Blake Shelton Details Christmas Cooking Traditions With Gwen Stefani: ‘We Always Challenge Ourselves’

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Cooking for Christmas! Blake Shelton revealed some of his and Gwen Stefani‘s favorite holiday traditions — and the couple are big proponents of the culinary arts.“Gwen and I, our tradition has become cooking during Christmas — and not just like your normal, typical [dishes],” the country singer, 46, explained in Us Weekly‘s exclusive clip from NBC’s Christmas in Rockefeller Center special. “But we always challenge ourselves and try to come up with a different, weird, complicated, difficult thing to cook every year.

It started one year [when] she wanted to do a beef Wellington, which is not easy, by the way.”The Oklahoma native explained that he and the No Doubt frontwoman, 53, try to do “something weird and new” every year. “Gwen’s family, there’s a lot of Italian blood in her family,” Shelton added. “And so there’s tons of pastas and there’s a reason that I have a chin like a stork the last five years.

It’s because I’m hanging out with the Stefanis now.”Though the couple — who tied the knot in July 2021 — have collaborated on several duets, the “God’s Country” singer revealed that cooking with his wife is much easier than making music together. “Singing with Gwen is way harder than cooking with her,” he explained. “Cooking is easy for us because neither one of us really know what we’re doing, and all we do is laugh the whole time.

With music, we actually take [it] serious.”Fans can catch the duo’s latest collaboration on Christmas in Rockefeller Center, which airs on NBC Wednesday, November 30.