With less than 90 days to go, you just know when we heard the news about what Marks and Spencer’s had to offer in terms of food, drinks and gifts for Christmas this year - we just had to share! And one of the many items that caught our eye, and our mouth watering was the limited edition Colin the Caterpillar cake!
Yes our favourite chocolate caterpillar has got his skates on, literally! The classic, extremely chocolatey sponge roll with chocolate buttercream, covered in milk chocolate and finished with edible festive decorations is the perfect addition to your Christmas celebrations. As after all…what’s a Christmas without Colin?!
And that’s not the only showstopper that’s got our attention, but check out the Helter Skelter Cake for £25! A light, fluffy Madeira sponge, filled with sweet raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream. But this isn’t just any cake… It’s an M&S Helter Skelter Cake - topped with a white chocolate helter-skelter dome and edible snowballs that slide down from the top! Remove the dome to shatter and share, revealing a chocolate winter wonderland inside. It’s almost too good to eat… We said almost!
The fun doesn’t stop there as M&S’s Christmas Food to Order service launches today - so shoppers can fill their (online) baskets with over 110 showstoppers, including online exclusives you won’t want to miss! Plus with a £40 deposit, customers can plan and spread the cost of Christmas, paying the remaining balance upon collection in store. Pretty handy, right?
You’ll also find perfected classics across M&S Foodhalls - including an incredible Collection Slow Cooked Turkey Crown, cooking in just over an hour! Usually found in high-end restaurants, this ‘first on the high-street' is a Christmas gamechanger and means our customers can say goodbye to ‘turkey terror’ and spend all-important time with loved ones on Christmas morning. In fact, our experts have created a whopping 13 slow cooked showstoppers to make Christmas easier than ever for customers this year.
And, even better for the families, M&S have made selecting that perfect gift more affordable with the biggest ever range of ‘£5 and under gifting’.
It’s clear customers are already getting very excited about the festivities with Christmas searches on M&S.com already hitting over 160k and Facebook reporting a 206% increase on Christmas searches in August!
The M&S experts have been working around the clock to deliver the most spectacular range of festive favourites for customers to enjoy – including over 450 new and upgraded products, offering the very best of M&S Food!
Kathryn Turner, Head of Ambient Product Development at M&S Food said: “Great value gifts are going to be more important than ever this year, and we have a huge selection for £5 and under, including irresistible Collection Going Gnome for Christmas Belgian milk chocolates and an adorable Percy Piggie Bank Post Box filled with chocolate pennies. We have looked at prices across our entire range to make sure customer are getting trusted M&S value with every shop... as well as the M&S magic everyone wants under their tree.”
We’ve naturally picked out a few of our favourites - which you can find above, but you can get your stomach rumbling and mouth salivating over all of Marks and Spencer’s Christmas Food To Order right here.
Have you started any Christmas shopping yet? What do you think about spreading the cost of your Christmas meal at Marks and Spencer? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
