What Your Favorite Celebs Are Eating This Holiday Season
Stars, they overdo it on sweets just like us!
You might want to steal some of their ideas when it comes to planning your own dinner menu.
Katy Perry
Every year, Perry dreams of a white (sand beach) Christmas, spending her holidays with family on vacation. "We usually go on vacation, and we spend most of our time eating and drinking a lot," she told Independent, adding that the family always starts the day with bellinis, then cooks and plays board games together.
Lauren Conrad
Conrad's more of a pie baker than a cake-maker, but she's all about decorating sweets this holiday season. On her website, the fashion designer/author shared two ways of decorating a chocolate cake for Christmas: One uses powdered sugar and a stencil to create a snowflake pattern, the other is the ultra-festive "chocolate explosion" shown here. We'll take one of each, thanks.
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake
Cranberry sauce haters, Biel has the perfect alternative for you: her grandmother's cranberry ice. "We make it every holiday," she told Life & Style. "It is in place of cranberry sauce, sort of like a cranberry sorbet. It is so delicious."
Taylor Swift
It's no secret Swift loves to bake, bake, bake, bake, bake, and the holiday season is no exception. She's shared her chai tea eggnog cookie recipe on Tumblr, and is known for baking all kinds of sweets, like apple pie, chocolate chip cookies and one of her personal favorites, dark chocolate peppermint cookies.
Reese Witherspoon
The actress and Draper James founder's holidays are filled with traditions: Every year, Witherspoon busts out the advent calendars and decorates gingerbread houses with her three kids, and in the days leading up to Christmas, their oven works overtime. Her daughter, Ava, bakes "tons of cookies," while her son Tennessee helps her make waffles. On Christmas Day, Witherspoon serves a baked ham.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Gellar's known for baking up a storm—she runs her own organic cookie and brownie company, after all—and making moms everywhere envious with her strong Elf on the Shelf game.
Joey McIntyre
We can only hope "Funky Funky Christmas" was blasting in the background, as McIntyre sipped red wine out of a New Kids on the Block-etched glass and contemplated the true meaning of the season.
Candace Cameron Bure
Instead of immediately opening presents on Christmas day, Cameron Bure and her family head straight to a nearby homeless shelter, where they make breakfast for everyone there. "Then, we sit down and eat with them, and hear their stories, and it's such an amazing way to celebrate the true gift of Christmas and giving back," she explained. "It really sets the tone for our family for the day."
Mario Lopez
Christmas dinner at the Lopez household is one serious feast—the family serves two hams, one turkey, Spanish rice, mashed potatoes and his grandmother's chili pork tamales. His relatives make about 200 tamales every holiday season, which they give out to around 60 friends and relatives. "I don't help with making them," he told People. "But I definitely help with the eating!"
Holly Madison
Madison loves baking pies and cakes for the holidays, and right around this time of year, she'll allow herself her annual Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino. "One diet tip I read is that when you splurge, it's got to be based on something concrete, like a birthday or another special occasion," Madison told us last year. 'Tis the season!
Sofia Vergara
Vergara has an entire table devoted to sweets at her Christmas party, which she's deemed her "favorite part" of the holiday. Puff pastries, cookies, pies and a festive, red- and white-striped cake—um, can we come over this year?
Joanna Gaines
The Fixer Upper star understands that in a season where you're constantly on the go, something's gotta give. If that means skipping the homemade dinner and eating frozen pizza by the Christmas tree, so be it.
Nicki Minaj
When she's not tearing up the charts (she has the second-most Billboard Hot 100 hits out of all female artists), Minaj is keeping tabs on which stores are stocking her Myx Moscato and Sangria in full supply for the holiday season. Apparently, the Valley Stream, NY, Walmart knows what's up.
Rachel Bilson
The former O.C. star is all about decorating sugar cookies, baking her first batch of the season the first week of December.
Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas
There's no shortage of food in the Jonas household. Every year, the family serves tamales in the morning, followed by ham and lasagna at dinner, with cookies and pies for dessert. Oh, and if anyone's feeling peckish in between, the brothers make cheese and olive trays. More on that here.
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