Best food gifts for Secret Santa

Whether you're shopping for colleagues, friends or family, our Secret Santa food gift guide makes it easy to find something that will score you major brownie points. From festive tins and indulgent treats under £10 to creative DIY foodie presents that double as fun activities, we’ve got the gifts that are guaranteed to raise a smile.

Secret Santa gifts under £5

• For cute Christmas treats: Playful Penguins. Hand-decorated milk and white chocolate penguins filled with caramel-sweet blond chocolate ganache.

• For the mallow lover: Gingerbread Latte Whip and Maple Caramel Whips. Choose from a gingerbread-spiced caramel whip with coffee-flavoured mallow, or a whip filled with salted maple caramel and fluffy mallow.

• For the pistachio nut: Pistachio Star. Treat them to this festive chocolate star, filled with a smooth pistachio crème centre, white chocolate and crunchy wafer.

• For the truffle obsessive: Hazelnut Praline Truffles. Made with Belgian chocolate and filled with rich hazelnut praline, these indulgent truffles feel far more expensive than their stocking-filler price tag.

• For the Christmas super fan: Rodney the Reindeer Noses. Moreish candy-coated chocolate reindeer nose balls.

For the citrus fan: Mini Orange Jaffa Cakes. Half-coated in dark chocolate and packed with zesty orange flavour, these mini jaffa cakes come in a twistable tin that creates different festive characters.

For the biscuit stealer: All Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies. Rich all-butter cookies in a clever lenticular tin that switches from naughty to nice.

Secret Santa Gifts Under £10

For snack obsessives:

• The Original Very Merry Munch: Tuck into a mix of milk and white chocolate-coated popcorn, salted and dark chocolate pretzels, milk chocolate peanuts and caramel almonds.

• The Original Very Jelly Munch: Get stuck into jelly beans, fruit-flavoured jellies, white chocolate popcorn, milk chocolate pretzels and popping candy milk chocolate caramel clusters.

• The Original Peanut Butter and Jelly Munch: A sweet-and-salty mix of fruity jellies, salted pretzels, peanut butter-filled milk chocolate, milk chocolate popcorn, caramel-flavoured white chocolate peanuts and crunchy milk and white chocolate-coated malt balls.

• The Original Gimme S'more Munch: Inspired by the campfire favourite, this moreish mix is packed with cookie fudge clusters, fluffy marshmallows, caramel buttons, white chocolate-coated popcorn, sugar-coated milk chocolate, salted pretzels and milk chocolate-coated biscuit pieces.

• Make sure they never run out with a bag of our Very Merry Munch Mix Refill.

For a sweet tooth:

• Peppermint Bark: Responsibly sourced Swiss dark and white chocolate layers topped with minty candy cane rubble.

• Milk Chocolate Coated Pistachio Muddles: Packed with whole pistachios, smooth caramel fully coated in Swiss milk chocolate and finished with pistachio nibs

• Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Crunch: Sweet caramel and crispy cornflakes generously coated in Swiss milk chocolate.

• Peppermint and Chocolate Wafer Rolls: Crisp cocoa-rich wafers filled with smooth peppermint cream, wrapped in dark chocolate.

• Malt Balls: Know someone who can't resist our iconic Malt Balls? This Christmas edition features crunchy malt centres coated in milk, white, blond and dark Belgian chocolate.

For the playful pal: Santa Jack-in-a-Box Musical Tin. Wind it up and watch Santa pop out to a festive tune. Once the surprise is over, they'll discover a tin filled with buttery star-shaped shortbread biscuits packed with dark chocolate chips.

Nostalgic Secret Santa gifts

• Mini Bars Treat Selection: Presented in packaging inspired by original St Michael designs, this nostalgic collection includes Coconut Grove, with soft coconut and milk chocolate; Sparks, with caramel and soft nougat; Jet, with nougat, caramel and peanuts; and Now Bar, with crunchy biscuit and caramel.

• Big Six Assortment: A selection of some of our most-loved heritage biscuits, including milk chocolate fudge creams, jam sandwich creams, milk chocolate sandwich fingers, Outrageously Chocolatey marbled whirls, all-butter chocolate chunk cookies and Outrageously Chocolatey milk chocolate shortcake. In store from 30 September.