Christmas is over for 2014 but it's never too late to upload pretty pictures from December, the most festive month of the year! For a Christmas lunch I hosted, I rocked these two edible Christmas trees, each inspired by TastyKitchen's pin on Pinterest and one of my favourite YouTube channel, Ochikeron. 

On the left, is 'Christmas Tree Cupcake' and for this I baked green portion of Duncan Hines Holiday Velvets layer cake to get 12 cupcakes and used green cupcake icing with leaf nozzle to decorate. At first I had to use a ton of icing to get the height I wanted and later, I realized hiding a strawberry inside the icing would not only look awesome when halved (just like TastyKitchen's pin) but also help me save time and calories. I also sprinkled Nonpareils JOLLY MIX to give more xmas vibe to the tree. For the topper, I wanted to use a star but I couldn't find anything that resembles a star in Walmart so I just went ahead with cute Santa chocolates instead.

On the right is 'Christmas Tree Sushi / Rice ball' that Ochikeron has created and I loved it! Her video is attached below so definitely check it out if you are planning next Christmas food already. Unfortunately, I couldn't get Salmon Roe or Tuna Tartar from where I live so I replaced Tuna tartar that sits inside the tree with Tuna & majo mixture (added a dash of sugar too), and went without decorations on the tree. Still really cute, in my opinion. I hope this post brought you the joy of Christmas again, if not inspired you for next year and I thank Tasty Kitchen and Ochikeron for awesome recipes!  

December was full of events, so I seized the opportunity and tried many Pinterest recipes I have saved up. To my surprise, I haven't had any #pinterestfail (btw, I love watching pinterestfails sometime. Some of them make me laugh so hard!) and I wanted to share some of my favourite #pinterestsuccess 

To the left, you have Cheeze bread! I have seen this recipe over and over from magazines, blogs, instagram, pinterest etc etc, so I had to give this a go. I got my inspiration from BeanTownBaker's pin  and as you can see, it looked awesome!! Since I had pesto left in my fridge, I rubbed it in with olive oil and mixed sliced cheddar with mozzarella. Perfect potluck idea of all time!

This pretty wreath was inspired by Living Locurto's pin and was definitely the highlight of my Christmas party. It's made with mini sausage wrapped in crescent roll, sprinkled with parsley and baked for 20 min. The ribbon was made out of bell pepper (or paprika I call) and together it booked soo pretty. I served this with sweet chili sauce and was definitely everyone's favourite of the day. 

This was a brunch idea, also seen over and over again on pinterest. I love how versatile Pillsbury rolls can get and throughout whole December, my fridge was always stocked up with Pillsbury's Cresent Roll, Cinnamon Roll and Biscuits. 

For this particular recipe I used Pillsbury Grands Cinnamon roll with  Apple Smoked Bacon from Trader Joes and have I told you that it's about the BEST bacon you can get over the counter?! Trader Joe's bacon combined with cinnamon makes a killer brunch.