Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, let the Christmas spirit ring

Later we’ll have some pumpkin pie and we’ll do some caroling

That pumpkin pie is all I’ve been thinking about for the past three weeks. Well, the pumpkin pie, the gingerbread cookies, the fancy holiday cheeses, the eggnog, the Christmas roast and the mulled wine. Basically, the food is one of my favorite parts of Christmas!

But when it comes to holiday cooking, many of us tend to get a bit too ambitious. Oh, a new recipe that I’ve never made before with 50 steps? Sounds great for me! (Even though the most cooking I’ve done in the past 2 months was baking brownies from a box mix…)

It’s natural to want to impress our loved ones with holiday treats and to try to go above and beyond with our festive feasts. But it’s always important to know our limitations in life, or we might end up with Santa cookies that look like demons or cheesecake that appears to have been in a nuclear explosion. Down below, we’ve gathered some of the most hilarious and tragic holiday cooking fails from this subreddit dedicated to painful food pics to help you pandas feel a little bit better about your slightly burnt Christmas turkey.

Be sure to upvote the pics that make you want to order takeout next Christmas, and let us know in the comments if you’ve ever experienced any holiday cooking fails that your family will never let you live down. Then, if you’re interested in viewing even more unfortunate fails people have experienced on Christmas, check out this Bored Panda article next!

#1 I’ve Been Thinking What To Cook For Christmas This Year???

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#2 Cheesecake Buttholes For A Christmas Party

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#3 Getting Ready For Christmas With A Classy Gingerbread House

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#4 My 11 Year Old’s Christmas Cookie

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#5 Merry Christmas

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#6 My Friend’s Mom Made Christmas Bread

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#7 My Mom Made Jabba The Ham For Christmas

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#8 Merry Christmas

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#9 My Mom’s Christmas Cookies Didn’t Come Out Like She’d Anticipated

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#10 My Daughter Asked For A Pancake Shaped Like A Christmas Stocking. I Very Much Failed

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#11 I Made Christmas Candle Salad For My Family. Because Bananas In Cranberry Jello Stars, Topped With Almonds And Dripping Mayonnaise, Were A Normal Thing In 1958

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#12 Christmas Sweater Pizza

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#13 Happy Holidays

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#14 I’d Just Like To Show Off My Christmas Pizza Before It Gets Fucked Up In The Oven ?

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#15 Who’s Ready For Christmas Morning Waffles?

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#16 Tim Hortons Special Holiday Polar Bear Dream Donut. Nailed It!

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#17 Pizza Snowman Holiday Abomination

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#18 My Mother-In-Law’s Contribution To Christmas Dinner. It Was Supposed To Be A Caramel Cake

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#19 Christmas “Snowman” Cheeseball, A Holiday Treat That Requires A Little Imagination

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#20 My Brother Is Eating His New Cereal He Made From Broken Christmas Cookies

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#21 Shrimp Christmas Tree

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#22 Merry Covid Christmas. Here’s My Special Christmas Eve Dinner In Quarantine

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#23 My Christmas Ham

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#24 Boyfriend Was Confused Why He Had A Tin Of Pineapple And Candied Cherries In His Stocking But He’d Told Me Once How Much He Likes Both, So For Christmas I Used Them To Make My First Ever Pineapple Upside-Down Cake For Him 🙂

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#25 Only The Fanciest Hors D’oeuvres For Christmas Dinner

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#26 Delicious Xmas Snack

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#27 Ramen House. Happy Holidays

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#28 Local Grocery Store Has Some Festive (And Sad) Holiday Breads!

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#29 I Had One Mushroom, Two Pieces Of Salami, Some Dough, Sauce And Cheese. Merry Christmas!

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#30 My Dad Was So Disappointed That He Burnt The Christmas Ham Until I Showed Him It Belonged Here On R/Shiryfoodporn. He Was Enthralled That There Was A Place For Such Food Misfortunes

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#31 Christmas Schlong (Beef Wellington)

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#32 I Got A Breakfast Sandwich Maker For Christmas

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#33 Christmas Eve Feast

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#34 Family Didn’t Show Up For Xmas Dinner So Made Sweet Potato Cream Burned Marshmallow Soup With The Groceries

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#35 This Japanese Make It Yourself Little Food My Sister Got Me For Christmas

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#36 I Work At One Of The Best Funded Hospitals In The Nation And This Is The Christmas Dinner They Offered To Night Shift. It Tasted Just Like What It Cost

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#37 Christmas Leftovers – Sous Vide Lamb With Jarlsberg On Hashbrowns

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#38 One Of My Friends Relatives Decided To Go Full Out Jelly For Christmas

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#39 Christmas Has Passed, I Still Can’t Get This Piece Of Shit Off The Plate, Because Of The Construction Grade Icing

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#40 I Think I Found A New Christmas Tradition: Tomato Aspic In The Form Of Elmo

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#41 Made Some Christmas Cookies Yesterday

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#42 My Girlfriend Bought An Xmas Chocolate Raindeer But It’s Face Melted Off And Now It Looks Like A Haunted Evil Thing. She Wants To Know If We Should Still Gift It. I Say Yes

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#43 Happy Holidays!

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#44 Saw This While Browsing Twitter. Happy Holidays!

