Kristin Chenoweth, Mariah Carey and More Stars Reveal Their Favorite Holiday Foods

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Kristin Chenoweth, Mariah Carey and More Stars Reveal Their Favorite Holiday Foods

Everyone has a favorite holiday food and celebrities are no exception! Stars including Kristin Chenoweth and Kym Johnson Herjavec chatted with Us Weekly about the festive eats they’ll simply never pass up. For Chenoweth it’s all about the pumpkin rolls. When Us asked the Pushing Daisies alum about her preferred holiday dish, she revealed that she simply can’t let the jolly season go by without eating some of the gourd-infused sweet treat. On the other hand, former Dancing With the Stars proJohnson Herjavec immediately thought of her home country of Australia when Us inquired about her most beloved holiday food. The skilled dancer revealed she’s partial to something called lamingtons, which is a popular cake frequently eaten Down Under. More specifically, the confection is made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake. It is then coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The dessert is quite a “treat” according to the Sharknado: The 4th Awakens actress. [ami-related id="1669037" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/food/pictures/kylie-jenner-reese-witherspoon-more-show-off-gingerbread-houses-photos/" title="Stars Show Off Their Gingerbread Houses" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Kylie-Jenner-Reese-Witherspoon-gingerbread-houses.jpg"] Jennie Garth is yet another star with a sweet tooth. When Us spoke to the Beverly Hills 90210 alum in December 2019, she revealed that in addition to sibling on cookies and fudge throughout the holiday season, she loves to make a sugary dish called moose crunch. As the What I Like About You alum explained, the dessert is a bit of a concoction that includes “popcorn, white chocolate, Fritos and everything bad for you.” In addition to snacking on seasonal sweets, Garth loves to whip up some healthy hors d'oeuvres, such as “veggie bacon wrapped around little water chestnuts.” [jwplayer 9t5jhwHc-l3ahXupL] Speaking of stars who opt to cook their own holiday favorites, Mariah Carey revealed in an interview with GQ in December 2019 that she spends three days in the kitchen cooking every Christmas. The “We Belong Together” songstress prepares several meals on December 23, as well as on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and each feast has a set menu. Dishes served at Carey’s home cooked meals include turkey and an unnamed recipe her father passed down to her before he passed away. “People don’t believe that I cook, by the way. They think that I’m lying,” she explained at the time. “But the truth is that I do, and I actually love cooking.” Scroll down to see more holiday foods that stars can’t get enough of!

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Kristin Chenoweth, Mariah Carey and More Stars Reveal Their Favorite Holiday Foods

Everyone has a favorite holiday food and celebrities are no exception! Stars including Kristin Chenoweth and Kym Johnson Herjavec chatted with Us Weekly about the festive eats they’ll simply never pass up. For Chenoweth it’s all about the pumpkin rolls. When Us asked the Pushing Daisies alum about her preferred holiday dish, she revealed that she simply can’t let the jolly season go by without eating some of the gourd-infused sweet treat. On the other hand, former Dancing With the Stars proJohnson Herjavec immediately thought of her home country of Australia when Us inquired about her most beloved holiday food. The skilled dancer revealed she’s partial to something called lamingtons, which is a popular cake frequently eaten Down Under. More specifically, the confection is made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake. It is then coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The dessert is quite a “treat” according to the Sharknado: The 4th Awakens actress. [ami-related id="1669037" url="https://www.usmagazine.com/food/pictures/kylie-jenner-reese-witherspoon-more-show-off-gingerbread-houses-photos/" title="Stars Show Off Their Gingerbread Houses" target="" showsubt="false" thumb="false" imgsrc="https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Kylie-Jenner-Reese-Witherspoon-gingerbread-houses.jpg"] Jennie Garth is yet another star with a sweet tooth. When Us spoke to the Beverly Hills 90210 alum in December 2019, she revealed that in addition to sibling on cookies and fudge throughout the holiday season, she loves to make a sugary dish called moose crunch. As the What I Like About You alum explained, the dessert is a bit of a concoction that includes “popcorn, white chocolate, Fritos and everything bad for you.” In addition to snacking on seasonal sweets, Garth loves to whip up some healthy hors d'oeuvres, such as “veggie bacon wrapped around little water chestnuts.” [jwplayer 9t5jhwHc-l3ahXupL] Speaking of stars who opt to cook their own holiday favorites, Mariah Carey revealed in an interview with GQ in December 2019 that she spends three days in the kitchen cooking every Christmas. The “We Belong Together” songstress prepares several meals on December 23, as well as on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and each feast has a set menu. Dishes served at Carey’s home cooked meals include turkey and an unnamed recipe her father passed down to her before he passed away. “People don’t believe that I cook, by the way. They think that I’m lying,” she explained at the time. “But the truth is that I do, and I actually love cooking.” Scroll down to see more holiday foods that stars can’t get enough of!

