Christmas 2023: New product launches for the festive season

Find out the latest product launches in the world of food, drink and hospitality kit for Christmas 2023

Where did the year go! The festive season is almost upon us and you can jazz up your offering for the holidays with some new launches, from cocktails to Christmas cake-flavoured ice cream.

Find out the latest product launches for September 2023 below.

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• New food products for Christmas 2023
• New drink products for Christmas 2023
• New equipment for Christmas 2023

New food products for Christmas 2023

Just Desserts festive range

Just Desserts has unwrapped its festive desserts range, including a spice caramel apple crumble, a gingerbread cheesecake, made with a spiced ginger biscuit base and a white chocolate and ginger ganache topping, and a mince pie franzipan, with a butter pastry case filled with mincemeat, topped with franzipan sponge and finished with sugar snow.

Price: From £1.99

Website: www.just-desserts.co.uk

New Forest Ice Cream Christmas Pudding ice-cream

New Forest Ice Cream is launching its Christmas Pudding ice-cream. The new festive recipe combines whole milk and double cream which is blended with warming notes of brandy and spiced fruit.

Price: 2.4 litre tub, £12.50

Website: www.newforesticecream.com

Piglet’s Pantry Christmas range

Piglet’s Pantry has launched its Christmas range, including port and cranberry sausage rolls, goat’s cheese and onion quiches and turkey and cranberry pies. Its sweet range includes salted caramel pinecones, Christmas tree blondies and brownies, and nut-free reindeer ‘mockarons’.

Price: From 77p. Minimum order of £250

Website: www.pigletspantry.co.uk

Yorvale’s Prosecco sorbet

Q Catering is supplying Yorvale’s Prosecco sorbet this festive season. Each scoop offers a refreshing sweetness combined with a velvety texture and bubbly notes, making it a suitable palate cleanser or celebratory treat.

Price: 2-litre tub, £9.99

Website: www.qcatering.co.uk

New drinks for Christmas 2023

Monin spiced red berries syrup

Monin has launched a spiced red berries syrup, infused with red berries, ginger and clove, making it a suitable choice for winter cocktails, mocktails, coffee and chocolate-based drinks.

Price: 70cl bottle, £10.48

Website: www.monin1912.com

Cranes’ mulled cider

Cranes’ mulled cider is a blend of its apple cider with festive flavours of cranberries, oranges and cinnamon. The cider is made in Cambridgeshire by co-founders and twin brothers Ben and Dan Ritsema.

Price: 10-litre bag in a box, £46

Website: www.drinkcranes.co.uk

Lancaster Spirits festive gin

Lancaster Spirits has launched its festive gin, ready for the party season. The mandarin and ginger gin (40% ABV) combines citrus flavours with gingery spice and can be enjoyed with tonic, in a festive fizz cocktail, or added to hot drinks such as hot chocolate or a gin hot toddy.

Price: £23 per 50cl bottle in a case of six

Website: www.lancasterspirits.co.uk

Jolly Saint Nico

Jolly Saint Nico is the gluten-free festive edition of south London brewery Orbit Beers’ lager Nico. With the addition of winter flavours such as nutmeg and cinnamon, the lightly carbonated beer (4.8% ABV) can be paired with Christmas dinners or accompany cheese boards and mince pies.

Price: 30-litre keg, £96.73; 24 x 330ml bottles, £40.41

Website: orbitbeers.shop

New equipment for Christmas 2023

Peugot salt and pepper mills

Peugot has launched the Paris u’Select wooden salt and pepper mills, in forest green and passion red gloss. The 18cm mills are equipped with Peugot’s patented u’Select grind adjustment system and will enhance a festive table setting.

Price: £31.79

Website: uk.peugeot-saveurs.com