Saturday 3 October 2020

THE WINTER GARDEN GIVEAWAY!

 It's time for THE WINTER GARDEN publication celebration GIVEAWAY my loves and as always, I'm making it super easy to enter!

So, what's on offer? I'm giving away four prizes this time. 

The top two prize bundles include

A signed copy of the book, a bespoke Winter Garden bookmark, a candy cane pen for writing those lists to Santa and a delicious Lindt snowflake chocolate!

The two runner up prizes include 

A bespoke Winter Garden bookmark and a signed bookplate. I'm VERY excited about these and can't wait to send the first ones out!

How to enter - 

To gain your place in the big hat of chance all you have to do is tell me, in the comments box below...

 What is your favourite festive food or snack?

 Simple as that!

This is a UK only competition and the closing date is October 17th with the winners being picked at random and announced on the 18th. 

Good luck!

Lots of love

H xxx

214 comments:

  1. What a lovely giveaway, Heidi! Thanks so much! My favourite festive treats are mulled wine and gingerbread people! ❤️

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  2. Thank you very much for a super giveaway Heidi. My favourite festive treat is orange and cranberry shortbread biscuits! Would love to know yours too? :-)

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  3. Hello Heidi my favourite part of Christmas is the Turkey and all the trimmings! Xx

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  4. Luxury all butter Shortbread with a hot chocolate. All cosy sat with a blanket and Christmassy book x

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  5. Fantastic giveaway Heidi πŸ€žπŸ™
    My favourite festive treats would be salty snacks......a phrase my late Mum used! With a glass......or two......of mulled wine. Xx

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  6. I’m so excited about this book! I’ve read all the others so can’t wait to get hold of this one! It’s all about the cheese for me!! Melted Camembert with pigs in blankets for dunking!!

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  7. Favourite festive food / snack is something I've not had in years - my mum's cold sausage meat stuffing with cold turkey, beetroot, mayonnaise sandwiched between two fresh slices of white bread. Yum!

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  8. Hello Heidi, my favourite festive food is stollen - all of that fruity marzipanny deliciousness...mmmm stollen πŸ₯°πŸŽ„

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  9. Lovely giveaway Heidi. My fave festive treats are shortbread and Treeselets (Cheeselets in the shapes of trees πŸ˜‚) Thanks for the chance to win xx

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  10. It has to be stollen...with a glass of mulled wine alongside it!
    Liz x

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  11. I'm very on board with mint hot chocolate - it tastes just like an After Eight <3

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  12. My favourite festive treat is reindeer bark made by my lovely American friends!

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  13. Hi there
    My favourite festive food is Yule
    Log. Many fond childhood memories of who would get the end piece ( my grandad would always have the other one!!)

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  14. Stollen for me, love marzipan.
    Donna x

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  15. My favourite festive food or snack is mince πŸ₯§ πŸ™‚

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  16. My favourite festive food or snack is mince πŸ₯§ πŸ™‚

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  17. It would have to be Christmas Pudding.
    I’m also partial to a mince pie but it has to be a good one!
    At Easter I love hot cross buns.

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  18. Amazing giveaway. Mine has to be after eights they rrming me of my childhood x

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  19. Warm mince pie with brandy butter slowly melting on top of it πŸ˜‹

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  20. My favourite festive snack is homemade gingerbread men, we always make them on Christmas eve and it makes the house smell amazing too 😍❄πŸ’™

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  21. Oh definitely has to be a homemade mince pie! I love the tradition of making these with my mum and then cosying up with a brew and a few to eat!

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  22. I love anything with fruit and spices at Christmas so mince pies, Christmas Cake, mulled wine. Yum!

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  23. A fab giveaway thank you. My favourite festive food is the Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce after πŸŽ„πŸŽ„

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  24. My favourite festive food would have to be the good old mince pie. I could eat them all year round, but they always taste
    that little bit special at Christmas.

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  25. Has to be my mums homemade Christmas cake. Every Christmas I don’t have any until tea time Christmas Day but after that it’s usually a breakfast option then 3/4 times a day

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  26. What a lovely giveaway Heidi, I would love to win. My favourite festive food has to be the dinner on Christmas Day. It’s the one roast dinner I look forward to, with all the trimmings.

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  27. Christmas pudding, but it has to be homemade with my mum's recipe that she has adapted over the years from Mrs Beaton. Even better if I sneak in a bit of my hubby's cognac when he's not lookingπŸ˜ƒ I make a few and we always save one to have on my birthday in March.

