The Most Popular Christmas Dishes The #1 pick is roast potatoes, with a win percentage of 76%. Mashed potatoes came in second (75%), and turkey was third (73%)—the only protein in the top five.

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Traditional Christmas dinner features turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and vegetables. Other types of poultry, roast beef, or ham are also used. For dessert, pumpkin or apple pie, raisin pudding, Christmas pudding, or fruitcake are staples.

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• Gingerbread house.
• Sugar plums.
• Rugelach.
• Poppy seed rolls.
• Peppermint bark.
• Yule log.
• Gingersnaps.
• Chess pie.

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• Classy Cheese Balls. You only *think* cheese balls are tacky.
• Roasted Veggie Chips.
• Baked Chicken and Ricotta Meatballs.
• Cranberry-Brie Pie Crust Bites.
• Easy Skillet Mushroom and Gouda Fondue.
• Cheesy Bacon Holiday Crack.
• Holiday Cheese Board.
• Deviled Eggs 3 Ways.

Christmas cookies. Sweet bread filled with fruits like raisins and raspberries. Lechona (rice baked inside a pig, with peas, the meat of the pig and other delicacies) Tamales.

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• Candy Canes.
• Cinnamon.
• Cranberry Sauce.
• Eggnog.
• Gingerbread.
• Pumpkin Pie.
• Roasted Chestnuts.

Winter flavors include tickled pink, cocoa, crème sweet, rum, ginger and apple spice butter rum. Spring flavors are lady marmalade, bloody mary, gin and tonic, and Frenchy cocktail. Summer flavors are pineapple herbal mint, lava flow, peach sangria and pineapple lime.

Butterscotch is a delicious caramel-like blend of butter and brown sugar that gives holiday desserts an unparalleled rich, sweet flavor that decadently melts in your mouth.

Since butterscotch is a warm flavor that pairs well with other fall flavors (cinnamon, clove, vanilla, dark rum, apples and waffles) you can use any flavor combo (including a maple bacon flavor) to taper off the sweetness of butterscotch tones.