Available exclusively from Harrods.
Christmas has come early to our house.
A few days ago (on my 40th birthday, in fact!) I took delivery of the most posh collection of festive foodstuffs to ever cross the threshold of our house. When this arrived I truly felt I’d made it in the world of a professional food blogger.
I am on Harrods radar – and they’ve just sent me a hamper of awesome food! Heaven!
Established in 1824 by 25 year old Charles Henry Harrods, the current Harrods department store, on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, occupies a 20,000 square metre site and features over 300 different departments.
With a motto of Omnia Omnibus Ubique (all things for all people. everywhere), this store really does have something for everyone. Their seasonal Christmas department is one of their most well known and their Christmas hampers range from the more affordable A Christmas Classic at £25 to the more extravagant The Decadence, at £20,000!
Established in 1981, Cartwright & Butler is a purveyor of fine foods, gifts and luxury hampers with a quintessentially British character. They ensure that all of their products use only the finest of ingredients so you can be assured of a traditional, homemade taste and a sense of luxury with every single bite.
Cartwright & Butler: The Harrogate Christmas Hamper
Packed into a pastel blue white-washed wicker trunk, the exclusive to Harrods Cartwright & Butler Harrogate Christmas Hamper is an elegant ode to Christmas entertaining, laden with jams and chutney, biscuits, crackers, tea and coffee. The hamper itself is huge – measuring 22 inches wide, 14.5 inches deep and 17.5 inches at its highest point and comes tied with a gorgeous Harrods printed ribbon.
Unpacking the hamper was a great pleasure. I love the colour of the hamper itself, which matches the colour and style of the treats inside. I also love the vintage, almost steampunk, detail on the Cartwright & Butler packaging. Each product is a visual and culinary work of art.
SWEETS, CAKES & BISCUITS
This hamper contained a gorgeous assortment of sweet things from chocolate wafer fingers (I’m scoffing these as I type), chocolate wafer rounds, caramel syrup waffles (my daughter’s favourite), salted caramel fudge, butter fudge, dark chocolate coated ginger cookies, butterscotch crunch cookies, cranberry crumbles, butter thins with almonds and a 600 gram decorated fruit cake in a lovely reusable pastel painted gift tin.
200 grams of demerara shortbread rounds and strawberry & white chocolate chunk biscuits both come packaged in gorgeous reusable tins.
CRACKERS & SAVOURY SNACKS
Designed for sharing, this hamper comes with everything you’ll need to serve with a cheese board or savoury snack table while entertaining this holiday season. Items include Cheddar cheese biscuits in a reusable tin, linseed and sesame seed flat breads, tomato and black olive bread thins, Gouda cheese twists, cheese biscuits and Roquefort cheese melts.
HONEY & PRESERVES
The jams, chutney and condiments included with this hamper all come in attractive glass jars with ceramic lids. These include mint sauce, English mustard, raspberry preserve, three fruit marmalade, onion chutney and hot Piccalilli. There is also a large piece of acacia honeycomb in a lovely painted reusable tin.
TEA & COFFEE
Fifteen whole leaf tea bags of both the classic Earl Grey and English breakfast teas are included in this hamper as well as 227 grams of each Cafe York Blend Coffee and After Dinner Blend Coffee. The coffees both come in lovely reusable gold coloured tins.
EXTRA GIFT
This hamper comes with a very attractive Lytton House acacia wood cheese board cut so that the bark is still showing on the two long sides. Inset with a removable piece of quality slate this hand made rustic serving board comes with two cheese knives and a fork server.
The Harrogate Christmas Hamper retails for £250 and it is available exclusively from Harrods. In fact, it features in their Style Insider as one of the Top 5 Christmas Hampers this year.
With great thanks to Harrods for the opportunity to review this item. This is not a paid post and all thoughts and opinions expressed are our own.
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I had some of Shetland’s finest Mirrie dancer chocolates and chorcas for christmas and now you have Cartwright and Butler goodies from my neck of the woods! Spooky!!!! The Cartwright and Butler goodies are soooo delish but the tins themselves are also a lovely useful thing to keep and re use for your own homemade cookies etc. I’m pleased you enjoyed the treats from God’s own county!
I never heard of this before and it looks really interesting for me. Thanks for this post
Lucky You! I would absolutely love to receive this hamper!
XO, MJ
This looks like the definition of yum! I love all the photos you included!
Each treat looks amazing! I would like to try this out for myself.
xoxo
Isaly Holland
http://www.memoriesbyisaly.com
I’ve never heard of this brand but everything looks so yummy!
I know close friends and family who would love to receive this for Christmas! They have amazing items that are all so useful!
One such hamper from Cartwright and Butler is a beautiful gift idea and the goodies are quiet amazing for sure. With cookies, sweets, tea and everything this is a dream package that I would love to get right away!
Now that’s an hamper I would be more than happy to accept!
these all look delicious! These would be perfect for christmas presents.
Oo everything looks so good! I’d enjoy this!