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  28. Ooh, great prizes! My favourite Christmas snack is mince pies smothered in Baileys cream - delicious! Xx

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  29. Fantastic giveaway Heidi, Has to be stollen slices and a Baileys coffee. πŸŽ„

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  30. My favourite festive food has to be mince pies. My mum always used to make them every Christmas and I used to love the smell of the mincemeat. I am going to carry on her tradition now in her memory as she used to love Christmas x

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  31. Mince Pies with a dollop of cream πŸ˜‹ My Mum makes the best ones! πŸ’œπŸ€ž

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  32. My favourite Christmas food is Boxing Day turkey and vegetable soup from a flask as we look out to sea following a long beach walk and maybe a surf if its not too cold!

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  33. My favourite festive food has to be mince pies. My mum always used to make them every Christmas and I used to love the smell of the mincemeat. I am going to carry on her tradition now in her memory as she used to love Christmas x

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  34. Its got to be turkey on toast on boxing day morning ��

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  35. Can't wait to read this one. Saving it for nearer Christmas. My favourite has to be a cheese board with Stilton and a glass of port xx

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  36. What a great giveaway ☺ My favourite Christmas food/snack would have to be the Lebkuchen chocolate hearts filled with apricot jam. Once I open a pack of those it definitely feels like Christmas.

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  37. My fav festive food has to be good old roast potatoes! Don’t get me wrong I could eat this any day but they taste extra special during Christmas!!! Also work in a school and their Christmas lunch cupcakes are the BEST!!

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  38. My favourite Christmas treat is boxing day dinner, turkey bacon stuffing wedges mash gherkins salad brown sauce

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  39. What a great giveaway! My favourite Christmas food is the Christmas turkey lunch with all the trimmings.

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  40. Fab giveaway! I love a chocolate orange 🧑

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  41. Ah a lovely giveaway. My favourite Xmas food is mince pies. One year I ate one every day in December ❤️

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  42. My favourite Christmas food is warm Christmas cake with brandy butter, delicious!!

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  43. My fav Christmas snack is Ferraro rocher and salt and vinegar pringles yum x

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  44. Love the tins of crocs but usually have to buy another as they’re all gone by xmas.

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  45. Oh what a lovely giveaway! Thank you Heidi.
    My favourite is mince pie with whipped cream ❤️

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  46. Lovely giveaway. Thank you. I love a Terry's chocolate orange πŸ˜€πŸŽ„

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  47. Congratulations on publication day!

    Every year Mum and I go to Bury St Edmund's Christmas market, and we always go to this little stall which makes tiny dutch pancakes. We go just as the afternoon light turns to twilight, and watch the men turn the fat little pancakes over deftly with a fork with only one tine. We share a plate of them dusted with icing sugar and drizzled with maple syrup. It is usually chilly by then and we are tired, and these hot little mouthfuls of sweetness are just what we need.

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  48. What a lovely giveaway. Love all things Christmassy but my favourite has got to be mince pies πŸ˜‹

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  49. A good old mince pie. Hot or cold. Blob of cream or unaccompanied. With a brew or with bubbles. Homemade or shop bought. As long as they’re plentiful. Perfect Christmas treat xx

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  50. Great giveaway!! My favourite food is the turkey dinner. Life can be so busy, it’s the one day that we are guaranteed to all sit around the table together and enjoy a meal.

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  51. Hi Heidi. My fav festive treat is mince pies. I can never wait to make a batch with an additional slug of spiced rum! πŸ˜‰ Thanks for doing such a fab giveaway xx

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  52. Congratulations on publication!! Nothing can beat homemade mincepies!

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  53. What a fabulous giveaway. I absolutely love Christmassy food, but my favourite would have to be stollen, as I have a love of marzipan ��

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  54. A slice of homemade baileys chocolate log ... with a steaming hot chocolate and a lovely book to read my idea of heaven x x

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  55. Got to be pigs in blankets!! I could live on those things!

