Shopping: Top sweet treats for the festive season
Filling a stocking for someone with a sweet tooth? They’ll love these. . .
Made from sustainably sourced beans, Cocoa Canopy’s hand-crafted Smooth Milk and Rich Dark pearls melt in either water or milk to produce simply the best hot chocolate - £6.25 per 225g box, cocoacanopy.co.uk
Known for producing truly scrumptious chocolate that’s also vegan, fairtrade, organic and free from both palm oil and refined sugar, Sawston-based brand Ombar has captured Christmas in this limited-edition Spice Orange Hazelnut Truffle Bar - £3.29, ombar.com
Officially the world’s favourite cookie - recently announced market share stats prove it - OREO has released its classic chocolate and vanilla sandwich biscuit in a limited festive edition which sees the usual white filling coloured both red and green: same twistable, dunkable, downright delicious biccie, but *Christmas* - £2.50 for a red, white and green three-tube pack, tesco.com
Using solely fresh ingredients - responsibly sourced cocoa, organic British cream, wildflower honey - Russell & Atwell delivers restaurant-quality truffles direct to the door. This chilled pouch trio, which includes luscious limited-edition Seville Orange, is ideal for gifting - from £20, russellandatwell.com
What could be more Cambridge or more Christmas than gingerbread cookies baked and iced to look like snow-dusted city landmarks? New to the festive menu at Fitzbillies, the century-old bakery, they taste as splendid as they look - £15.95 for three, fitzbillies.com
Cadbury’s Chocolate Fingers are available in two limited festive editions: Snowy Fingers, topped with a layer of creamiest white chocolate over the usual milk, and the Festive Fingers Collection, containing Bournville, Dairy Milk and Cadbury Orange versions of the classic biscuit. All are ideal for topping stockings, sharing while movie-watching or snaffling all by yourself - £1.39 and £4.50 respectively, sainsburys.co.uk
Famed for their praline-filled seashells, Guylian’s Christmas gift to its fans is the Temptations Snowman, a cute snowman-shaped box filled with Original Praline, Milk Truffle, Caramel, Crunchy Biscuit, Dark Praline and Coffee versions of its traditional chocolates. Be warned: they are mega-moreish - £5, Lidl and Morrisons stores
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