The best Christmas food gifts for foodies

1. Pan Pacific Singapore’s logcakes and festive hampers

A Christmas feast wouldn’t be complete without log cakes. Pan Pacific Singapore has added two new flavours to their logcake repository. Chocolate lovers can opt for the decadent Guanaja Chocolat Noir Logcake that comes in a classic Yule log.

A more upbeat flavour is the Festive Golden Cheese and Apple Caramel Logcake, which combines caramelised apples with golden cheese cream frosting. The hotel also offers an assortment of festive hampers with gourmet food treats from Pacific Emporium. These include the traditional rich fruitcake, orange confit stollen, gingerbread house, Christmas pralines, and more.

Carnivores will hanker after the Delicatessen Deluxe Hamper, which includes homemade charcuterie, hams, and sausages, such as Christmas citron thyme bratwursts and chicken rocket parmesan sausages.

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2. Coravin Forest Green Timeless Six+ system

The festive season calls for many bottles of wine to be opened over belly-bursting rounds of feasting. Wine connoisseurs will appreciate the Coravin Timeless Six+ wine dispensing system, which comes in a chic forest green hue for the holiday season.

The nifty device allows drinkers to enjoy wines by the glass instead of having to finish an entire bottle. The tool ($621) delicately pierces the cork with a precision-engineered needle to extract wine while simultaneously replacing it with argon gas, ensuring that oxygen doesn’t temper the wine’s quality.

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3. Little Farm’s Festive Gourmet Hampers

Gourmet food purveyor and restaurant group Little Farms has rolled out a line-up of six festive hampers ($80 to $400) chockful of epicurean treats.

The curated selection of artisanal treats in the hamper includes Cartwright & Butler Shortbread Biscuits, a family-run UK-based stalwart known for its buttery and crumbly treats, classic panettone from iconic Italian brand Bonifanti, which has been producing the leavened bread with a slow fermentation process since 1932.

Other nibbles include Montezuma chocolates, Mondo nougat bars, plump Giant Sevillana Manzanilla olives from Spain, and a range of wines and tipples. 

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4. The Caramelier’s Caramels 

Buying a gift for someone with a serious sweet tooth? Opt for hand-crafted soft caramels by The Caramelier, a new online concept by the folks behind dark chocolate-centric cafes, The Dark Gallery. The confections are made with high-quality European milk and French butter, cooked and cooled before being hand-cut and wrapped.

A festive special is Vanilla Spice, which screams Christmas with its blend of Madagascar vanilla and aromatic spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. The regular line-up of six flavours include roasted pecan, pink salt, raspberry rose, Earl grey, and coffee. The boxes of caramel ($12 to $36) come in an assortment of flavours. 

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5. Cedric Grolet Singapore’s Buches de Noel

French pastry chef-turned-social media sensation Cedric Grolet is known for his fruit-shaped trompe-l’œil confections, and he has created a delightful platter of them in his take of a Christmas logcake. Simply called Signature Fruits, the vanilla block is sandwiched with tart lemon, orange and grapefruit filling and crisp Japanese citrus biscuit. Topping it off is a gorgeous spread of ‘fruit’ - oranges, lemons, apples and more - all filled with fresh marmalade. Grolet has also rolled out a flower version of the logcake emblazoned with cream, white orange flowers and filled with tropical flavours like coconut, passionfruit, mango and lime.

 
Besides the logcakes, there are also six cakes that are part of his Winter Collection. Highlights include the Christmas Red Flower, which is impeccably piped into a rose petal with intricate folds. The petal is actually chocolate vanilla ganache that eleantly plied on chocolate dough, cocoa nib praline, vanilla gel and chocolate sponge. The Chestnut is a chestnut-shaped confection interpretation of peanut butter and blackcurrant jelly sandwich. 

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6. Laderach’s Christmas Delights

Swiss chocolate maker Laderach, which made it cool to eat chocolate bars by the shard, has a couple of festive treats to bring festivities to a chocolate high. New treats include the Christmas Figurines that double up as edible baubles on a Christmas tree, which come in the shapes of snowman, santa claus and reindeer, crafted with dark gianduja, milk and white chocolate.

Other treats include gingerbread-flavoured popcorn and pralines that are shaped like stars and fir tree cones. These Christmas goodies, which make perfect sweet endings to this season’s trail of belly-bursting meals, are also available in various Chocolate Christmas Chest boxes. Its festive version of FrischSchoggi shards of chocolate come in gingerbread milk chocolate and pumpkin spiced milk chocolate with caramel chocolate swirls. 

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7. Royal Salute 24 Year-Old Cognac Cask Finish

Blended Scotch whisky brand Royal Salute has released its inaugural cognac cask-finished whisky, the 24-Year Old Cognac Cask Finish, which is only available in Asia. Designed to appeal to the Asian palate, the whisky boasts a  blend of fruity, spicy and toasty notes 

After 24 years of being aged in a cognac cask, the prized gold-copper whisky gives off aromas of dark cherries and toasted oak layered with marzipan, rich caramelised figs and peaches in syrup.

The maturation of the 24-Year Old Cognac Cask Finish in first fill-cognac casks has yielded fruity flavours with a complex depth, such as summer berry compote and apricot jam and creamy caramel, with a hint of a spicy finish. The Scotch is housed in a flagon glazed in a striking red hue that screams auspiciousness. 

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8. Hennessy X.O Limited Edition Collaboration with artist Jean-Michel Othoniel

Cognac house Hennessy has teamed up with acclaimed artist Jean-Michel Othoniel for an artistically sculptural take on creations such as the Hennessy X.O Masterpiece and the Hennessy X.O Limited Edition. The French artist is renowned for his monumental sculptures and hand-blown glass artworks. The design of Othoniel’s X.O Masterpiece decanter blends tradition and innovation, and weaves in his artistic take on light and reflection. The bottle is also beautifully adorned with ornate crafting and details. A visually-arresting addition to shelves, indeed. 

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