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  56. Thank you Heidi for another wonderful giveaway. I love Christmas. I would say my favourite food is a full roast Christmas dinner. Sitting with family tucking into turkey, pigs in blankets,stuffing, roast potatoes and vegetables. Yum yum. Oh and my favourite chocolate would be after eight mintsπŸŽ…

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  57. Lovely treats. My Christmassy food woulld be chocolate log and a cheeky glass of mulled wine! xx

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  58. Thank you for this Heidi, I’ve got my fingers crossed, which makes it difficult to type. πŸ˜‚ My favourite foods at Christmas are those sweet or naughty things that I don’t have at any other time of the year, especially Mon Cheri cherry liqueurs, a big bag of salted peanuts and stollen (or anything with marzipan), delicious! 🀞🏻🀞🏻🀞🏻

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  59. Christmas foods.. Mmmm.. So many yummy things that don't just taste great but can fill the house with their delicious aroma but my favourite Christmas snack isn't any of them it's cheesy footballs. As far back as I can remember we always had them at Christmas. As a mum now myself they are now part of my children's Christmas essentials snacks. When out shopping if I spot them I can't help but smile.

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  60. Slow roasted muntjak for dinner, an invasive pest which needs controlling.

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  61. Mince pies slightly warm with some cream are my fave πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹

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  62. My sister's Yorkshire puddings, Christmas wouldn't be the same without them πŸ˜πŸŽ„ x

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  63. Pigs in blankets are my favourite Christmas food!

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  64. Pigs in blankets are my favourite Christmas food!

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  66. My Christmas cake made to the Delia Smith recipe (with couple of tweaks)

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  67. Christmas yule log. With the thick creamy centre, and the peaked icing on top. Accompanied with a nice dollop of ice cream. Yum!

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  68. Can I say the whole Christmas Dinner? But really my favourite part is the Brussels Sprouts, we have them cooked with chestnuts and pancetta and I could eat a plateful of just those.

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  69. mine has to be home made Christmas fruit cake has to be boozy as well

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  70. Mince pies, mulled wine and pigs in blankets! Yum!

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  72. I always love to curl up with some coffee and the Lindt reindeers or Santas.πŸ˜‹

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  73. My favourite Christmas food is Christmas cake with marzipan and thick icing, it’s the best! I love Christmas! X

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  74. Chestnuts. When I was little we would roast them on the open fire. The taste takes me back there.

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  75. Mince pies with lashings of cream Yummy!

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  76. There isn’t anything about Festive food not to love and the list is endless but.... Think I would never cope without a Turkey sandwich πŸ₯ͺπŸŽ„

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  77. Oh, there’s so many! I am partial to a salted caramel mince pie(warm) with cream. Washed down with a nice mulled wine.

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  78. There are so many amazing festive foods but of I had to pick one it would be marzipan :)

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  79. I think cheese and crackers but Boursin garlic cheese (I thought Boursin was spelt a lot fancier than it is ����). I know this isn’t really Christmas festive food but for me it’s the only time I eat it, my family get a pack of Boursin just for me since I put so much on the cracker �� but I love making homemade mincemeat for making mince pies for presents.

    What’s your favourite festive food Heidi? Xx

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  80. My favourites are cookies and milk on christmas eve with my hubby and some festive movies. Then after we have demolished christmas dinner and have days of leftovers, I make the moist maker that Ross from Friends talks about - A turkey sandwich with a slice of gravy-soaked bread in the middle... it's actually delicious����

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  81. My favourite festive snack is a gingerbread man, washed down with a Black Forest got chocolate!

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  82. I love a brandy snap and tea in a Christmassy mug.

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  84. My favourite Christmas snack is without doubt a mince pie or two ! I love them !

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  85. Mince pies. Nice and simple. But with a good thin crispy crust and deep filled with lots of spice. No use having them too sweet with a thick crust! Happy publication week

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  86. My favourite Christmas snack is without doubt a mince pie or two !

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  87. My favourite christmas snack has to be home made shortbread cookies and a hot choc with cream..

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  88. Roast Turkey dinner with all the trimmings 😁😁😁😁😁😁

    @sammypea76 on Twitter

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  89. Susie Bower. So exciting .... mine has to be a home baked mince pie served with a dollop of Roddas Cornish Clotted Cream dusted with a sprinkling of cinnamon ! Mouth watering! Good Luck all stay safe.

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  90. Christmas cake! Also controversialy I'm partial to sprouts

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  91. Christmas cake! Also controversialy I'm partial to sprouts

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  92. Christmas cake! Also controversialy I'm partial to sprouts

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  93. Lovely prizes Heidi. I'm quite boring really it has to be mince pies. Love them but hated them as a child!! Either Greggs or the best ever CostcoπŸŽ„ yum

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  94. My favourite Christmas snack is mince pies. So yummy with lots of brandy cream xx

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  95. Mine has to be cheese and crackers! Yum!

