashed potatoes…yum!
Ok, first of all, where did your friend find the large snowman heads on the new tree this year? Actually, where does she find most of her decorations? Just a collection from over the years?
My favorite food…homemade mashed potatoes!
My son loves nutcrackers!
with just being the 2 of us we love having steak and lobster.
I think my favorite non-sweet thing to eat is probably my mom’s homemade dressing. :) It’s so good, you have to eat it for Thanksgiving AND Christmas. :)
Prime Rib! A few years ago I started making this for my family and we love it!
This year i will be making eggnog french toast and bacon for Christmas breakfast…but i also love that cornbread dressing!
My favorite is the green bean casserole! :-)
I love the Turkey with dressing. I’m from the South, so not “stuffing”, cornbread dressing. And don’t forget the cranberry sauce. I love to make homemade with a little
orange zest. FYI-your Red Velvet Cake balls are such a hit
with my family and friends. EVERYONE loves them-especially ME!!! Thanks for the chance to win.
Absolutly everything!!! Potatoes, Mac and cheese, tamales, chillie beans yummy can’t wait for Xmas!
twice baked potatoes
It is so hard to pick one thing but this year I’ll go with the yummy beef roast slow cooked all day.
I always make sausage balls Christmas morning, its the perfect way to start the holiday and my favorite thing to eat!
Of my 4 kids, I have two children with SPD (sensory perception disorder)–one with autism, so meals can be tricky. We’ve actually started doing a small buffet with finger foods. I’ll do bite size bacon wrapped filets, garlic or cheese bread, a veggie tray, tamalies, fruit kabobs, shrimp, mini chicken sandwiches (with the fixin’s on the side), puff pastries, dips and chips, potatoe bites, and whatever else I can think of that might be fun to try. Everyone finds something, new foods are tried, no major food battles, no fighting formality. It works wonderful for us!
It’s gotta be the mashed potatoes!!
Our Christmas tradition is to have crab for dinner. It’s a fun & messy meal – we sit around the table cracking & chatting. Aside from the fantastic & yummy interactive meal, the best part is using the remaining crab meat for crab cakes benedict for breakfast on the 26th!!
My mom’s homemade rolls- so good!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas is blue cheese crisps. A Southern Living classic recipe.
My favorite dish for Christmas is cheese, carrot and leek turnovers..perfect blend of sweet and salty … these turnovers are appetizers and they go really fast !!!
Merry Christmas and thanks for sharing your pictures, adventures and recipes…. :)
Basic ham and potatoes for me!! :)
crab soup! yummy!
My Aunt Val’s Holiday Buffet…. amazing
I love to eat lasagna made with cottage cheese instead of ricotta, yum!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is probably warm cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. I think the whole experience of eating them while watching my kids open presents really makes it that much yummier!
I love my sister’s homemade cookies. Susan
non sweet? Chili for sure! My dad makes it every christmas eve!
My favorite holiday food is, knephle, a homemade German dough dish that is baked until golden brown & crispy, in a butter and sautéed onion mixture, served alone or smothered w/gravy. It’s a family tradition!
We always have our big dinner with family on Christmas Eve and prime rib is always served as the main dish….yummy!
Loaded mashed potatoes!
Macaroni and cheese! Also, this breakfast casserole my aunt makes. Yum!
I love all of the snacks. I don’t need a meal, just the spiced nuts, appetizer meatballs, cheese and sausage tray, crudite, warm dips . . .
Such beautiful decorations!!
I love a good Christmas Ham on Christmas Day. And this year I plan to make Pretzel Salad…mmmmm.
I love to eat sausage & egg casserole on Christmas Eve. It’s a tradition and my favorite part of the holiday eating! =]
I know this is so basic, but after Thanksgiving and turkey I get so excited to have ham for Christmas!
Fennel! Can’t have Christmas without it!
I know it’s not strictly holiday, but I was at two gatherings this week with a warm artichoke-spinach dip. YUM! Another favorite that is more common around the holidays: home-made tamales.
i love cornbread stuffing … my granny’s recipe of course, that goes by ‘look’ instead of a recipe!!:-) Merry Christmas all!!
Smoked turkey! I also love dressing and sweet potato casserole. Ooops, sweet potato casserole is sweet! ;)
O MY CUPCAKES!!! A real upside down decorated Christmas tree, has always been a dream of mine.
My daughter and I miss her dad, he died two years ago, so we fix his faves.
Roasted Prime Rib, with very hot horseradish. He loved the cranberries whole, and his fave veggie, green bean casserole, if that is a veggie..
We miss him so, he always made our holidays so very special, and we felt like beautiful girls because he pampered us so much. To James T. Bingham, we miss you so.
Blessings to all, and to all…..fill in the blanks..redraven.
We tend to have the traditional mashed potatoes and ham, etc. but the best part of our Christmas is our appetizer: celery sticks. Not JUST celery sticks, but celery sticks filled with cream cheese and green olives! It sounds disgusting but there is no food that can make angels sing as can those celery sticks.
Our mashed potatoes also deserve a shout-out for their special ingredient: an entire stick of butter! Mmm!
I love making and eating tamales for the holidays! :)
most times of year i can’t stand ham in any form. hate it. but on christmas, my mom makes this ham that i just can’t stop eating. pinnapple, cloves, pinnapple juice mixed with mustard powder and her secret ingredient. she injects it with this mix and its pretty much the best thing i’ve eatten on the holidays. :)
bloody marys of course!
My favorite thing to eat at Christmas is definitely the turkey with all the trimmings! We did prime rib for Thanksgiving, so it will be my first turkey this year and I can’t wait!
absolutely amazing, I know what my theme will be next christmas!
My favorite non sweet thing is chicken broccoli ring… Chicken, cream of mushroom soup, cheese, onion, red and green peppers all rolled up in a croissant…
I love to eat stuffing, my moms shrimp dip on christmas eve, pies oh yes lots of pies. Coconut, and chocolate cream and Tourtiere which is Canadian Meat pie! Green Bean casserole, and appetizers on christmas eve. I love those nutcrackers they are gorgeous!
Honey Glazed Ham!
Can I please live here?? The cupcake decorations are perfect!
Yorkshire pudding
What a FUN giveaway!!! My favorite thing (a tradition from childhood that I’ve continued with my little family) is to make german pancakes after opening presents. I love how fluffy and big they are right out of the oven! We top it with strawberries and whipped cream. Of course eggs, hash browns, and sausage accompany it. Oh, and smoothies, too! :) Merry Christmas!
I’ll be honest, my favorite thing to eat during the holidays is… EveryTHING!
anything! i just love all the holiday faves my mom always has out. and now that we splitting times between my boyfriends family and mine – i love all the new goodies that they have each holiday!
Ahhhhh! My husband and I collect nutcrackers and I love to bake! I need these! :) My favorite non-sweet food to have on Christmas is green bean casserole. I know it’s a bit more Thanksgivingy (is that a word), but I love it none the less!