Archived Maison Cupcake blog post published in 2010 - remaining available for reference. Article below may contain references to withdrawn products or past events.
It may be July but Waitrose just held the most fabulous Christmas party with previews of the Waitrose Christmas food range.
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.
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1. Waitrose Christmas Mini Fish and Chips Cones
2. Waitrose Christmas Ham Hock Scones with Mustard
3. Mini Shellfish Selection (from Waitrose Entertaining only)
4. Heston from Waitrose Lapsang Souchong Tea Smoked Salmon
with Vanilla Mayonnaise
5. Waitrose Christmas Rouzaire Brie with Grand Marnier.
6. Waitrose Christmas Tree chocolate cake – a bargain at £5.99, it was huge.
7. Box of Chocolate Dessert Pots
8. The famous Waitrose Heston Christmas Pudding with hidden candied orange
9. Waitrose Christmas Fruit and Nut Cheesecake
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
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!
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.
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?
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.