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  96. I love red cabbage with apples with my Christmas dinner and pigs in blankets x

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  97. Christmas cake with a chunk of cheese, delicious πŸ˜‹

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  98. My favourite Christmas snack are mince pies!

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  99. Warm mince pie, with lots of Bailey's cream ��

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  100. Warm mince pie, with lots of Bailey's cream 😊

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  101. Christmas cake and cheese ����

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  102. My favourite festive food is a chocolate orange as I always have one in my stocking. Also, mince pies! I try to taste test as many different ones as possible πŸŽ…πŸ» xx

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  103. I love my own mince pies and Christmas cake but also plenty of cheese and crackers and nuts πŸ˜‹

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  104. Tangerines, I could try and deny that I eat them by the half dozen but I really do eat them in large quantities.

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  105. Christmas dinner is everything! I love turkey with bread sauce!

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  106. My favourite Christmas food is Christmas pudding and rum sauce...homemade!

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  107. Pigs in blankets and Christmas Dinner

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  108. Love Christmas love the smell
    Of gingerbread and cinnamon
    As I’m now gluten & lactose intolerant I have to be careful what I eat....

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  109. My favourite is Turkey and stuffing. Mmmmm

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  110. Amazing giveaway! My favourite treat is mince pies πŸ₯§ love them!

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  111. My favourite has to be turkey and all the trimmings!! Why not? X

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  112. Loveeee stuffing balls 😍

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  113. My favourite snack would be Mince pies, I absolutely love them ����

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  114. Thank you for giving one of us the chance to win this lovely prize, Heidi! I love Mince Pies but I love Stollen even more πŸ˜€ xxx

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  115. Mine would be the good old mince pie, even though I could eat them all year, they always seen that bit more special at Christmas.

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  116. It’s got to be my mum’s homemade mince pies!! But then again i also like shortbread to!!

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  117. Love a mince pie and mulled wine with the family πŸŽ„

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  118. I love pigs on blanket and Turkey ☺️☺️☺️

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  119. My favourite festive snack is Homemade Christmas Cake with Cheshire Cheese πŸ˜‹πŸ§€πŸŽ„πŸŽ‚ karenramsden1964@gmail.com

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  120. My favourite festive snack is Homemade Christmas Cake with Cheshire Cheese πŸ˜‹πŸ§€πŸŽ„πŸŽ‚ karenramsden1964@gmail.com

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  121. My favourite snack is Hunky Dorys salt & vinegar crisps . Also turkey salad sandwich with coleslaw

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  122. My favourite snack is a mini slice of Christmas Cake you can get these at all the coffee shops, if only they do this in Christmas pudding another of my favourites.

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  124. Cheese! I buy a variety from local Christmas markets and just dive in. This year I have made Damson cheese which is similar to a chutney so looking forward to trying this with different cheeses.

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  125. Love Christmas food that we do not have during the year -
    Cranberry sauce with turkey
    Apple sauce with pork
    White sauce with Christmas pud
    Brandy sauce with hot mince pies
    Oh I just love food especially at Christmas

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  126. My favourite festive treat has to be my Christmas cake, rich fruit cake full of brandy, topped with marzipan and royal icing. A once a year indulgence.

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  127. Toblerone. I only have it at Christmas.

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  128. Toblerone. I only have it at Christmas
    Louise (Bookmarks and Stages

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  129. Lovely giveaway. My favourite festive snack would be mince pies, ideal hot or cold with a cup of tea or a glass of wine

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  130. Wow - mince pies are really coming out on top! I'm partial to a box of Ferrero Roche at Christmas :)

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  131. It has got to be a mince pie! Although once I buy that first pack it's a slippery slope for the calorie intake!!! Fabulous giveaway πŸ’•

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  132. Hello Heidi! What a lovely competition! I've got my fingers crossed! I think my favourite winter treat is making gingerbread and hot cocoa with my three year old daughter. Obviously, gingerbread is a winner in its own right 🀀 but making it with my little girl makes it even more magical. ❤️

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  133. I love anything but mince pies always come to mind! There’s a also a load of bread they sell in Sainsburys which has cranberry and pumpkin seeds in it and it always reminds me of Christmas 😍 (Hannah - wrotewithcoffee)

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  134. Definitely pigs in blankets 😊 Christmas isn’t Christmas without them

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  136. I absolutely love Christmas and everything about it, but my favourite festive snack would have to be Christmas Cake (washed down with a glass of Baileys)

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  137. I love the smell of mixing the ingredients together to make the Christmas Puddings. Getting the grandchildren to come round and have a stir and make their wish. Then of course setting them on fire Christmas πŸŽ„ Day and eating it.

