Popular Sheffield bakery is selling its biggest hamper for Christmas – and they'll deliver it across the UK

Forge Bakehouse, on Abbeydale Road, is selling a large luxury selection of packaged Yuletide treats in an attractive gift box which it will deliver anywhere in mainland Britain.

"You lucky devils who live too far away to visit, you can now order our biggest hamper for courier delivery,” the bakery says.

"With very limited availability, your hamper will be dispatched by Friday, December 11, plenty of time for a pre-Christmas delivery. These products have at least a month’s shelf life when made.”

The hamper contains a box of 12 handmade petit fours; a trio of seasonal jams; a trio of seasonal chutneys; parmesan and poppyseed crackers; spelt and toasted sesame crackers; lebkuchen; amaretti morbidi; banana bread granola and a bag of Forge Coffee Roasters’ Kropp beans, ground to the customer’s liking.

It all costs £66 – and the cost of delivery to mainland UK addresses is included in the price.

Forge Bakehouse has been selling online, as well as offering takeaways and deliveries, since the first national lockdown in March but was not able to reopen its busy café in summer.

In a statement issued in September, the bakery said its ‘small space’ made it ‘impossible’ to bring back the dine-in venue, adding: “Too few tables with social distancing in place means it's completely unaffordable.”

The bakery opened in 2012. It was set up by Martha Brown after she completed an advanced diploma at the School of Artisan Food on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire.

“I definitely couldn’t have foreseen the year we have had,” Martha said while reflecting on 2020 on the venture’s eighth anniversary earlier this month. “We’ve always grown organically anyway, I’ll just try and see this year as part of our organic development, maybe that will make it all a little easier to deal with.”

A range of hampers are also available for collection, or delivery to select Sheffield postcodes – these include the Cheese Lover’s Companion, and selections of Italian and German delicacies such as panettone and stollen.

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