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Ranking Costco's Holiday Season Desserts
BY Sarah Bisacca
8. Mini Gingerbread Cakes
The mini gingerbread cakes with vanilla icing are enjoyable, but they're basically vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream, offering no festive flavors.
Plus, the gingerbread man on top of each cake is made of chocolate, not a real gingerbread cookie. The cakes are now called "white mini cakes," likely to avoid flavor confusion.
7. Kirkland Crepe Cookies
Kirkland Signature's Chocolate-Covered Crepe Cookies Gift Set offers over 24 flaky, French-style crepe cookies — each coated in a thin layer of chocolate.
While the texture is nicely crisp, the flavor lacks decadence. At just $9.99 per box, these treats can still shine as a sidekick to a cup of coffee or post-dinner hot cocoa.
6. Cartmel Sticky Figgy Cake
Merging sticky toffee pudding and figgy pudding, Cartmel sticky figgy pudding cake features a dense sponge, dried fruits, warm spices, and toffee sauce.
Once warmed, its sponginess pairs well with the sweet, buttery toffee sauce, with hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, allspice, orange peel, figs, dates, and raisins shining through.
5. Respiga Panettone
Cutting into the $14.99 Respiga Luxury Chocolate Orange Spritz Panettone reveals a soft, brioche-like bread with swirls of orange jam in the center.
The treat is more like a bread than a cake but boasts a delicate chocolate coating and candied orange peel sprinkled on top. Its festive red packaging adds to its appeal, too.
4. Kirkland European Cookies
At just $15.99, Kirkland Signature's European Cookies with Belgian Chocolate Gift Set contains three pounds of treats of various flavors.
Options range from speculoos biscuits to caramel cookies and mocha-filled wafers, with each flavor boasting a distinct design. However, a few of the cookies tasted a little stale.