Creamy, candy-coloured cheesecakes with a pleasingly crunchy shortbread or Oreo-cookie base, flavours include peanut butter and chocolate, Manchester Tart, blackcurrant and liquorice and espresso. Testers loved the complex taste of the liquorice and blackcurrant cake and the caramel hit of the chocolate peanut one. However, some found the sharp, milky taste a little too prominent… Read more

Sainsbury’s was runner-up in our best showstopping Christmas desserts. With an enticingly bitter Belgian chocolate aroma, these individual puddings are a decadent way to cap a meal. Topped with a silver pewter star for opulence and sprinkled in silver lustre these are intensely chocolatey. We enjoyed the light mousse and soft chocolate sponge hidden beneath… Read more