Bring your traditional shortbread – homemade or good quality purchased – right on trend by dipping one end in melted dark chocolate and sprinkling with a little fleur de sel or sea salt.
Even Scrooge would crack a grin if he was served one of these ‘melted’ snowmen with their clever peanut-butter-cup caps and sprinkles for carrot noses.
Take a hint from Mother Nature and go green with a little help from peppermint extract, a few drops of green food colouring, white chocolate and cream.
A simple dusting of sea-salt flakes on the perfect meringue shell and a filling of creamy salted butterscotch creates a more-ish salty-sweet treat to savour.
Do as the Aztecs did and blend smooth chocolate with a hint of spicy chilli for a fab flavour duo – you’ll be singing ‘Hey macaron-a’ after your very first taste!