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#45 Highlight Of The Christmas Potluck

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#46 Christmas Dinner

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#47 Christmas Dinner

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#48 Christmas Salad By My Mum

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#49 Hotdog Pie At The Office Christmas Party

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#50 Refried Black Beans With A Green Sauce And Red Sauce. I Call It Black Christmas

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#51 My Schools Free Turkey Lunch For Christmas

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#52 Work’s Christmas Dinner

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#53 My Mom Wanted Us To Have A Special Dinner For Our Last Day Of Christmas Vacation So We Broke Out The Fancy Glasses

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#54 My Friend’s Christmas Dinner

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#55 Made Some Soup From The Xmas Dinner Leftovers, Mostly Brussel Sprouts

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#56 Husband’s Xmas Dinner: Frozen Pizza Enhanced With Red And Green

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#57 Xmas Breakfast. Avocado Toast With Poached Eggs, Parmesan, And Beth’s Kitchen Salsa Picante. Merry Chrysler!

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#58 Xmas Snowman Cookie

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#59 You Already Know What’s Going On Here. Old School Xmas Desserts Are A Total Thing

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#60 I Made Both Sweet And Savory Jell-O Salads For My Friend’s Xmas Party

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#61 Happy Holidays And Bone Apple Teeth! “Festive” House Made From Pretzel Bread And Cheese Dip

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#62 Two Grown Adults Underestimate The Difficulty Of A Task Designed For Children And Wind Up Raising A Swarm Of Holiday Gremlins. Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals

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#63 Chicken Tenderloin Tree, Happy Holidays!

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#64 Getting Into The Holiday Spirit!

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#65 Someone Sent A Pancake/Waffle Decorating Kit For The Holidays. The Kids Had Fun

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#66 First Time Baking Merry Christmas

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#67 Chicken Cutlet Christmas (Xpost From R/Trees)

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#68 Mum Kicked Me Out Of The House This Week And Cancelled Christmas. Here’s My Own Christmas Pavlova After Lamb Shanks At The Hotel I’m Staying

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#69 We Have All Types Of Good Stuff For Christmas Breakfast And My Fiancé Chooses To Make A Sandwich With An Old Chicken Cutlet, Onion Ring And Ketchup

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#70 Christmas Dinner Sandwich

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#71 My Christmas Dinner! Good Bread Good Meat. Good God Let’s Eat!

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#72 Cocktail Weenies Attached To A Styrofoam Christmas Tree With Toothpicks. Served With Barbecue Sauce, Mustard, Rosemary Garnish, And A Cheddar Cheese Star On Top

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#73 A Cheesecake I Tried Making For Christmas

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#74 I Go Off My Diet Twice A Year. This Christmas, This Sub Gave Me A New Idea

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#75 My Christmas Dinner

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#76 Last Time I Got Tons Of Complaints About Using Too Many Sprinkles.. So I Added More This Time. Try Being Mean, I Dare You. And Yes, That Is Christmas Sprinkles, I Ran Out Of Rainbow

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#77 Christmas Dinner Poutine At Boston Pizza In Canada

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#78 Merry Christmas From Shinjuku

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#79 On Christmas Day I Always Make My Brother-In-Law A Ramen Omelette. This Yeah The Assorted “Meats” Didn’t Fit And Had To Be Served On The Side

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#80 Stuffed-Crust Christmas Dinner Pizza

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#81 Christmas Breakfast Is Always A Special Thing

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#82 Christmas Morning Feast: Cheese And Olive Balls, Cheese And Sausage Balls, Pigs In Blankets, And Chick-Fil-A Chicken Nuggets

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#83 Christmas Mac & Cheese Anyone?

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#84 Father In Law’s Beef Christmas Day. He Said “It’s Perfect”

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#85 A Christmas Eve Staple At My Friend’s Home

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#86 Christmas Meat And Cheese Plate + Wine

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#87 I’m Somewhat Known At My Company For Baking Cakes For People. My Boss Asked Me To Make One For The Xmas Party But I’ll Be On Leave. I Still Wanted Him To Know Exactly What I Think Of Him

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#88 Tried To Make A Jennie O Turkey Breast. I Didn’t Know Turkey Could Come Out As Goo. ? Replaced It With Chicken Tenders For Xmas Dinner

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#89 Xmas Morning Breakfast!!

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#90 Xmas Tortilla (X-Post R/Pics) (Op)

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#91 Happy Holidays

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#92 Raw Beef And Onion Santa From The Holiday Party At A Bar Near My House

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#93 Gourmet Decorative Tootsie Cabin For The Holidays

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#94 Christmas Eve Feast When You’re Working Second Shift In A Korean Academy… ?

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#95 My Grandma Made This Disgusting Scrambled Egg Looking Lemon Cake After Christmas Dinner

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#96 Home Alone Xmas Ribeye. Only Set The Fire Alarm Off Once!

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#97 Thought You Guys Might Like My Friends Rather “Overdone” Xmas Turkey

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#98 Junk Food On Xmas Party

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#99 I Splurge On Xmas Eve

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#100 My Xmas Morn Breakfast: Reheated Frijoles Mixed With Creamy Enchilada Sauce

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#101 Cross Section Of Xmas Frosting And Cake

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#102 Merry Xmas Reddit! From Our Snowman To Yours

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#103 Vegan Holiday Roast

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#104 Our Family’s Traditional Christmas Breakfast: Pickled Pork, Bread Soaked In Pickled Pork Juice, Oranges, Shot Of Gin

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