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  138. I mean, there are so many lovely foods from homemade Christmas cake, mince pies to the yummy turkey buns on Boxing Day!! But mine has to be The big turkey dinner on Christmas Day !! I dream about it all year 😍 I can’t wait to tuck into it this year xxx

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  139. Christmas cake. I make one every year with my husband and now with my 7year old son. We mix it all together and cast our winter wishes. Made with love and it tastes delicious.

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  140. Hi Heidi, a lovely thoughtful give away, I adore your books and always look forward to the release dates.
    My favourite snack has to be chocolate and gingerbread men, a good cuppa with the gingerbread. Xx

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  141. It's the #swooningswainette here!

    Those book marks are making me properly giddy with excitement.

    Favourite Christmas food now is Christmas cake with some strong cheddar. The two flavours are fantastic together. Oh, and nothing says Christmas quite like a Terry's chocolate orange.

    When my mum was alive, it used to be her mince pies that were my favourite Christmas food. No one has ever made a mince pie quite as good as my mum (I am biased of course).

    I miss the warmth and smell of baking mince pies when I walked into her kitchen and seeing her hot and bothered and bustling around with flour all down the front of her apron.

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  142. My favourite is Christmas pudding with lashings of brandy cream πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹ CookingTheBooks @kayleighw851
    Kayleigh Louise Brown

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  143. Great competition question...my absolute favourite is Mince pies and Brandy butter, warm, obviously! Sat by a log burner with a hot chocolate on the side 😘 thanks for asking xx

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  144. Cor that's hard. Christmas cake with extra thick cream.

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  145. Homemade Christmas pudding (with advocaat cream)!

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  146. My favourite 😍 Christmas food is cheese πŸ§€, you get a lot of nice cheese boards at Christmas time πŸ˜‹ πŸ˜‹ πŸŽ„

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  147. My favourite Christmas food is the mince pies with the icing on top 😍😍

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  148. Hope this works 🀞 either pigs in blankets and Brussels sprouts

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  149. Hi Heidi. My favourite snack would be After Eight Mints and a glass of Baileys over ice.

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  150. Christmas cake with a bit of Wensleydale cheese.

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  151. Before little man it was prawn vol au vents, but he has a severe shellfish allergy, so now it is home cooked Gannon with a diet coke in a glass bottle.

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  152. Before little man it was prawn vol au vents, but he has a severe shellfish allergy, so now it is home cooked Gannon with a diet coke in a glass bottle.

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  153. I love to have a glass of baileys and few chocolates from the roses tin when I decorate my tree

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  154. its not Christmas without turkey and all the trimming and bread sauce

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  155. My favourite Christmas food is brandy snaps πŸŽ„πŸŽ…

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  156. My favourite festive food has to be Christmas pudding!! πŸ₯°

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  157. Aww my mum used to always bake sausage rolls and mince pies from scratch every Christmas Eve, it’s been 22 years and we still miss her (and them), they were the best! πŸ˜‹πŸ’—πŸ˜‹ x

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  158. Its got to be a mint hot chocolate with a shortbread biscuit. The perfect Christmas treat

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  159. Wow I can't believe its the most wonderful time of the year again πŸŽ„❤️ My husband and I are planning to go home to the Philippines to celebrate Christmas with our parents but it's not happening due to the current pandemic.

    We will surely miss the Christmas festivities that we grew up with which makes this season so special. One of this is the Filipino dawn mass (a nine days series of mass until the dawn of Christmas).

    Every after mass, there are many stalls and sellers of steamed rice cakes (bibingka and puto bumbong in our language) outside the church. My granny and parents will buy several of it, still steaming hot, wrapped in banana leaf, and hurry home with us, the children. It would be served by my mum with freshly brewed coffee for the adults and hot chocolate for us with lovely Christmas song at the background. It was such a warm tradition which I always look forward to ever since I was a child which makes steamed rice cakes as my favorite festive food.

    Thank you Heidi for the opportunity to relieve and share this wonderful memories and have a Merriest Christmas to you, your family and to all of your subscribers.

    Angelli Joyce Santiago
    angelli.joyce1008@gmail.com

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  160. Tough decision I love mince pies at Christmas, but I love Stollen just as much as I am crazy about Marzipan. ��

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  161. Cheesey footballs but you almost never see them !😒😒
    Twiglets, mini cheddars but where have all the cheesey footballs gone 🐿

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  162. Has to be popping candy chocolate orange πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹

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  163. Hi Heidi, I am so excited for this festive read! My favourite festive snack is mince pies washed down with a Baileys hot chocolate! Merry Christmas πŸŽ„!

