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Review: Cartwright & Butler’s Harrogate Hamper

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Available exclusively from Harrods.

Cartwright & Butler - The Harrogate Luxury Christmas Hamper

image source: Harrods

Christmas has come early to our house.

A few days ago (on my 40th birthday, in fact!) I took delivery of the most posh collection of festive foodstuffs to ever cross the threshold of our house. When this arrived I truly felt I’d made it in the world of a professional food blogger.

I am on Harrods radar – and they’ve just sent me a hamper of awesome food! Heaven!

Established in 1824 by 25 year old Charles Henry Harrods, the current Harrods department store, on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London, occupies a 20,000 square metre site and features over 300 different departments.

With a motto of Omnia Omnibus Ubique (all things for all people. everywhere), this store really does have something for everyone. Their seasonal Christmas department is one of their most well known and their Christmas hampers range from the more affordable A Christmas Classic at £25 to the more extravagant The Decadence, at £20,000!

Established in 1981, Cartwright & Butler is a purveyor of fine foods, gifts and luxury hampers with a quintessentially British character. They ensure that all of their products use only the finest of ingredients so you can be assured of a traditional, homemade taste and a sense of luxury with every single bite.

Cartwright & Butler: The Harrogate Christmas Hamper

Packed into a pastel blue white-washed wicker trunk, the exclusive to Harrods Cartwright & Butler Harrogate Christmas Hamper is an elegant ode to Christmas entertaining, laden with jams and chutney, biscuits, crackers, tea and coffee. The hamper itself is huge – measuring 22 inches wide, 14.5 inches deep and 17.5 inches at its highest point and comes tied with a gorgeous Harrods printed ribbon.

Unpacking the hamper was a great pleasure. I love the colour of the hamper itself, which matches the colour and style of the treats inside. I also love the vintage, almost steampunk, detail on the Cartwright & Butler packaging. Each product is a visual and culinary work of art.

Butterscotch Crunch Biscuits from Cartwright & Butler

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SWEETS, CAKES & BISCUITS

This hamper contained a gorgeous assortment of sweet things from chocolate wafer fingers (I’m scoffing these as I type), chocolate wafer rounds, caramel syrup waffles (my daughter’s favourite), salted caramel fudge, butter fudge, dark chocolate coated ginger cookies, butterscotch crunch cookies, cranberry crumbles, butter thins with almonds and a 600 gram decorated fruit cake in a lovely reusable pastel painted gift tin.

200 grams of demerara shortbread rounds and strawberry & white chocolate chunk biscuits both come packaged in gorgeous reusable tins.

Cartwright & Butler Chutney

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CRACKERS & SAVOURY SNACKS

Designed for sharing, this hamper comes with everything you’ll need to serve with a cheese board or savoury snack table while entertaining this holiday season. Items include Cheddar cheese biscuits in a reusable tin, linseed and sesame seed flat breads, tomato and black olive bread thins, Gouda cheese twists, cheese biscuits and Roquefort cheese melts.

HONEY & PRESERVES

The jams, chutney and condiments included with this hamper all come in attractive glass jars with ceramic lids. These include mint sauce, English mustard, raspberry preserve, three fruit marmalade, onion chutney and hot Piccalilli. There is also a large piece of acacia honeycomb in a lovely painted reusable tin.

Cartwright & Butler Tea & Coffee

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TEA & COFFEE

Fifteen whole leaf tea bags of both the classic Earl Grey and English breakfast teas are included in this hamper as well as 227 grams of each Cafe York Blend Coffee and After Dinner Blend Coffee. The coffees both come in lovely reusable gold coloured tins.

EXTRA GIFT

This hamper comes with a very attractive Lytton House acacia wood cheese board cut so that the bark is still showing on the two long sides. Inset with a removable piece of quality slate this hand made rustic serving board comes with two cheese knives and a fork server.

The Harrogate Christmas Hamper retails for £250 and it is available exclusively from Harrods. In fact, it features in their Style Insider as one of the Top 5 Christmas Hampers this year.

With great thanks to Harrods for the opportunity to review this item. This is not a paid post and all thoughts and opinions expressed are our own.

Comments

  1. I had some of Shetland’s finest Mirrie dancer chocolates and chorcas for christmas and now you have Cartwright and Butler goodies from my neck of the woods! Spooky!!!! The Cartwright and Butler goodies are soooo delish but the tins themselves are also a lovely useful thing to keep and re use for your own homemade cookies etc. I’m pleased you enjoyed the treats from God’s own county!
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  8. One such hamper from Cartwright and Butler is a beautiful gift idea and the goodies are quiet amazing for sure. With cookies, sweets, tea and everything this is a dream package that I would love to get right away!

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  12. I want all from the hamper under my Christmas tree! The butterscotch crunch and coffee are right up my alley. Awesome photos! Looks so festive and full of great cheer! Happy holiday to you and yours!

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  13. If I had all of these, my coffee table would clearly be served as a holder for these treats every day instead of books. Butterscotch cookies, mmm! Happy birthday, and may you have more wonderful days ahead of you!

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  16. This Cartwright and Butler Hamper is just irresistibly delicious. Everything looks amazing. I have been getting into natural honey and honey combs. Its so cool that they include the acacia honeycomb.

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  17. I yous love the photos. I want all products from the firs image, love their labels and colors. I bet the products are delicious as well

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    • I wish I could claim the images as my own, but they’re all from either Harrods or Cartright & Butler directly. There’s no way my photos would have done the hamper justice!

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  18. Totally love Harrods Harrogate hamper and all the amazing goodies! I would love to try the cookies because i have such a sweet tooth 🙂

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  20. That’s a lot of awesome stuff in one box! I’m sure you had a great time trying all those treats out. I hope you had an amazing birthday! You deserve it!

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  22. Happy birthday! I love the hamper that you have. It is really nice looking. The other gits sound amazing too!

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  34. I love a good food hamper!!! I would love something like this but its quite pricy and after christmas shopping I don’t think my bank balance could quite cope!

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  38. One thing I would love to receive is a Hamper, one item I have never had a gift and yet they all just look so amazing and this is just divine x

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  49. Oh awesome! This is a great Hamper. The crackers and savoury snacks are right up my street! Also love that it comes with a wood cheese board! Lovely post, thank you for sharing xx

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  50. Happy Birthday! What a gift! This is hamper Heaven. I’d expect nothing less. I could eat all of it now and I know some people who would love this. Is the hamper box itself reusable? x

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  56. First and foremost happy belated birthday!! 40 is the new 20 and secondly what an amazing hamper you was given by Harrods. The cheeseboard alone sounds magnificent. X

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