With Christmas only a few weeks away, coffee chains are introducing their festive menus of seasonal hot drinks and warming snacks.
From the popular Toffee Nut Latte to sweet hot chocolates, here are the new menus from Costa, Starbucks, Greggs, Pret A Manger and Caffe Nero.
Greggs’ caramel latte is making a comeback for Christmas 2020. The coffee comes with salted caramel syrup, cream and a shortbread crumb. Unlike the festive bake, the latte has reduced in price, dropping from £2.75 to £1.95 for a 12oz cup.
The chain’s popular festive bake will be making its return this year, although it is slightly higher in price.
Rising from £1.55 in 2019 to £1.60, the bake contains pieces of chicken breast, sage and onion stuffing and bacon, all encased in a sage and cranberry sauce and delicious flaky pastry.
There is a pigs under blanket baguette, which is filled with pork sausages, sweetcure bacon, pork, sage and onion stuffing, topped with a cranberry and port sauce.
Festive sweet treats include mini shortbreads topped with caramel sauce, Belgian milk chocolate and a gold finish, along with Christmas tree shaped ginger biscuits. These come covered in Belgian chocolate and decorated with sugar ball sprinkles and a sugar paste star.
And, if hot chocolate is your go-to drink over the festive period, Greggs is offering a mint creation, made with milk, mint flavoured syrup and topped with cream and sugar sprinkles.
The highly anticipated Christmas cups made their return recently, and the festive menu is now in stores.
The original Starbucks festive drinks are back once again – and for the first time Toffee Nut Latte and the Gingerbread Latte can be ordered with new vegan whipped topping, meaning vegan fans can savour the full festive experience.
Both of these popular drinks can also be enjoyed as a Frappuccino.
New this year is the Truffle Deluxe Hot Chocolate - a twist on the original hot chocolate, this drink is a blend of steamed milk, and chocolatey mocha, finished with whipped cream and a chocolate truffle flavour topping.
The Eggnog latte is also back to complete the original festive trio.
In terms of food, there's a nod to a Friends episode - The One with the Gravy Layer Sandwich.
This sandwich has a top layer of pulled ham hock and turkey, a bottom layer with a smoky butternut crush, red cabbage and a slice of cheddar cheese, and taking centre stage in the middle, a moist slice of sourdough steeped in turkey and cranberry gravy.
The ‘Tis the Season Turkey Sandwich, returns and includes pulled turkey with chestnut, sage and onion stuffing with cranberry sauce on malted bread.
The Very Merry Vegan Wrap has also made a return and includes crumbled butternut squash fritters and roasted red cabbage with a vegan maple mustard mayonnaise in a beetroot wrap.
New sweet treats include the Raspberry and Pistachio Linzer Cookie, made with ground pistachios and sandwiched with a sharp raspberry jam.
Also new is the Sea Salted Caramel and Pecan Swirl - a soft dough with a rich caramel filling, topped with sea salted caramel and chopped pecans.
Finally the Christmas Tree Brownie returns - a delicious brownie with chocolate buttercream, finished with a sprinkling of gold dust.
Costa has revealed its highly-anticipated Christmas food and drink menu, with a host of fan favourites returning this year, alongside a variety of new additions.
Included on Costa’s Christmas food menu this year is a combination of both new and returning savoury treats.
New items include a lobster toastie, British pork and bramley apple sausage roll and a vegan ‘turkee’, cranberry and stuffing bloomer toastie.
Returning items include a British turkey and the trimmings toastie and Brie, maple bacon and cranberry stonebaked panini.
New and returning sweet treats are also in stores, including the popular vegan and gluten-free mince tart and a new vegan Lotus Biscoff 'cheezecake’.
This year, for the first time in the brand’s history, Costa is taking three iconic festive chocolate favourites and transforming them into luxurious Christmas drinks.
The coffee chain is adding a Quality Street Purple One Latte, Quality Street Purple One Hot Chocolate, After Eight Hot Chocolate and Terry's Chocolate Orange Hot Chocolate to its festive menu.
Pret's festive menu is also available now and includes returning favourites and new additions.
A new savoury treat are Pret's pigs in blankets - Lincolnshire sausages, wrapped in slices of streaky bacon, ready to be enjoyed in a pot or in a roll with caramelised onion chutney and a dab of mustard mayo.
The Christmas Lunch Granary and Baguette are back along with a reinvented veggie Christmas sandwich, and a vegan Christmas Nut Roast, which includes roasted butternut squash, peppery rocket and Christmas pesto topped with a spoonful of vegan sage mayo, crispy onions and caramelised pecans.
Caffe Nero's festive menu is available in stores now with Christmas coffees such as the gingerbread latte - a classic Caffè Nero latte with gingerbread syrup that can be customised with whipped cream and marshmallows.
There's also a hazelnut latte, a classic latte with hazelnut syrup with additions of whipped cream and marshmallows.
Hot chocolate fans can indulge in a mint hot chocolate or a salted caramel hot chocolate.
Christmas food includes a range of toasted sandwiches such as a Brie, bacon and cranberry panini, pigs in blankets Tostati melt, turkey feast panini and vegan festive feast panini.
Sweet treats include a black forest rolade, billionaire's cake and the classic mince pie.
