Watch as I take a sneak peek at Booths Christmas 2025 goodies - including chocolate treats and coffee

Yes, we’re in the ‘ber months now, and apparently the countdown to Christmas has begun. If you’re in Booths country, you know it’s really on its way when the Booths Christmas book - full of seasonal goodies -appears in huge piles by the foyer.

Well, I didn’t need to wait until the offical unveiling on October 9, as some lovely elves at the family-run grocers sent me an early gift this week.

A gold-wrapped parcel gave me a tiny glimpse at what’s to come in shops - and it’s going to be fabulous.

Inside my package was a smaller-than-usual Christmas book containing all of the seasonal treats, some loose leaf English breakfast tea, roast and ground coffee, and some Christmas-themed chocolate treats.

I will just say that I had no suitable vestible to enjoy the tea, but I did go out and buy a cafetiere for the coffee. Now, it doesn’t say it’s Christmas coffee specifically, but promises notes of dark chocolate and tangerine, which I think can pass as festive. Clearly, I’m not a connoisseur, but let me tell you, I did enjoy it. Rich, smooth, with a bitterness I am putting down to the chocolate tones, it was a winner. The tangerine business didn’t really come through for me, but perhaps I needed to make it stronger, or perhaps I just have an unsophisticated palette.

The coffee beautifully complimented the chocolate treats - Christmas pudding-shaped biscuit balls, and Black Forest bites. Both of them were cutely decorated with sprinkles and glitter, and both were dense, moist and rich - as you’d expect. To break up the texture, there were little nuggets of crunchy bicuit, and in the Black Forest ones - which didn’t taste too cherry-ey - some raisins. They’re novel, indulgent and just right to compliment a brew.

And the book...well..beautifully put together as always. The photos of mouth-watering seasonal novelties and extravagant feasts really get the imagination going. I’ve already decided I want a loaded raspberry blondie cheesecake and what looked like an enormous ring of sausage roll. It’s Christmas, it would be rude not to...

See my video on the unveiling above.