Christmas treats: Bourbon-spiked cupcakes and salted caramel cookies
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Christmas treats: Bourbon-spiked cupcakes and salted caramel cookies
Behold! This festive season'southward Yuletide goodies include amaretto-glazed fruitcake, dark chocolate peppermint dessert and mascarpone cookies exclusive to Singapore.
(Photo: Plain Vanilla)
21 Nov 2022 06:46AM (Updated: 21 May 2022 04:50PM)
Ah, 'tis the season for spoiling your foodie friends (and yourself, let's exist honest) with a host of holiday treats. The options are many: You could indulge your guests with baked delights and decadent desserts that smell like Christmas when entertaining at dwelling house. Or surprise them with a thoughtfully put together souvenir prepare or a gourmet hamper.
Either manner, their palates and bellies will thank you for it.
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RAZZLE DAZZLE 'EM
Australian tea company T2's holiday collection is aptly themed "Best In Show" and highlights much-loved classics like the delightful Choc Berry Trifle, Mulled Wine Magic and Frosted Fruitcake (S$thirty per tin).
Customer favourites like French Earl Grayness and Sleep Tight are also repackaged as adorable ornaments (South$12 each) for the festivities. T2's colourful tea ware makes for corking gifting, also.
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Absurd BEANS
No average cuppa joes with Bacha Coffee'south gift boxes. The Single-Origin Ethiopia Sidamo Mountain Coffee Purse Gift Box (S$25) harbours richly flavoured java that tastes as good as its packaging looks. Beans harvested at the border of the Ethiopian Highlands yield full-bodied cuppas with complex floral notes and the depth of cocoa.
The Fine Flavoured: Sweet United mexican states Coffee Pocketbook Gift Box (South$25), meanwhile, features Arabica beans with the subtle warmth of vanilla.
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Like their everyday bakes, Obviously Vanilla'south holidays sweets are only irresistible. Christmas fruitcakes (S$65 for a 1kg cake) are iced with an amaretto glaze and tumescent with rum-soaked glace cherries, citrus pare, gold raisins, walnuts and pecans.
Cupcakes (Due south$4.50 each) come in yuletide flavours besides – think Christmas Hummingbird, a bourbon-spiked banana and pineapple cake topped with foam cheese frosting; and Triple Chocolate Peppermint, a dark chocolate peppermint cake with white and dark chocolate swirl frosting crowned with a gold-dusted, hand-rolled peppermint chocolate truffle.
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Broiled GOOD
Christmas heralds the get-go Singapore-exclusive flavour from Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory. These Salted Caramel and Mascarpone Cookies are a lush delight and perfect for holiday gifting. They'll be bachelor at Tokyo Milk Cheese Mill ION Orchard from December 12.
Long-time fans of the brand will be pleased to know that the popular Chocolate and Mascarpone Cookies, available only at Christmastime, are back in store. Prices start from S$18 for a box of ten cookies.
ionorchard.com/shop/TOKYO-MILK-CHEESE-FACTORY?id=19
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JUST LIKE MAGIC
The scent and flavour of the holidays are distilled in TWG'south Magic Christmas Tea, with its succulent melange of citrus fruit, spices and chocolate. Available in gorgeous sea green-and-aureate gift sets, the tea too lends its sugariness, fruity notes to macarons, chocolate bonbons, log cakes and pastries.
To celebrate the season over a languid meal, head to the TWG Tea Salon to relish the S$45 Festive Set up Menu comprising a principal course of duck breast curlicue with baby pears poached in Red Christmas Tea and a selection of vanilla or chocolate Magic Christmas Tea-infused mini log cake. Each meal comes with a choice of hot Magic Christmas Tea, Christmas Lights iced tea or a Magic Christmas Tea-infused mocktail (Due south$ten supplement).
ionorchard.com/shop/TWG-TEA-SALON-and-BOUTIQUE
TEA-TOTALLY
Everything, peculiarly a cup of tea, is better shared. So what better way to usher the advent of Christmas than with a pair of teabags for savouring each twenty-four hours. The 1872 Clipper Tea Co'southward Advent Calendar (Southward$39.90) comes in a pretty array of 24 teabags, with blends that include Longan Paradise, Blissful Berries, English language Breakfast, Timeless Earl Grey and Peppermint.
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BASKET Example
Give the gift of fine local flavours with Violet Oon's Festive Hampers. Each basket comes packed with well-made familiar favourites similar brandy-soaked fruitcakes, kaya jam, peanut cookies, kokosnoot candy, pineapple tarts and fifty-fifty champagne. Prices start from S$lx.
ionorchard.com/shop/VIOLET-OON-SINGAPORE
CHRISTMAS WITH A VIEW
If, perhaps, you lot have no plans to stay dwelling this Christmas, y'all could consider making your festive meal extra special by enjoying it 55 storeys up – the view from that altitude is monumental, to say the least.
At Salt Grill and Sky Bar, choose from a iii-course lunch (Southward$88) or five-form dinner (S$148) featuring prime Australian produce. Among the delectable specialities are kombu-cured Tasmanian salmon poke with avocado, smoked Yarra Valley roe and wakame; Westholme wagyu tenderloin with smoked artichoke and Perigord truffle; and a whisky and vanilla tart with Australian cherries.
To volume, call 6592 5118 or email info [at] saltgrill.com ()
In partnership with ION Orchard.
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