Christmas 2025: The best gifts for foodies

Goodwood Park Hotel

One of the biggest food trends of the year is the rise of Dubai Chocolate — chocolate bars loaded with pistachio cream and crunchy shards of kunafa. Trust Goodwood Park Hotel, known for its creative Christmas treats, to ride on this wave through two of its new festive confections.

The Crisp-mas Pistachio Kunafa Tart ($88) features rich chocolate cream cheese and ganache studded with shredded filo pastry, a staple of Middle Eastern desserts, and carpeted with a lush layer of caramelised pistachios.

Also new is the Earl Grey Winter Sleigh ($118), which heralds the arrival of Santa Claus with a parade of “reindeer” and a sleigh filled with chocolate truffles and chocolate-coated almonds.

Paving the Chantilly cream-filled route is a stylish block of Earl Grey cremeux, on a bed of kunafa, layered with fluffy pistachio sponge and tangy raspberry compote, all nestled in pistachio mousse. 

The Yuletide Chocolate Travel Cake ($78), an ode to the gâteau de voyage, is a fuss-free dessert designed to endure long journeys. The durable log-shaped cake has a core of Manjari chocolate cake and vanilla-spiced apricot compote, covered in decadent dark chocolate and almond glaze. 

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Little Farms

Looking to impress your gourmand friends? Gourmet market and cafe chain Little Farms offers a one-stop solution with its festive hampers ($88 to $400). Each hamper is designed to complete Christmas food entertaining needs, with candy canes, buttery shortbread, and artisanal chocolates.

Highlights include panettone from Brera Milano, a 150-year-old Milanese producer; chocolate hammer slabs from La Chocolatier; colourful nougats from De Barbaro; Montezuma sweets; and a delicious array of cannoli, biscuits, and marzipan from Fratelli Sicilia. 

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Alice Boulangerie

The signature Christmas train-shaped log cake ($108) from the French bakery and cafe goes for a white, winter-wonderland look this year. The “train” comes cloaked in an ethereal white blanket of coconut mousse.

Underneath the “snow” lies a tropical party of mango compote and tangy passionfruit curd-filled eclair that sits on a base of crunchy coconut dacquoise and brown sugar sponge. 

New this year is the Pecan Tart ($78), which cradles a rich pecan caramel, studded with large toasted pecans that resemble shimmering amber jewels. 

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The Singapore Edition

The hotel’s executive pastry chef, Alex Chong, has concocted a boozy Christmas through Cognac Chocolate Noir Noel Buche ($114.45), a chic block of Moelleux chocolate, rum, and cognac ganache and Dominican dark cacao mousse, filled with brandy-soaked raisins.

Two other logcakes are the Praline Mango-Yuzu Noel Buche and Citrus Vanilla Noel Buche. 

Craving for bite-sized sweet treats? The Lobby Bar offers a cheerful parade of Dessert Trolley Petit Gâteau, with treats like Arabica Coffee and Chestnut-Blackcurrant. 

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Fico

The breezy beachside Italian restaurant offers a limited-edition pannettone in collaboration with Olivieri 1882, a fifth-generation Italian artisan pastry shop. Crafted by Fico’s chef-partner Mirko Febbrile, pastry director Jeanette Ow, and the Olivieri 1882 team, the sweet bread takes on the Chocolate and Rum flavour.

The pannettone ($89) unites the warmth of rich, velvety dark chocolate, a hint of candied orange, and a kiss of aged rum. Traditionally enjoyed during the Christmas and New Year’s season, panettone is a cherished symbol of luck and prosperity.

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