Tesco cupcakes

Rocky Road or Cookie Dough. Yes, that's right, you no longer need to decide between cookies or cake. 
£1.50 for 2

Want something a little more festive?

Gingerbread Cupcakes Ginger sponge cakes filled with toffee sauce, topped with ginger icing and a sugar decoration.
£1.50

Yule Log Cupcakes Chocolate flavoured sponge cakes filled with chocolate flavoured sauce, topped with chocolate flavoured frosting and a chocolate flake.

Limited Edition: Special K Black Forest Gateau

Try the new Limited Edition Biscuit Moments. Delicious cocoa biscuits with a soft cherry-flavoured filling, topped with a vanilla-flavoured drizzle. The perfect accompaniment to your tea or coffee break!
£1.99 for a pack of 5 (2 biscuits per pack), Tesco

Soreen Festive Loaf

We know Santa loves his mince pies, but this year he's in for a real treat. This joyful Festive Loaf is packed full of squidgy energy and some extra yummy festive ingredients, so he's all fuelled up and ready to deliver those Christmas presents. A moist fruit loaf with raisins, currants, cherries and mixed spice.

New: Hog Roast And Apple Bites

Roast Pork mixed with apple sauce, white sauce and sage & onion stuffing in a sage and pepper panko crumb. This is fancy finger food!
£2.00 for a pack of 12, Tesco

Lindt Lindor: Marc de Champagne

Swanky. Posh champagne meets posh chocs. And even the packaging is rather posh!
£4.00, Waitrose

New Crisps

Velvet Crunch Popcorners:  It's a little early for 'New Year Resolution Diets', but what's not to like about popcorn and tortilla chips TOGETHER in one HEALTHY snack!?

Available in Spicy Cheese & Tomato if you're leaning towards the tortilla, or Sweet & Salty if you prefer the popcorn element in these!

£1.79 for a pack of 6, Tesco

Roysters T-Bone Steak Chips

Thanksgiving has been and gone, but it left its mark in the shape of these 'bubbled chips' in a lip-smacking T-bone steak flavour. Made by the same people who make Nik Naks and Discos.

£1.00 for a pack of 6, Tesco

and if you like your beef a little kinder on the waist...

Hula Hoops Puft Beef

The wonderfully light, crispy and ever so tasty, hoopy snack from the Hula Hoops family.
£1.70, pack of 6, Tesco




Kettle Bites
Take your pick, and be assured that whether you choose the Mozzarella & Pesto Lentil Curls or the Maple Barbecue Wholegrain Waves, you're being very good to yourself!
£1.89 for a pack of 5, Tesco

Heston Black Forest smoothie

Apple juice and purée blended with fruity, sharp, intense Morello cherry purée, refreshing coconut milk and a sprinkle of cocoa powder. This really works! It's not too sweet, but it's quite rich so you can make this 750ml bottle go quite a long way. And you might want to, too, at £2.39!



£2.39 for 750ml, Waitrose

Posh Pigs in Blankets

British pork meatballs, sweet cranberries and mulled spices, hand coated in a cranberry glaze and smoked bacon crumb. Just in case the Queen turns up for Christmas din dins
£5.00, Tesco

New: Tesco Bites

Salted Caramel & Pretzel Bites
Bites of dark chocolate tiffin with salted caramel and salted pretzel pieces, topped with milk chocolate. £2.00

Biscuit Fudge Brownie
Bites of dark chocolate brownie with fudge pieces, topped with biscuit pieces
£2.00



Jellybean Jumble
Bites of white chocolate covered jelly beans, flavoured fruit pieces, marshamllows and biscuit pieces.
£2.00

Tesco Spiced Pear Pies

If you should ever tire of the traditional mince pie, then fear not. Tesco has a scrummy alternative!
£1.65 for 6

Wensleydale gets festive!

