A winter selection of Thornton’s dessert gallery, which I’ve reviewed before. This one has seven different flavours, which are a selection of dessert centres in milk, white and dark chocolate cups. Yum yum.

The box certainly caught my attention when I impulse bought it. It’s a nice dark theme, wintery looking, and it has a big picture of all of the cups on the front. The seven flavours are – sticky toffee pudding, rhubarb crumble, christmas pudding, sherry trifle, double chocolate mousse, lemon meringue and tiramisu. The box has a little clear sheet on the front which lets you have a look at a few of the cups inside the box, and it worked because here I am.

Some flavours are certainly better than others, of course. They tried to make the dark chocolate mousse sound exciting but in the end I found it to be a little plain. The same goes for the sticky toffee pudding, which I felt had a lot of potential but flattered to deceive. The tiramisu was a fairly standard concoction, though I found the coffee flavour to be a little overbearing. The rhubarb crumble was very nice, with three layers to it – chocolate and crumble topping, fondant and rhubarb flavour jam, it was fruity, crunchy and chocolatey all at once. The christmas pudding was quite boozy and fruity, it’s very traditional tasting and whilst not completely up my alley, I can see this one being very popular. My favourites though were lemon meringue, a zesty lemon mousse within a white chocolate cup, and the sherry trifle, which was fruit jam, custard fondant and a jelly topping within milk chocolate. The sherry trifle was especially well made and just deliciously fruity and tangy. Lemon mousse was hardly new territory but it was so tangy and lemonny I couldn’t help but love it.

It would be extremely unfair to call this a mixed bag, but this is definitely one that has strong choices and some weaker ones. Every single one of these was delectable and it’s a selection I’d be very tempted to get again. A real Christmas treat, traditional and yet modern, and highly recommended.