Five new food trends that you HAVE to include in your Christmas Day feast
| 5th November 2018
With Black Friday only a few weeks away and Christmas around the corner, we have turned our attention to some of the most talked about Christmas trends in the foodie world this year.
- Footlong Pigs in Blankets – Aldi
The much-loved pigs in blankets are even bigger and better this year. With Aldi leading the way, they have created a footlong version of pigs in blankets.
- Heston Profiter’coals – Waitrose
Heston Blumenthal does it again! This year your guests can enjoy black profiterole ‘coals’ with a flame-coloured mandarin orange crème pâtissière filling are drizzled with a warmed smoked orange caramel sauce and scattered with popping candy.
- Chocolate & Caramel Gingerbread Man – ASDA
This year’s trending indulgent ingredient is salted caramel. ASDA’s Chocolate & Caramel Gingerbread Man is sculptured out of sweet chocolate mousse, laid on a biscuit and caramel base and coated in white chocolate and bronze shimmer.
- Hortus Spiced Plum and Cinnamon Gin Liqueur – LIDL
As 2018 saw a rocket in gin sales, this Christmas is no different. Leading the way with Christmas gin this year with its premium Hortus Spiced Plum and Cinnamon Gin Liqueur, Lidl has the perfect mulled wine, gin alternative.
- Cauliflower Wellington – Tesco
Tesco’s vegan cauliflower Wellington is returning this year, featuring a whole turmeric-spiced cauliflower with a butternut squash and minced mushroom stuffing flavoured with red wine, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, all wrapped up in a flaky golden puff pastry.