Holiday time is one of the few times of the year you can indulge in decadent treats and not feel guilty (just hide your scale under your bed for a few weeks)! Here are a few food discoveries of mine that I now cannot live without no matter what time of the year it is!
I have been a huge fan of Shark Tank veteran brand Ecreamery for several years now and it’s because of the insane homemade quality of their ice cream and the way they never run out of new flavors to create for every holiday and birthday! You can even get labels with a loved one’s name on it to help celebrate their big day with ice cream! Pictured above is the Santa’s Stash Ultimate Collection which features eight amazing flavors and is perfect for a get together of 8 to 12 ice cream fans! They even make koozies for their pints that you can purchase at an additional charge of $5.00 each. The flavors in the Santa’s Stash collection are:
- Butter Pecan: Butter Pecan Ice Cream with Praline Pecans
- Frosted Sugar Cookie: Sugar Cookie Ice Cream with Frosted Sugar Cookie Pieces & Sprinkles
- Peppermint Mocha: Chocolate Coffee Ice Cream with Cookie Crunch & Peppermint Pieces
- Gingerbread Cheesecake: Cream Cheese Frosting Ice Cream with Gingerbread Cookie Pieces
- White Chocolate Peppermint:White Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream with Peppermint Flakes and Chocolate Chunks
- Sea Salt Caramel Brownie: Sea Salt Caramel Ice Cream with Brownie Bites
- Chocolate Cake: Chocolate Cake Ice Cream with Brownie Bites & Fudge Swirls
- Praline Pecan: Double Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with Praline Pecans & Caramel Swirls
Order here for at the discounted price of $89.99: Santa’s Stash Ultimate Collection.
I am a huge fan of panettone and no holiday get together is right without them. Panettone is traditionally served on Christmas morning in Sicily and no one does them better than Bona Furtuna, a high end gourmet food company whose items are so sought after that they are sold at high end department stores like Neiman Marcus. Some of their items have even made Oprah’s Favorite Things List! I adore Bona Furtuna’s Panettone Trio which includes one each of their Blood Orange & EVOO Panettone, Lemon & Cherry Panettone and Double Chocolate & Malvasia Panettone. Order here for $169.95: Bona Furtuna Panettone Trio.
Speaking of Oprah’s Favorite Things, this year she selected this amazing assortment of honey products called The Bees Knees by Bona Furtuna. The recipient of this amazing item will discover nature’s sweetest honey gifts in a gorgeous collection box. This 100% organic Italian honey gift set includes our Wildflower, Sulla and Lemon Blossom Honeys, as well as our stunning Bee Pollen, a golden spoon, and a booklet containing chef curated recipes to ignite your imagination. Order here discounted to just $88.00: Bona Furtuna’s The Bees Knees.
I love Sugarwish, which in a nutshell is an excellent electronic gift card that lets a recipient pick anything they want off the Sugarwish site from candy to cookies to wine. You can send a small Sugarwish that will come in a spectacular box similar to the one pictured for only $36, postage included. I always spend my $36 Sugarwish e-cards on four old school candies including gummies, caramels, licorice and non-pareils! Check out the site for the endless array of choices! You can even get flowers on Sugarwish now and last year I was the recipient of three mini orchid plants that are still blooming today. This is a link for the $36 Sugarwish which gets you four cookies or candies of your choice: Small Sugarwish.
The legendary Vosges Haut Chocolat just keeps coming up with tastier and more gorgeously packaged chocolates each year. I can hardly believe their level of creativity and I bet you can’t either when you peruse their website, www.vosges.com. For Holiday 2024, I am especially loving the 22-piece Starseed Truffle Collection pictured above. Here’s a list of all the amazing truffles that are included:
Black Forest Cherry, 2pcs
Morello cherries + 72% cacao dark chocolate + rosebud tea + rose petal
Dalmore™ Ginger Fig, 2pcs
The Dalmore whisky, 12 years old + Turkish fig + 62% cacao dark chocolate + crystallized ginger
Fika Bombe, 1pc
I.G.P. Piemonte hazelnuts + Arabica coffee + 45% cacao deep milk chocolate + cocoa nibs
Lingonberry, 4pcs
Forest raspberry and Finnish lingonberry pâte de fruits + cacao fruit pulp + 62% cacao dark chocolate + spirulina
Lucia Lemon Bombe, 1pc
Mascarpone + yuzu + lemon balm + curcumin tinted 36% cacao white chocolate + 23 karat gold leaf
Oolong Orange, 4pcs
Mountain grown oolong tea + 45% cacao deep milk chocolate + Japanese orange
Orchid Vanilla, 2pcs
Orchid flower vanilla + kyoord high-phenolic olive oil + 72% cacao dark chocolate + orchid
Pear Tarte, 3pcs
Williams pear + Sicilian lemon + housemade burnt sugar caramel + 45% cacao deep milk chocolate + a sliver of almond
Pine Ginger Bombe, 1pc
Birch pine + organic Wakaya ginger + mascarpone + 36% cacao white chocolate + Bronte pistachio
Swedish Kanelbulle, 2pcs
Maca + Vietnamese Royal cinnamon + almond + cardamom + 62% cacao dark chocolate + nonpareils
Order here for $85.00: Vosges Starseed Collection.
Lady Fortunes is a company known for for their unique extra large fortune cookies for every occasion but did you know that they have all types of cookies ranging from gingerbread men to handmade macarons? I fell in love with this 12 piece Assorted Macaron Collection pictured above the minute I first saw it. These festive “French favorite” treats are made from scratch with almond meringue cookies and vanilla buttercream filling, then expertly hand decorated in snowmen, Santa suit and Snowflake designs. When you taste these macarons, it will be hard to not eat the whole dozen in one sitting. Order here for $49.95: Lady Fortunes Holiday Macarons.
