Gwen Stefani And Blake Shelton Turned This Over-The-Top Italian Dish Into An Unexpected Christmas Tradition

Only Gwen and Blake!

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton don’t do anything small, especially when it comes to Christmas.

Speaking with ET ahead of The Voice's season 24 semifinals on Monday, Stefani opened up about her and Shelton’s culinary Christmas tradition that’s anything but ordinary.

"We started off by always trying to find something that wasn't a tradition—like, let's try something different, try something new," Stefani explained. "We stumbled across this dish called the Timpano Dome... it's basically like a lasagna but it's in this dome formed either with bread or a pasta. We started doing that a few years ago and now that's the thing, yeah."

"Probably some Italians might get mad about this, because typically it would be a pasta wrapped around it, but we started doing a pizza dough because it tastes yummy," she continued. "Maybe I'll make the dough myself this year—which would be a lot on Christmas day... But I might actually do it the day before."

According to The New York Times, a timpano is a “highly festive, drum-shaped, baked pasta torte filled with all kinds of delectable goodies.” A Timpano Dome, a variation on the timpano that takes the over-the-top dish to the next level with a dome-like casing, first captured the imagination of Americans after the release of Big Night starring Stanley Tucci in 1996.

If you’re dying to see Stefani and Shelton’s finished Timpano Dome, you’re not alone. Fortunately, The Voice coach plans on sharing the outcome on social media.

“I’ll definitely put it on Instagram,” Stefani told ET, “so follow along guys!”

Shelton previously discussed his and Gwen's non-traditional Christmas cooking habits with US Weekly, revealing that it all started with another elaborate dish.

“Gwen and I, our tradition has become cooking during Christmas—and not just like your normal, typical [dishes],” the country singer explained last year. “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.”

It might not be easy, but it’s always fun.

“Singing with Gwen is way harder than cooking with her,” Shelton said. “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.”

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