Stollen Crispsīased on the traditional German Stollen holiday treat, these crispy crackers are embedded with raisins, powdered sugar and orange lemon peels. The packaging is simply a clear bag with a pale blue background, unbranded as a holiday treat. Shareable Shortbread French Butter Cookieīaby, this thing is the size of a dinner plate! It’s a $7.99 butter cookie topped with sliced almonds and is made for sharing with a half-dozen other people or let’s be honest, a dozen. Or the Winter Wake Up Tea is a spicy black tea blend with hints of cinnamon and ginger in royal blue packaging with snowflakes and scrollwork. You can try the decaf Candy Cane Green Tea in happy packaging, showing an illustrated polar bear in a sweater on an ice floe drinking his tea while candy canes bob in the waters around him. It’s a medium dark roast of Arabica ground coffee in a cheerful red canister decorated with a gingerbread boy. Not sure how the world feels about these flavored coffees, but if you’re game, this huge 14-oz vessel will deliver gingerbread-flavored coffee for weeks to come. The packaging shows a handful of the treats with a blue illustration of Big Ben in London with a sprig of holly. This year, we came home with the canister of toffee, a crunchy buttery center surrounded by creamy chocolate dotted with chopped nuts. The dark chocolate stars come in a blue and white box with a Hanukkah or winter-themed geometric stars layout, and the mini dark chocolate mint stars are in a lime green box with stars, swoosh lines and a star-shaped cellophane window to see the product inside. Trader Joe’s is on board with Dark Skies initiatives with its two kinds of boxed stars, featuring shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate. Need we say more? It comes in a green and black tin and is made of bittersweet chocolate shavings with natural peppermint flavoring. This is what you need to sit by the fire sipping, and maybe Santa would prefer a mug of this instead of milk. The box doesn’t especially scream Christmas or Hanukkah, but it’s located next to the Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s in a red and white box with an old-fashioned font and scrollwork. This one consists of crackers covered in milk chocolate, sprinkled with toffee, diced almonds and a hint of coffee. Sugar abounds, and we have to mention yet another holiday treat. Salty Honey Toffee Milk Chocolate Covered Crackers The box is a lovely Tiffany blue with red and white accents and, of course, peppermint straws depicted. These soft, minty, bite-sized chocolate creams let you skip the guesswork of a box of chocolates and just get to the good stuff immediately. We personally find the chocolate dipping takes this just a step too far, but the original Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s are perfectly balanced for the sweet tooths among us. If you want to upscale them further, you can buy the Dark Chocolate Covered Peppermint Joe-Joe's Cookies which are the same thing but dipped in chocolate and placed in different packaging. Speaking of Joe-Joe’s, these ones with crunchy peppermint cream filling dotted with candy cane bits are splendidly delicious and gluten-free. Crazy decadent! The box is black with red and green accents to hint at Christmas. These large pretzels are slathered in a peanut butter candy coating, which is good enough on its own, but then the whole affair is sprinkled with dark chocolate candy-coated rounds (essentially, M&Ms) and Joe-Joe’s cookie bits (essentially Oreos). They’re delicately rolled wafer cookies with four choices of filling and make for an easy hostess gift. Housed in a cute blue cylindrical container decorated with a snowscene and red fox, these batons come in four flavors: hazelnut, cocoa, cookies and cream, and chocolatey orange. Year-round, Trader Joe’s has wonderful meringues.these just put a holiday twist on it, with a colorful packaging label showing round candies. This come in a clear plastic carton so you can see the white and pink meringues inside. Here’s a listing of the 15 best ones we found on a recent shopping trip! 1. It’s frankly fun to cruise around and collect a cartful of these celebratory offerings … along with the mundane groceries you have to get anyway. You’ll find peppermint flavored this and that, winter-themed teas, gingerbread in many forms, and festive end-caps (those displays that “cap” the end of an aisle). Right now, every aisle at Trader Joe’s has something you won’t see again for a year after the holidays come to a close.
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