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  164. My favourite festive food is Christmas dinner and trifle washed down with thick creamy hit chocolate πŸ˜‹πŸ˜‹ xx

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  165. It has to be mince pies, warm with Cumberland rum butter placed under the lid. Heaven.

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  166. That’s such a hard one! Bread Sauce has to be on the list of favs. Literally only have it at Xmas time. Chocolate truffles are also a Christmas staple, especially homemade. But Christmas Dinner itself has to be a sign bet. It’s like no other roast at no other time of year. All the little extras making it special, surrounded by family and friends. Another smashing book from you to read as the nights draw in. Love cuddling up by the fire with a Swain Xmas novel in my hand. Great Competition x

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  167. Has to be the roast dinner with gravy and roasters and turkey. Although my mam used to make a fry up out of this world on Boxing Day

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  168. A difficult one I love Christmas lunch with all the trimmings, but also my homemade mince pies are always a winner with everyone.

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  169. My favourite festive food is, without any hesitation, a mince pie (or two), with the latest Heidi Swain festive read on the side. Can’t wait to read this one with a mince pie (s), of course!

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  170. My favourite festive snack is definitely Pigs In Blanket flavour crisps :)

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  171. My favourite festive snack is a chocolate biscuit selection box. You just can't go wrong.

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  172. I love mince pies and always have my first one on 1st December while putting the tree up x

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  173. oh Christmas time in Germany means different kind of Christmas cookies. My favourite are called "Kalter Hund" (cold dog) and consist of rice paper with chocolate ganache in the middle.

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  174. I have to say I adore christmas pudding ! either hot or cut up cold in ice cream, its one indulgance i cannot do without !

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  175. Definitely home made mince pie with an indulgent hot chocolate with lots of Christmas spices added.

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  176. I love a decadent cheese board with pickles, chutneys and crackers. Yum yum

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  177. Champagne and Brazil nuts 🍾

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  178. My favourite has to be christmas pud with double cream πŸŽ…πŸŽ…

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  179. Oooh this is such a tough one as I love a mincemeat pie (has to be shortcrust though - a puff one won't do). But in the interests of keeping in my mum-in-laws's good books, I'll say her boozy Christmas cake. She feeds it with brandy for months!πŸ˜‹

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  180. It has to be satsumas! Weird but true. Seasonal ones taste so much better somehow...

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  181. It has to be Christmas Cake with a chunk of Stilton on the side to help combat the sweetness

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  182. Only one festive treat?

    Not five gold wrapped chocolates,
    four mince pies calling,
    three satsumas peeling,
    two turkey dinners,
    and a huge Christmas pudding!

    Has to be ... Christmas pudding!

    I'm still using the 7 Cup Christmas pudding recipe from the Glasgow cookbook that my mother-in-law gave me 24 years ago, now my daughters make if for us though, it's a family event.

    Thanks, it's been lovely to think of something so cheerful to look forward to. Would love to read your book and get right into the seasonal mood.

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  183. My favourite Christmas food is definitely mince pies, problem is that I eat so many leading up to Cgristmas that come Christmas Day I really cannot stand the sight of them πŸ˜‚

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  184. A homemade sausage roll or all the cheese and biscuits!

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  185. A homemade sausage roll or all the cheese and biscuits!

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  186. Mine is a ferrero roche...I know that they are available all year round but we only ever treat ourselves to them at Christmas!

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  187. My favourite treat at Christmas is the Turkey Toast for breakfast on Boxing day and beyond. Hot buttered toast with slices of cold white turkey meat between them. Plenty other things I associate with Christmas Chocolate Orange, After Eights, Chipolatas with the roast...but Turkey toast is my favourite :-) Rx

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  188. Aw wow, such an AMAZING give away ���� i have to say my absolute favourite crimbo snack have to be M&S Shortbread Biscuits!!! Once a year I buy a tin & eat them Christmas Eve with a nice brew, fluffy Jammies & feel good crimbo flick on the box �������� and yes....I eat the whole lot in one sitting nom nom nom xxxx

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  189. My mums christmas dinner. No idea why it tastes better than her normal roast dinner but it does. Good luck all

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  190. Left over Christmas Day veg and gravy! I make too much just for this purpose. If I can stretch out not cooking for at least two days it’s a result!

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