Bakers across India launch stollens, panettones, and toffee hampers this Christmas
The Hindu
Choose from a stollen that matures with time, fruit cakes, rum ball baubles, and DIY hot chocolate kits for your gifting hampers this season. The Farm Chennai, Pumpkin tales, Maska Bakery, Sapa Bakery, Pandhal, Petite Pie
The Farm, Chennai
If you are looking for a cake sans alcohol, Shalini Philip and her team are back with their traditional Christmas fruit cake (₹900 for 500 gms) made with currants, raisins, sultanas, candied fruit and peel, glazed cherries, and almonds. Other products from their festive catalogue include the Box of Baubles (₹550 for 250 gms) with their toffees in flavours of coffee hazelnut, sea salt, and roasted peanut; a Poinsettia Coffee Package (upwards of ₹1,250) with handcrafted coffee mugs from Golden Bridge Pottery, shakkar, etc.; Christmas Bundles (from ₹1,450) with assorted toffee, fruit cake, etc.; and the Christmassy Afternoon Hamper (₹4,000) has the Christmas fruit cake, box of baubles, apple and cinnamon jam, salted caramel spread, an assorted cookie box, among other treats.
All boxes barring the cheese box can be shipped across India. To order, WhatsApp 9384677571
Pumpkin Tales, Chennai
This year, Chef Chindi Varadarajulu is retailing an assorted cookie box (₹550) of sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, and butter cookies; a chocolate cupcake box (₹500) with coffee, mixed berry, salted caramel, and vanilla frosting; a Christmas dessert box (₹1,250) comprising baked chocolate mousse, passionfruit and mango cheesecake, peanut florentine, pista cherry roulade; reindeer cake (₹4,750), and a pista berry Yule log (₹1,750).
If you are looking at shipping treats to loved ones, there is a classic plum cake (₹1,182) “crafted from a cherished family recipe with fruits macerated for three months”, and a panettone in two flavours: the classic (₹990) and chocolate (₹1,190) — both are available on amazon.in. The latter is a dome shaped, light and fluffy Italian Christmas bread, studded with candied orange, raisins and chocolate.
Pumpkin Tales is at Bheemanna Garden Street, Sriram Colony, Alwarpet.
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