"Oh I do love a bit of Wensleydale" said Wallace  Santa! Morrisons has given this classic cheese a very festive makeover in the form of these three products:

New Applewood Nibbles

Dangerous - once you start you can't stop. I kept going to the fridge for a little graze again and again. Oh dear.... But on the plus side they're great if you're serving retro pineapple and cheese canapes and can't be bothered/don't have the time (!) to chop up pesky cubes of cheese.
£2.00, Asda

Tesco Decorate Your Own Mini Snowman Doughnuts

A brilliant idea for keeping the kids occupied, albeit for 5 seconds, during the Christmas holidays! 15 mini ring doughnuts with white icing topping, orange jelly dots & black icing pen.  
£1.30

Tesco Christmas Cookies

Melting Snowman White Chocolate Cookies

Soft chewy cookies with white chocolate filling. £1.00 for 5, Tesco



If you prefer something a little more traditional, then go for the  Mince Pie Cookies, which are no less soft and chewy but contain a rich mincemeat filling. £1.00 for 5, Tesco

TGI Stuck in the Chimney Burger

Nothing says Christmas like a massive burger (errr.....), and the first festive burger on the block this year is TGI Friday’s Stuck in the Chimney Stack burger. So, what does this burger behemoth include? A 7oz beef burger and Jack Daniel’s-glazed chargrilled chicken breast with caramelised onions, Jack Daniel’s sage and onion stuffing, Swiss cheese and rich Jack Daniel’s gravy. Yes, there’s a lot of JD in there. In fact, there’s just A LOT in there. But if Christmas isn’t the time for busted-belts and heartburn, I don’t know when is.

New: Chokablok Very Merry Polar Beary

White chocolate with dark chocolate  topped with gold dusted milk chocolate coated malt balls and silver dusted desiccated coconut.
£3.50, Tesco

Christmas Crumpets

Deck your crumpets with lashings of butter! This winter, crumpets have turned festive....

Elizabeth Shaw Christmas Creations

A luxury collection featuring 4 chocolates with a definite hint of Christmas about them:

• Dark Gingerbread Crisp -  gingerbread flavour dark chocolate with crisp honeycomb pieces.
• Milk Amaretto Neapolitan - smooth and silky Amaretto flavour milk chocolate squares.
• Smooth Orange Crème -  dark chocolate with a fragrant orange infused fondant centre.
• Dark Caramel Neapolitan - creamy caramel flavour dark chocolate squares.

£5.00, Tesco

Tesco Make Your Own Christmas Lollipop

This is quite exciting, especially if you're just a Big Kid! It's a festive themed lollipop moulding kit, containing chocolate flavour (not actually the really thing) buttons, 4 lollipop moulds and 4 sticks.
£2.00, Tesco

Snowballs!

Whether it snows or not this winter, it is still possible to get your fill of snowballs....

Snowball Profiteroles
Choux pastry profiteroles with a chocolate flavour cream filling and white chocolate flavoured coating
£2.00, Tesco 

Snowball Dome Gateau

A dome shaped sponge cake filled with lemon flavoured cream mousse, white chocolate cream mousse and lemon sauce on a shortcrust pastry base, glazed with a white jelly, sprinkled with white chocolate drops. Basically just several puddings squashed in to one festive mound!

£3.00, Tesco (serves 8 but rather meanly!)

Starbucks Snowball Muffin
The Red Cups aren't the only exciting addition to the Starbucks Christmas excitement... these chocolate muffins are filled with a smooth white chocolate filling, decorated with coconut.

Hurray! It's Sundae!

Tesco have recently launched these two new additions to their chilled pudding aisle:

Jumbo Mallow Teaser Sundae
This is a vanilla flavour mousse, malt flavour mousse and chocolate custard with whipped cream, sponge pieces, milk chocolate coated malt balls and mini marshmallows. Now that's why they're called 'jumbo'!



An Autumnal offering..

Jumbo Burning Toffee SundaeToasted mallow flavour mousse, dark chocolate custard and smoke flavour caramel sauce with ginger sponge pieces, topped with coated chilli honeycomb chips and butterscotch chips. I love the addition of chilli in this as it makes it somewhat different from heaps of other indulgent puds. 



£1.50 each, Tesco

Walkers Beef & Onion... here to stay!

Back in September, Walkers launched the 'Bring It Back' competition which saw Walkers temporarily bring back 5 classic flavours. Fans were asked to vote for the flavour that they would like to have back as a permanent member of the Walkers family, and the result is....Beef & Onion!! Apparently Cheese & Chive was a close second place, followed by Lamb & Mint.

