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Christmas Gift Guide 2020

Have a Merry Christmas with a cake!

Christmas is coming up fast! With only 4 weeks until Christmas Day, you’ll need to be thinking about a fabulous Christmas present to send to relatives, loved ones, and friends this festive season. It’s been a tough year for everyone, so Christmas this year could be just the thing to give everyone the pick-me-up they need, and a great gift is a way to help that happen. We have been working hard to create some fabulous goodies for this Christmas, from delicious Christmas Cake Specials, decorating kits that will make a great Christmas activity with the kids, to letterbox gifts with our Christmas Cake Cards, and this year we’ve even added cocktails! We’ve got loads of options, we're confident you’ll find the right one to send to your loved ones. Here’s everything we have on offer this year:

Christmas Cakes

You've been dreaming of a white Christmas cake! This decadent four-layer Red Velvet cake has a rich red velvet sponge and velvety smooth vanilla buttercream. It is smothered all over with white chocolate buttercream and white chocolate flakes to create a stunning snowball effect. Perfect as the centerpiece for your festive celebrations this year. Comes with a red snowflake to decorate the top!

Due to popular demand, our Spiced Orange & Cranberry Sponge has returned once again, to be enjoyed by all! Delicious whole cranberries are baked into the sponge along with free range eggs, natural orange flavouring, warming mixed spices, ginger, and cloves. Fresh orange juice is drizzled on top with crunchy Demerara sugar and gold stars. It is also available as a gluten free cake!

Cakes and Brownies with Christmas Cake Decorating Kits

Get into the spirit of Christmas with this fabulously fun Chocolate Cake Christmas Decorating Kit! A great activity to do with your loved ones on the run-up to the big day and will look lovely as a centerpiece on your Christmas table! You could do one snowman as seen on our decorating tutorial on our YouTube Channel, or even a little family of snowmen - it's completely up to you! Get your family together and get creative this Christmas.

Get the family together for some fun Christmas decorating. Turn our Triple Chocolate Brownie into 8 marvelous mini Christmas tree lollipops. A lovely activity to do together in the run-up to Christmas - especially if you have a bigger family, as everyone will get to decorate a piece themselves! Create a Christmas tree stack for a festive dessert or put them all back together for a stunning centerpiece for your Christmas table. Get creative this Christmas. You can follow our decorating tutorial on our YouTube Channel.

Our Baby Sponges just got even cuter! Decorate four of our Chocolate Baby Sponges each with a different festive design. The perfect Christmas craft activity for the children (and adults too!). Check out our decorating videos on our YouTube Channel, we have one for each design so you can recreate them at home step by step!

Christmas Extras

Bah! Humbug! Cocktail - Forgot the After Eights? Eaten all the Elizabeth Shaw After Dinner mints? Well, then this cocktail is just what you need. The perfect blend of white chocolate liqueur, peppermint, and vodka. Comes as an 80ml pouch.

Serving suggestion: Best served ice cold from the fridge in a sugar-rimmed glass and a candy cane to top it off.

Christmas Negroni Cocktail - A festive twist on the classic Negroni. Gin, vermouth, and Campari, with the added twist of cinnamon and spices. Perfect for those cold Winter evenings. Made with London Dry gin, Campari, Martini vermouth, Angostura bitters, spiced apple pie syrup, cinnamon. Comes as an 80ml pouch.

Serving suggestion: Made to be enjoyed straight from the pouch; simply pour over cubed ice in a short glass. Garnish with a thin slice of orange or burnt orange zest.

Mulled Wine Cocktail - Enjoyed either cold over ice or warm with apple juice this mulled wine cocktail is the perfect winter treat with fragrant cinnamon and hints of chocolate. Made with Tawny port, orange liqueur, cinnamon, hazelnut syrup, Angostura bitters, and chocolate bitters. Comes as an 80ml pouch.

Serving suggestion: Absolutely delicious over ice with a slice of orange. Alternatively add equal measures of cloudy apple juice and cocktail, heat in the microwave or in a pan. Enjoy in a mug with a slice of orange and a cinnamon stick, for that proper 'mulled wine' experience.

Letterbox Christmas Gifts

Spread some festive cheer this year, with a wonderful Christmas Cake Card! We have some wonderful Christmas Cards to choose from. You can also include lots of goodies from our added extras to put in the card, along with a slice or two of delicious cake. We have fabulous cake flavours to choose from, including standard cake slices, gluten free cake slices, vegan cake slices, and our seasonal special slice.

Mince Pie Cake Slice - Deliciously fruity mincemeat is baked into our signature slice with mixed spice and brown sugar. It's sandwiched together with a white as snow vanilla butter icing and topped with more vanilla icing and a festive crumble. A perfect slice to enjoy over the festive season with a Christmas tipple or a cup of tea! Delivered in a Cake Card, the perfect Christmas letterbox cake! And our Mince Pie Slice is also available as gluten free Mince Pie Slice.

Christmas Gift Delivery 2020

Our Christmas Cakes and brownies are ideal for the big day! Make sure you get your orders in, in time for Christmas delivery! Please choose either December 22nd or 23rd to guarantee delivery for Christmas Day.

We can deliver anywhere in the UK including cake delivery to London, cake delivery Manchester, cake delivery Birmingham, cake delivery Liverpool as well as cakes delivered to Bristol. We also offer brownie delivery to Newcastle, brownie delivery Cardiff, brownie delivery Leeds, and brownie delivery all over the UK. To work out how much delivery will be to a specific postcode simply use our delivery calculator located at the bottom of our delivery information page.

Our Christmas Cake Cards are a great letterbox gift to send to someone, and they are so affordable. Just like our cake and brownies, they can be sent anywhere in the UK! We use Royal Mail’s standard 1st Class postage for quick, efficient delivery across the UK. They aim to deliver 93% of 1st Class mail the next working day after posting, including Saturdays, although this is not a guaranteed service.

Please be aware that Royal Mail are currently struggling to keep up with the volume of deliveries. Therefore, it is very possible that your cake card, or any order that is being sent by Royal Mail, could be delayed.

Please bear this in mind when choosing your delivery date as cake card deliveries are estimates and not a guarantee.

We send everything out 1st class and allow 48 hours for delivery. Unfortunately, in some cases Royal Mail are still needing longer to make deliveries.