00:00The good folk at booths have sent me Elfid Parcel. I barely dare say it but it's a sneaky peek at
00:15their Christmas range. I've not opened it, it's quite loosely wrapped so I've got an idea of
00:21what's in it. I'm going to open it now and we'll go through it but Christmas at booths is a big
00:26thing. Lots of people look forward to the Christmas booths book coming out, their party things, their
00:32special seasonal foods and little gifts and things that they do. So let's get into it and see what we
00:40can look forward to. That's what the package looks like. I'm going to open it and see what we've got.
00:48Right, ooh. Enjoy a glimpse into Christmas at booths for 2025. Yes. Right, ooh. Immediately I can smell the coffee.
01:02So we've got some coffee that I'll give a go. Ooh, some chocolates. All chocolates. Oh, what does it say?
01:10Chocolate and biscuit pudding balls and booths Black Forest Bites. Right, okay. We'll get them out.
01:21English breakfast. Well, I don't actually have anything to prepare that in so I'm not going to be able to
01:27try that. Oops. And when I pick it up off the floor, we've got a little sneak peek of the booths book
01:36but I'll go through that in better detail later on. So this is a little glance at what's to come from
01:43the booths Christmas book. As we have come to expect. Beautifully presented. Great photos.
01:55It seems that they've teamed up now with some other businesses. So that's Girl Gone Wild.
02:01So these are dishes from a particular company. That has happened before, I believe.
02:09Look at these desserts. Wow, what is that? Actually, what is that? It's usually they have like a number
02:16that you can go, oh yeah, that's 1A and then you can look at the description. But I don't actually know
02:21what that is. It looks like some kind of cheesecake. Maybe it's this loaded raspberry blondie cheesecake,
02:2824 pounds. So yeah, I mean, some things in here are not, they're not cheap, but that doesn't mean
02:36that they're not value because they could be amazing. And then there's some cardholder prices
02:42here, look. So there are deals to be had. Oh, you can order the cakes. Some of this stuff
02:51will be order. Ooh, there's booze. There's booze. Recommendations for drinks. Oh, what is that?
02:59Oh, wow. That looks like an enormous sausage roll with some chutney in the middle. Look at that.
03:08But again, what is it? Or is it the Wagyu beef bourguignon? Do you know what? I don't know
03:18what that is, but it looks amazing. Anyway, this is all just stuff that is just quite,
03:28it's fine food, but it's, it's quite unique, isn't it? Oh, look there. Read more in the
03:35Booth Christmas book out on the 9th of October. Right. So yeah, as I was saying, it's all kind
03:42of like special stuff that we don't get throughout the year. Cheeses, entertaining. There's stuff
03:49about crackers in there, I'm sure. Wow. Look at these. Oh, these are cute. Oh, these are
03:56nice with children, aren't they? Enchanted forest cake. I mean, that just sounds nice. I bet
04:01that, I bet that's that. And then we've got, oh, don't tell Marks and Spencers. What's that
04:07one called? Searching for it. Shirley the Sheep. That's 20 quid, that one. And we've got
04:17some brownies. We've got, oh, these are nice little, um, little cakes. Oh, it's, it's all
04:23just lovely, isn't it? I think that's what we get from Christmas at Booth's. It's lovely.
04:27It's nice and fancy. It's kind of traditional, but not always traditional because look, you've
04:34got some vegetarian stuff in here. You've got some fusion flavors, but look at that.
04:44Photographed beautifully. Anyway, so that's a little sneaky peek. What I'm going to get
04:48into now is this cafe blend. I was thinking, why is this Christmassy? But then I realized
04:53if you read the description, hints of dark chocolate and tangerine. So that's quite kind
04:59of Christmassy flavors. And then these bad boys, not going to eat all of them, but I will
05:03try them and I will tell you what it's like. So off to get my cafetiere and get this cafe
05:09blend on the gun. While I'm waiting for the coffee to do its thing in the cafetiere, um,
05:14which by the way, I've had to buy especially. And you can't buy cafetiers in booths. So
05:19just, just to note booths. Um, I'm going to try these. So this is the, oh, it's kind of
05:25glittery. I don't know if you can see that. It's really sparkly, pink and sparkly on the top.
05:29So that is the black forest bite. So that's, I'm assuming that's going to be kind of rich,
05:34opulent chocolate and cherries. Um, and this is the big chocolate biscuit bite pudding.
05:41So it looks like a Christmas pudding. It's very cute. Again, it's got some kind of silver
05:44glitter on it and some little sprinkles. So I'm not going to eat all of these,
05:53but that's what's on the inside of the, uh, the chocolate pudding balls. So it looks really quite
05:58dense, but to break it up, we've got some, what looks like kind of crispy biscuity things. So
06:04I'll do the smaller one first. So of course it's Christmas. It's very rich. It looked dense. It
06:11was dense, but actually those, the ample number actually of, um, biscuits, um, in it, the crunch,
06:20it really does break it up. Um, it's, it's luxurious. It's, you wouldn't want too many of them,
06:28but very, very nice. Um, they look cute cause you eat your eyes, don't you? Um, I think one of them
06:35would be enough for me with like a brew or whatever, but you might want more. Um, rich chocolate,
06:42milk chocolate, but also you are getting that white chocolate on the top. Um, there's not much
06:46to say about them other than, yeah, they're flipping delicious. Those are, um, so what about
06:52these cherry ones? Let's see if I can get any different flavors. Cause they look kind of similar
06:57consistency and makeup, but let's see. I actually prefer these. Not that there was anything wrong
07:03with the balls, but it's just more interesting that it's not really you can see, but they again
07:09are dense and squidgy with the, with the crispier bits of biscuit in, but there's also a layer of,
07:17well, I think it's raisin. Um, I don't think it's cherry. Um, could be wrong, but I don't think it is.
07:23Um, just to see what it says. No, it doesn't say about cherries. It says nuts and peanuts. Well,
07:34I'm not getting nuts or peanuts. Um, what I am getting is like a tiffin flavor. Um,
07:42like a rocky road, almost that, that kind of vibe to this really nice, actually. I could probably eat
07:48more than one of these. Um, I'm not getting a very strong cherry taste. There is a hint of it,
07:53of the black forest. Not very strong, but indulgent, lovely little treats. Yeah. So they're really nice.
08:01Right. Onto the coffee, just to cleanse my palate.
08:08Right. Done the, um, done the coffee. I don't know whether I've made it right, to be honest, because
08:15I'm usually an instant girl. Um, I've not added anything other than milk into this. Um,
08:22I've had a quick taste and, um, I think I probably should have put a little bit more of the ground
08:29coffee and that that's on me. Um, but I can definitely get the dark chocolate notes that it
08:35refers to. Um, when I first smelt, when I first opened the package and I was like, wow, what's that smell?
08:41It's that kind of homely rich. I could smell the chocolate element of it there. Um, so I'm not
08:46just saying that because I read the label, um, the tangerine and not so much. Um, maybe that's my
08:52palette. I don't know. Um, but it's smooth, um, quite deep. It's, it's just, it complements the chocolate,
09:01um, little treats very nicely. Um, it's a very nice coffee. What can I say? Um, it says full bodied.
09:10Yeah, it's smooth. It's full bodied. Um, notes of chocolate. What, I mean, what else can I say?
09:16It's a nice cup of coffee with a great smell.
