GREAT FOODS MAKE THE HOLIDAYS EVEN MORE MERRY & BRIGHT
Christmas is almost here, and we all know that that means: It’s time to trim the tree, buy some gifts, and get down to the serious business of eating all kinds of festive foods. Food seems to be omnipresent during the Christmas season: Nibbling some cookies while decorating the tree and wrapping presents, waking up on Christmas morning to a big breakfast, enjoying a celebratory feast on Christmas Eve or the night of.
But Christmas foods aren’t just for treating yourself; they also make for great gifts. And we’re not just talking about sending someone a box of grapefruits; thanks to Goldbelly, beautiful, festive, and seriously delicious food gifts from America’s top restaurants and food makers – from complete dinners from Michelin-starred restaurants to jaw-dropping limited-edition cakes – are shipping nationwide.
Christmas Breakfast & Brunch
Kelly Fields’ Southern Biscuit Brunch & Bloody Mary Kit
Kelly Fields is one of America’s most exciting Southern chefs, winning the prestigious 2019 James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef for their former bakery & restaurant, New Orleans’ Willa Jean. These big & fluffy buttermilk biscuits arrive ready-to-bake, along with creamy pimento cheese, honey butter, homemade raspberry jam, and Chef Kelly’s spicy Bloody Mary mix!
Ess-a-Bagel’s NYC Bagel Brunch
Ess-a-Bagel’s giant bagels are quintessential New York. Known for their chewy, crusty bagels and wide range of creative spreads, Ess-a’s hand-rolled bagels keep regular customers coming back week after week. This kit includes your choice of 12 bagels (with 6 extra for free!), nova lox, and cream cheese.
Flour Bakery’s Bake-at-Home Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls
Widely regarded as one of the very best bakeries in America, Boston’s iconic Flour Bakery + Cafe is the creation of legendary pastry chef Joanne Chang, who won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2016. Bake her iconic brown butter cinnamon rolls up in your oven, frost them with the included sweet cream cheese glaze, and indulge in one of the most delicious treats on earth!
Brique French Toastery’s Famous Brique French Toast
Invented by Racquel “Chef Rocky” Rockquemore-Breiz while serving as personal chef for Dwayne Johnson in 2020, these colossal slabs of French toast went viral after he shared his love for them on Instagram. All you need to do is give it a quick reheat and top with a variety of garnishes including Signature Peanut Butter Coconut Maple Syrup, Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream, and oven Toasted Coconut Chips.
The Model Bakery’s English Muffin Bakery Sampler
A Napa landmark, The Model Bakery is most famous for its legendary English muffins, which start with an airy, focaccia-style dough that’s rolled out, dusted with cornmeal, and griddle-fried in clarified butter until puffy and golden brown on both sides. This breakfast bundle partners them up with house-made strawberry jam, house-made granola, and proprietary blend coffee.
Christmas Dinners
Ilili’s Lebanese Braised Lamb Shank Dinner Kit
Since it first opened its doors in New York’s Flatiron neighborhood in 2007, the elegant and upscale ilili has introduced countless New Yorkers to authentic Lebanese cuisine. To make this popular dish, lamb is slowly braised with Levantine aromatics, and is served with traditional Lebanese dirty rice, roasted vegetables, pita & hummus, harissa, and a side of cucumber yogurt.
Blue Ribbon’s Fried Chicken Dinner
Since Blue Ribbon opened in New York in 1992, it’s become one of the city’s top destinations for American comfort food, and this fried chicken is their best-selling dish. It’s crispy, crunchy, and juicy, and this kit partners it up with creamy mashed potatoes, sautéed collard greens, chicken gravy, and wildflower honey.
Cochon Butcher’s Holiday Ham Dinner
Cochon Butcher, a hybrid New Orleans butcher shop/restaurant opened in 2009, is home to some of the Crescent City’s best house-made charcuterie and creative sandwiches. Their housemade baked ham is glazed with Louisiana Steen’s cane syrup & whole grain mustard glaze, and it’s served alongside traditional bacon braised greens, baked mac & cheese, and buttery dinner rolls to sop up the juices.
Commander’s Palace Holiday Turkey Dinner
Located in the heart of New Orleans’ Garden District, Commander’s Palace has been serving its famous Haute Creole cuisine since 1893 and is quite possibly the city’s most famous and influential restaurant. This family-size kit includes signature smoked herb butter-injected turkey, with molasses & sea salt whipped sweet potatoes and smoked tasso & andouille stuffing on the side, and a whole pecan pie for dessert.
