NOTHING says it’s Christmas like cracking open a tub of Quality Street – and the popular confectionary brand has launched a range of new flavours and products ahead of the festive season.
Nestle has today unveiled its Christmas confectionary range for 2025, along with a whole host of Quality Street changes.
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Fans will be able to try a brand new mystery flavour this year, which can be found in limited edition bags of Quality Street sold exclusively at Waitrose and John Lewis.
You can also find the mystery sweet at John Lewis’ pop-up Christmas pick and mix stations, which will return to all stores in October.
If you can’t wait to discover what the new flavour is, you can find out here.
Meanwhile, a fan-favourite Quality Street flavour has made a comeback for a third Christmas – after it was gone from shelves for 20 years.
The limited edition Coffee Creme flavour has returned – and you can get an entire box of them in Waitrose for £6.
One excited shopper responded to the news of the comeback with a rave review on the Waitrose website, describing the sweets as “absolutely delicious”.
“Every year I beg the makers of Quality Street to bring coffee creams back to their collection tins and boxes,
“So to discover these is like 40 years of Christmases all coming together.
“They are absolutely delicious, with an intense coffee flavoured hit. I don’t know why QS ever stopped making them. Merry, merry Christmas!”, they wrote.
Fans of the green triangle Quality Street will be happy to know that the brand has launched a new sharing bar inspired by the hazelnut flavour sweet.
The bar was spotted on Asda shelves earlier this year, with Nestle saying they created the bar so fans “don’t have to wait until Christmas to enjoy sharing the taste of one of their favourite Quality Street sweets”.
An 84g bar costs £3.50, and is described as having a “smooth, silky praline filling coated in a milk chocolate shell”.
Meanwhile, Quality Street’s recyclable paper tub is returning this Christmas, the brand said.
They are set to be rolled out across select Tesco stores starting from October.
The octagonal tubs are embellished with gold foil, and have a “re-close” feature which allows it to be securely closed once opened.
And the paper tubs could be brought in permanently in the future, as Nestle said it was continuing to evaluate their popularity with shoppers.
Another change to Quality Street this year that’s likely leave fans bitterly disappointed is the number of sweets in each classic tub.
Although the cost remains the same – at around £7 across UK supermarkets – the tubs have fewer sweets than last year, weighing 550g instead of 600g.
It means that in each tub there is around 57 sweets or 19 servings instead of the usual 63.
Nestle’s full Christmas chocolate range
Nestle, the creator of Quality Street, has this week unveiled its full Christmas confectionary range.
White chocolate lovers can get their hands on a Milkybar advent calendar and a white chocolate selection box.
The brand’s new “White Selection” features treats such as a White Lion bar, KitKat White and Milkybar classics.
A new KitKat Gingerbread flavour has also launched, while the KitKat Santa Chocolate Sharing Bag is a perfect stocking filler.
It features five individually wrapped, mini milk-chocolate Santa figures with a crispy wafer and milk chocolate filling.
Meanwhile, lovers of bubbly Aero chocolate can get their hands on a new Giant Caramel flavour sharing bar.
Also perfect for kids’ stocking fillers are Nestle’s sharing cartons of Rowntrees sweets, including Rowntrees Randoms and Fruit Pastilles.
How to save money on chocolate
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don’t have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
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