If you are thinking of giving food as gifts to family and friends this Christmas but cannot find the time to do so, the Christmas offerings of Ollie's Kitchen just might fit the bill. The brand offers a wide range of artisanal products, including breads, pastries, and cookies, packaged in round and rectangular boxes for the festive season of Christmas.

What makes it special is that Ollie Isidro, the brains behind Ollie's Kitchen, creates new Christmas packages every year, so there's always something new to enjoy for the holidays. Even the Ultimate Box, which is the most luxurious and indulgent Christmas package, differs every year. Priced affordably at P1,500, this year's Ultimate Box consists of two pieces each of quezo de bola ensaymada, butter croissant and pain au chocolat to go with half a dozen hand-rolled cookies, assorted confiture and chocolate tablea. This combination is a great treat indeed, as the ensaymadas are really soft and delightful, topped with buttercream, and sprinkled generously with grated quezo de bola. The butter croissants can compete with the best in the metro, and the pain au chocolat is perfect.

Viennoiserie is filled with premium chocolate and delicately rolled and baked treats. Ollie's Kitchen is also known for its huge, chewy and loaded cookies, which come in different variants. These variants include Classic Chocolate Chip, Pistachio Dark Chocolate, Macadamia Toffee, Pecan Cranberry, Chocolate Mallow, and Quadruple Chocolate. All these goodies come in a wooden crate tied with a golden ribbon.

Also packaged in a wooden crate is the all-new Valrhona Chocolate Crinkles (P700). It's one whole dozen of decadently rich and chocolatey cookies with a fudgy,
melt-in-your-mouth, soft interior within a gorgeous crackled exterior covered by powdered sugar. The use of the finest chocolates from Valrhona Asia makes it extra special.

Other special packages available this Christmas include Filipino Christmas Box (P825), which is six pieces of ensaymadas with Dekada Chocolate Tablea in a glass jar; French Christmas (P825), which consists of three pieces of butter croissants and three pieces of pain au chocolat with a jar of dragon fruit confiture; and Ollie's Dozen (P800), which is a dozen of Ollie's Kitchen's best-selling Valrhona cookies — two each of Classic Chocolate Chip, Pistachio Dark Chocolate, and Macadamia Toffee.

Then, there are the delicious, ready-to-eat cakes in round aluminum pans at P650 each — English sticky toffee pudding (a dark, dense sponge cake made with chopped dates and topped with sweet toffee sauce), butter rum cake (tender, buttery and melt-in-the-mouth rum loaf glazed with a decadent butter rum sauce), and Pistachio Food for the Gods (chewy date- and
pistachio-packed bars presented in a whole round pan.

Ollie's Kitchen is now accepting orders via www.ollieskitchenph.com. Orders may also be placed via Facebook (Ollie's Kitchen), Instagram (@ollies.kitchen), or mobile number 0926-6136392.