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Waitrose Christmas food range: top treats to try

July 21, 2010 by Sarah Trivuncic 7 Comments

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It may be July but Waitrose just held the most fabulous Christmas party with previews of the Waitrose Christmas food range.

Waitrose Christmas food range preview

All items from the Waitrose Christmas food range were on display and many were available to taste. The main Waitrose Christmas food ranges being highlighted were Heston from Waitrose featuring dishes developed in collaboration with Heston Blumenthal, the Seriously range and Duchy Originals organic range.

Waitrose Christmas food range preview

Getting your head around what to eat at Christmas was surprisingly easy when it all looked this good.  Below are my favourite five savoury and favourite five sweet items from the Waitrose Christmas food range. You won’t find turkey or mince pies in this top 10, these items were those which I thought were most exciting.

If you are hungry for more then do check out the huge photo album on my new Facebook page.  (Make sure you “like” me too!)

Waitrose Christmas food mini fish and chips

1. Waitrose Christmas Mini Fish and Chips Cones

Waitrose Christmas

2. Waitrose Christmas Ham Hock Scones with Mustard

Predicted to be a best seller.
Waitrose Christmas Entertaining

3. Mini Shellfish Selection (from Waitrose Entertaining only)

Waitrose Christmas tea smoked salmon

4. Heston from Waitrose Lapsang Souchong Tea Smoked Salmon

with Vanilla Mayonnaise

This vanilla mayonnaise was fantastic!  Incase you are wondering, I made this recent cake before I saw this.
Waitrose christmas brie with grand marnier

5. Waitrose Christmas Rouzaire Brie with Grand Marnier.

Can you see a faint horizontal line through the middle of this brie? They slice it through the middle like a cake, drizzle with Grand Marnier and then sandwich it back together to let the rind build up again outside.
Christmas tree cake

6. Waitrose Christmas Tree chocolate cake – a bargain at £5.99, it was huge.

7. Box of Chocolate Dessert Pots

These were still in development but the idea is that you will be able to give a box of little desserts as a gift rather than a box of chocolates. I can see food bloggers the breadth of the country swooping in and buying these for the little glass dishes alone!
Waitrose-Heston-Christmas-Pudding

8. The famous Waitrose Heston Christmas Pudding with hidden candied orange

Waitrose’s show stopper this Christmas is Heston’s Orange Christmas Pudding. A whole candied orange inside.
Waitrose christmas cheesecake

9. Waitrose Christmas Fruit and Nut Cheesecake

I really loved the jewelled appearance of the fruit on top of this cheesecake.
Waitrose christmas chocolate cake

10. Waitrose Christmas Nutty Chocolate Kugelhopf

My personal favourite, the Christmas kugelhopf.  I thought this dessert had real “wow” factor. Apparently it looks even better if you microwave it for 20 seconds to make the chocolate sauce glisten.
I hope that’s whetted your appetites for later in the year and you can now get back to eating choc ices and applying sun cream in this unusually good summer we have been enjoying.  It won’t be long until Christmas ranges appear in shops, usually the second that summer sales are over.  Selfridges are opening their Christmas department the first week in August.
With thanks to Waitrose for inviting me to their Christmas launch last week. And the popcorn.

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Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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Comments

  1. Heavenly Housewife says

    July 21, 2010 at 8:30 am

    Wow, it all looks absolutely spectacular.
    Sorry u didn't get invited to the B&P thing, neither did I. I never get invited to anything, these people obvious don't appreciate greatness.
    *kisses* HH

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  2. Kasia says

    December 15, 2011 at 10:23 am

    Well, I have to say, Christmas Tree Chocolate Cake is the best chocolate cake I’ve ever had and I hope it will keep coming back on Waitrose shelves every year as I’m the first one to get it! And it is nice and big portion but it cost me more that 5.99, it was around 7.50. Merry Christmas!

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  3. Melissa says

    December 23, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    I picked up the chocolate Christmas tree cake today reduced to the bargain price of £1.99 ( short shelf life). It was delicious, the orange offers a lovely tang to the chocolate.

    Reply
  4. lior d says

    September 22, 2012 at 9:02 am

    What kind of cake was the “chocolate Kugelhopf” like? Is it a yeast based?
    I really want to make something like it, is there a recipe somewhere for a similar cake?

    Reply
    • Sarah, Maison Cupcake says

      September 23, 2012 at 8:09 pm

      To be honest, it’s two years ago now and I never tasted one personally. I recall from the description on packaging it was a dense chocolate cake and not yeast based.

      Reply

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