I want all from the hamper under my Christmas tree! The butterscotch crunch and coffee are right up my alley. Awesome photos! Looks so festive and full of great cheer! Happy holiday to you and yours!
If I had all of these, my coffee table would clearly be served as a holder for these treats every day instead of books. Butterscotch cookies, mmm! Happy birthday, and may you have more wonderful days ahead of you!
This hamper looks awesome! I love everything that is included here and those biscuits look amazing.
This hamper is absolutely perfect to gift someone with, and I love every single goody in it!
This Cartwright and Butler Hamper is just irresistibly delicious. Everything looks amazing. I have been getting into natural honey and honey combs. Its so cool that they include the acacia honeycomb.
I yous love the photos. I want all products from the firs image, love their labels and colors. I bet the products are delicious as well
I wish I could claim the images as my own, but they’re all from either Harrods or Cartright & Butler directly. There’s no way my photos would have done the hamper justice!
Totally love Harrods Harrogate hamper and all the amazing goodies! I would love to try the cookies because i have such a sweet tooth 🙂
That hamper is absolutely gorgeous and filled with so many wonderful products. What a fantastic gift this would make.
That’s a lot of awesome stuff in one box! I’m sure you had a great time trying all those treats out. I hope you had an amazing birthday! You deserve it!
This looks like an amazing hamper! I’m definitely wishing I had one of these in my house right now!
Happy birthday! I love the hamper that you have. It is really nice looking. The other gits sound amazing too!
I love crackers and good spreads!
These hampers look so amazing! All of the items sound amazing, especially the butterscotch crunch.
Happy belated Birthday! That hamper looks delicious, Harrods and Fortnums have the best Hampers!
Happy belated birthday! So lucky of you to get this from Harrods 🙂 Lovely pictures!
Wow what a treat, this looks so luxurious and delicious. Definitely something I’d love to buy my mum or for myself. That camembert looks divine! x
What a lovely hamper to get, and on your birthday too. Hope it was a lovely day 🙂
Christmas is totally the time for rich, luxury foods and these really fit the bill.
Oh wow! It would be a perfect gift for me.
What a lovely hamper, it would made a lovely present.
I do love a good food hamper. If only I could afford this one x
That looks like an amazing hamper, happy belated birthday, all of the food sounds delicious, although i’m not sure how long it would last in this house!
I love a good food hamper!!! I would love something like this but its quite pricy and after christmas shopping I don’t think my bank balance could quite cope!
Oh wow! Very posh! We’d love to get a hamper like this which is jam packed with goodies!
To be honest I would just buy it for the pretty pastel blue wicker basket. The honey and preserves looks lovely !
Oh wow, what an amazing hamper and so many goodies in it. I am definitely so jealous of your hamper. I do love Harrods and pop in once a year – boxing day
One thing I would love to receive is a Hamper, one item I have never had a gift and yet they all just look so amazing and this is just divine x
This looks like a gorgeous hamper, I would love to get one of those for Christmas. It seems to have a good selection of products and those biscuits sound divine 😉
oh wow my parents would just love to receive one of these it looks and sounds amazing and would make a beautiful xmas gift for sure
Damn that looks like an amazing hamper!! I love cheese so that would’ve been my favourite item! Happy Belated Birthday too 🙂
Oh wow what a gorgeous looking hamper! I tend to get hampers for my parents each year as they love trying new bits x
What an amazing hamper. Loving the goodies here.
Harrods stock some beautiful hampers. This looks like the perfect luxury hamper for foodies.
This hamper is full of everything anyone could possibly love. All those biscuits and cheeses, jams and chutney. Oh my goodness!
I absolutely love butterscotch biscuits. They remind me of good memories from one of the first time I came to England. They taste lovely and the ones you have look definitely tasty!
Mika
This hamper looks amazing!! I really like the look and sound of those butterscotch crunch biscuits!
Happy birthday for a few days ago. This hamper looks absolutely insane, such a lot of items in there x
Oh awesome! This is a great Hamper. The crackers and savoury snacks are right up my street! Also love that it comes with a wood cheese board! Lovely post, thank you for sharing xx
Happy Birthday! What a gift! This is hamper Heaven. I’d expect nothing less. I could eat all of it now and I know some people who would love this. Is the hamper box itself reusable? x
This is a gorgeous hamper and filled with such lovely and delicious items. That cheese board is beautiful! How wonderful that you received this on your birthday!
This hamper looks amazing. Such great contents. I love hampers and would be very happy if someone brought me this as a present 🙂
Oh my days! That has got to be the best hamper ever, how lovely is this?!
Happy belated birthday too 🙂 x
What an amazing hamper, and so lovely to get it on your birthday. It is sensational!
Oh my gosh, this is like my dream hamper, I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED one. I think OH would hve the cheese and crackers, and i would have the butterscotch crunch and cheese board (handy blog prop 🙂 .
Enjoy your hamper Lady.
First and foremost happy belated birthday!! 40 is the new 20 and secondly what an amazing hamper you was given by Harrods. The cheeseboard alone sounds magnificent. X