Sparks Steak House’s Prime Sirloin Steak Dinner Kit
For more than 50 years, Sparks Steak House has represented the gold standard in iconic New York City steakhouses, and this steakhouse feast is fit for a king, with four 18-ounce Prime sirloin steaks accompanied by creamed spinach and hash brown potatoes, with New York cheesecake for dessert.
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Christmas Cakes
Blue Owl Bakery’s Yule Log Cake
Layers of moist chocolate cake wrap around creamy chocolate mousse to form this delightful holiday treat from the landmark Missouri bakery. Decorated in chocolate buttercream and topped with beautiful poinsettias to complete this traditional log!
Ina Garten’s Signature Coconut Cake
From one of the most trusted and beloved names in food, Ina Garten’s snow-white coconut layer cake is layered with cream cheese icing and coated in shredded coconut, and is guaranteed to be a centerpiece your guests will go crazy for. A hint of almond extract really puts it over the top.
Duff Goldman’s Chocolate Peppermint Snowman Cake
If you’ve spent any time watching Food Network over the past decade, then you know Duff Goldman and his legendary cakes. Special for Christmas, this chocolate cake is filled with crushed peppermint buttercream filling and topped with white buttercream frosting, a fondant snowman face including a red fondant nose, black eyes and mouth, a light blue hat, and a red pom-pom!
Junior’s Strawberry Christmas Cheesecake
Famous since the day they opened in 1950, Junior’s is a Brooklyn landmark that’s most famous for its legendary creamy cheesecakes. This special-edition cheesecake is swirled with real strawberry puree, baked in a graham cracker crust, decorated with a buttery cream cheese mousse, and finished with festive red and green quins.
Carousel Cakes’ Holiday Red Velvet Cake
Carousel Cakes’ recipe for success may be straightforward, but it’s also nearly impossible to duplicate: First-class ingredients, five decades of expert baking skills, and the extra effort of mixing everything by hand. Smooth as velvet, this rich mild chocolate flavored cake in a perfectly beautiful shade of rich red is topped with a pure thick creamy cheese cake frosting and holiday decor.
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Christmas Cookies
Veniero’s Italian Cookie Tray
More than 125 years since its opening, Veniero’s Pasticceria & Caffé is still owned by the Veniero family, and it’s a true East Village landmark and one of New York’s only remaining old-world Italian bakeries. This celebratory cookie tray contains an assortment of pignoli cookies, jelly-filled butter cookies, rainbow cookies, chocolate dipped rolled wafer cookies, chocolate dipped butter fingers with raspberry jam, and Linzer cookies.
Kreuther Chocolate’s Assorted Holiday Cookie Sandwiches
Since 2016, Michelin-starred chef Gabriel Kreuther and acclaimed pastry chef and Master Chocolatier Marc Aumont have been taking the art of chocolate to the next level with Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate. These classic spiced shortbread cookies are filled with a white chocolate winter citrus ganache with notes of cinnamon and ginger, blended with orange and lemon zest and topped with festive decoration.
Flour Bakery’s Melting Snowman Cookie Kit
Also from the Boston landmark, this Decorate-Your-Own Snowman Cookie Kit! includes everything you need to decorate this bakery favorite holiday cookie at home. The cookies are pre-baked, so all you need to do is decorate.
Jacques Torres’ Chocolate Chip Peppermint Cookies
Jacques Torres (a.k.a. “Mr. Chocolate”) is a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef who makes what are arguably the very best chocolate chip cookies in New York, and quite possibly the whole country. These huge cookies are loaded with high-quality chocolate as as well as crushed candy canes.
Porto’s Bakery’s DIY Gingerbread Cookies
These cookies come straight from one of Los Angeles’ most iconic Cuban restaurants, and they’re hitting these gingerbread cookies out of the park. Each kit comes with ready-to-bake cookies, icing, and an assortment of Christmas-themed sprinkles.
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All of these Christmas classics & new limited-edition showstoppers are just a click away, ready to be delivered to your door or shipped nationwide as the perfect Holiday gift. Discover more Christmas Dinners, Christmas Hams, Christmas Cakes, and Christmas Cookies!
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