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Kristin Chenoweth

The Glee alum told Us Weekly exclusively at A Celebration of Cole Porter in New York City in December 2019 that her favorite holiday food is “pumpkin rolls.”

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Jennie Garth

The Beverly Hills 90210 alum is partial to some tasty hors d'oeuvres once the holidays come around. “We do veggie bacon wrapped around little water chestnuts … it’s very good,” she told Us exclusively in December 2019. The actress also has a sweet tooth, and loves cookies, fudge and moose crunch, which she describes as “a concoction of popcorn, white chocolate, Fritos and everything bad for you.”

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Jane Seymour

“Brussels sprouts, Brussels sprouts, Brussels sprouts. I like Brussels sprouts a lot,” the Kominsky Method actress told Us exclusively at the American Ballet Theatre’s Annual Holiday Benefit held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in December 2019.

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Dax Shepard

The Parenthood alum has a strong familial connection to his favorite holiday food. “My mother makes these meatballs for me every Christmas and around December 1, I start thinking about them hourly,” he told She Knows in December 2017.

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Kym Johnson Herjavec

The former Dancing With the Stars pro’s favorite holiday food hails from her native Australia. The dish, called lamingtons, is “like a chocolate coconut treat,” according to the star, who chatted with Us at the American Ballet Theatre’s Annual Holiday Benefit in December 2019. “My mom makes those and she makes a pavlova which is a lemon meringue, it’s another Australian dish,” she added. “In Australia when I would celebrate Christmas it’s the summer, so we’re used to having, like, shrimp on the barbie. We’d have seafood.”

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Mariah Carey

The “All I Want for Christmas Is You” singer spends three days in the kitchen cooking multiple Christmas feasts. Her preferred dishes include turkey and an unnamed recipe her father passed down to her before he passed away. The Grammy winner’s No. 1 secret ingredient? “Love, darling. Love,” she told GQ in December 2019. “You gotta cook with love. If you don’t cook with love, it’s not going to taste good.

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Elijah Wood

“It’s a tossup between green bean casserole and a corn casserole that I make,” the Lord of the Rings star told Parade in December 2015 when asked to name his go-to holiday dish. “They are my mom’s dishes. In the green bean casserole I add green beans, French’s fried onions and cream of mushroom soup.”

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Nigel Lythgoe

Though turkey is typically thought of as a Thanksgiving staple, the So You Think You Can Dance judge prefers to eat it on December 25. “The only time I eat Turkey is at Christmas, but I like all the trimmings,” he told Us exclusively at the American Ballet Theatre’s Annual Holiday Benefit in December 2019. “I like the stuffing, the cranberries, the roast potatoes.”

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Jessie J

“Chocolate and chili crisps are an amazing snack and holiday food — really hearty,” the “Price Tag” songstress dished to Seventeen in December 2014. “When you're on the road, people just ask, ‘Do you want a salad?’ and I'm like, "No, I want rice and chilies!”

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Brittany Snow

The Pitch Perfect actress reaches for the starch every holiday season and told She Knows in December 2017 that her go-to holiday dish is “sweet potatoes or yams and sweet potato mash.” Added the star: “It’s my favorite because I think its a vegetable, so that’s why I eat a lot of it even though it’s candy and syrup and maple and there’s marshmallows on top.”

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Lesley Ann Warren

The In Plain Sight alum told Us exclusively at the American Ballet Theatre’s Annual Holiday Benefit in December 2019 that she’s “so not a food person,” but “anything that’s chocolate” is fair game no matter what time of year it is. “I’m there for [it],” she added.

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Jennifer Esposito

“I make a sweet potato graham cracker crust pie kind of thing,” the NCIS alum told Parade in December 2015. “Everybody loves it.”