Favourite Christmas "posh" treats

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I'm looking for some nice little treats that obviously wouldn't be brought on a normal basis.

We usually like to get some posh biscuits from Fortnum and mason and some Charbonnel et Walker chocolate truffles.

What are your little Christmas luxury's? X

@TubbyTubster I have just gone down a Fortnum and Mason rabbit hole and now have a wish list of about £280 worth of Christmassy stuff...

Niederegger Marzipan - only the dark chocolate and only the original flavour

My mums homemade mince pies!

They're only around once a year- she must make at least 20 batches during December to cover the demand from her workplace, parties and her kids! (Me)

Other than that, we don't really buy fancy biscuits or chocolates, just wait and see if we're given any. Have all the usual supermarket stuff though :)

Yes to the rose and violet creams.
Colston Bassett Stilton, vacherin d’or cheeses.
Lebkuchen.

This thread makes me want to gnaw my own arm off! Now trying to track down pickles walnuts for DH!

Florentines, after eights and marzipan fruit shapes we had as children

Will deffo get them this year

Thank you

Hotel chocolate

Lauden chocolates
Voakes pies
Chocolate Block red wine (amazing, genuinely tastes chocolatey)
Maraschino cherries in Snowball cocktails

Yum yum yum!

Adding snowballs to my list!

Chocolate orange is a must, I put one in the toe of DSs stocking!

Oh yes, lebkuchen!! While watching Xmas movies on freeview

Glass jars of cherries in thick kirsch syrup from M&S.

I put them on ice cream, or on cheesecake, or just quietly eat them with a spoon.

I love Christmassy drinks - but have never tried a snowball. For some reason I always thought it had raw egg in it?! But I can see now that it doesn't - might give it a go this year...

Now I want marzipan fruit. And lebkuchen.

Parkin - I think you can either make snowballs with Advocaat or you can use brandy, sugar syrup and a raw egg. At least, I have vague memories of making it like that as a student for Christmas parties because doing that using Sainsbury’s own brand brandy worked much cheaper than Advocaat. One year we bought all the brandy in the local Sainsbury’s. And added the leftover brandy to the mulled wine.

Now realising there may have been a number of reasons I didn’t get a first...

Also now badly want marzipan.

I've had a bottle of brandy on my fridge for years that is only used at xmas. It's sloshed on the xmas pud for flaming, then extra sloshed on after the flaming, then brandy cream added. Yum. Hopefully brandy doesn't ever go off!

Thanks Princess - that's good to know!! Will definitely give them a go this year - they just look so festive.

Lidl's freeze dried cherries covered in dark chocolate

Vacherin Mont d'Or

I buy one every year and it's my Christmas present to myself...

Smoked eel
Horseradish and beetroot pickle

Quince crackers
Truffle crisps
Poppaballs for sloe gin prosecco cocktails
Snaffling Pig Jars of pork scratchings

I love Beech's coffee creams, hard to find but managed to track them down in Iceland for £1 a box.. I bought 5
I also enjoy Hotel Chocolat Marzipan box.. £10 and a real treat

I love Asda Extra Special Christmas Cake It has lots of Brandy soaked Fruit and you can actually taste the brandy

Niederegger little chocolate marzipans, the flavoured ones. The liquor ones are especially Christmassy.

Cheese- we live in France so have a great everyday selection but I will go to the posh cheese shop and buy some superior quality Camembert and Epoisse (I won’t take DS with me who announced a few years ago to DH that Mummy had just spent 20 euro on 2 pieces of cheese ).

Fior de Latte liquor from Italy.

A couple of boxes of nice Lindt chocolates, I can take it or leave it at other times in the year but love a few chocolates at Christmas.

Biddy Thanks to you also mentioning them in previous years, orangettes are now a Christmas must-have for me.