Chokablok Orange Bonanza

Move over Terry; there's a new chocolate orange in town. Hollow milk chocolate sphere flavoured with orange oil, decorated with dark chocolate (22%), orange flavour confection pieces and gold dusted shortcake biscuits.
£2.50, Tesco

New: Pork Belly Bites with Mulled Wine Drizzle

Indulgence and oppulence maximised in one mouthful! These new bites are select cuts of succulent pork belly, seasoned with a warming blend of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. They've been slow cooked for fall-apart tenderness and flavour, drizzled with rich mulled wine glaze for an indulgent finishing touch.
£3.50 for 10, Morrisons

New: BBQ Chicken Doughnuts

Golden doughnut-style buns filled with sweet 'n' smoky BBQ chicken. Why does this kind of stuff only appear at Christmas?

£2.50, Morrisons

New: Muller Greek Corner Honey Clusters

Oh Muller.... you always keep us on our toes with a never-ending stream of new products and flavours. And amidst the wintry hype, you deliver us this summery delight of whipped Greek-style yogurt accompanied with crunchy cereal honey fudge clusters. You almost convince us that it's healthy!
Currently £1.14 for 4, Tesco

M&Ms Cookie Mix

I spotted this new cookie mix in Morrisons and thought that it is essential knowledge for any chocoholic! Just add butter and water for 8 delicious and soft chocolate cookies with crunchy colourful M&Ms.

£1, Morrisons

Costa Christmas Drinks 2015

While Starbucks went for that minimal, dare I say it, classy, Red Cup design, the Costa Christmas cups have gone the other way and everyone’s loving it. Because Christmas is about Santa hats, over-indulgence and all the bells and whistles, right?

Along with its festive cups – the robin and penguin join Santa, Snowman, and Elf – Costa are doing three ridiculously sexy sounding new hot drinks: Salted Caramel Cappuccino, Tiramisu Latte and Caramel Fudge Hot Chocolate. They join old favourites, the Gingerbread and Cream Latte, the White Hot Chocolate and the Black Forest Hot Chocolate.

Caramel Fudge Hot Chocolate is topped with a chocolate shimmer powder (that's new!) and a belgian chocolate lattice. Shimmer powder also dusts the top of the Salted Caramel Cappuccino. 

On the festive food menu at Costa this year are a Salted Caramel Brownie and a Billionaire's Tart  (see pictures) as well as an Orange & Cranberry Muffin, Sticky Toffee Mini Cake, White Chocolate & Passionfruit Snowball, Gingerbread Muffin and Cherry & Almond Log. 

      

If you don't have a sweet tooth, then check out their Pigs in Blankets Panini, featuring British pork and onion sausage with Beechwood smoked British bacon, herby stuffing and cranberry sauce on a sourdough ciabatta.

Christmas has officially arrived!

Disney Mickey Mouse Gingerbread House Kit

Yup, make your very own 'Micky Mouse Club House' out of gingerbread. Poor old Micky hardly gets a look in these days thanks to Elsa, Olaf and the gang! This kit includes gingerbread, gummy bears, mini smarties, green food colouring powder (for the tree) and two small plastic bags for icing/piping. But the best bit is that you also get three collectible figures!
£9.99, Ocado

EAT Christmas Menu

Putting that frankly unhelpful World Health Organisation news to one side for a moment, feast your eyes on Eat’s glorious new Christmas menu. As of yesterday, you can treat yourself to a seasonal tub of pigs in blankets for lunch. With a dollop of cranberry sauce on the side of course. Or, for an extra special start to your day, there’s the Pigs in Blanket Breakfast Butty of dreams. Okay that *might* not be the official name. The tiny sausages wrapped in bacon duvets (made from 100 per cent British pork) are making their debut on the sandwich chain’s Christmas menu this year. They join fellow newcomer, the Turkey, Bacon and Stuffing Pie, which is made up of a delicious, creamy filling of sautéed onion and leek, thyme and sage, chunks of British turkey and smoked bacon, chestnut and cranberry stuffing, and served with a side of creamy mash and gravy. You can then wash it all down with the Spicy Brownie Hot Chocolate.