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Macaroons for Christmas?

Ilze's Chocolat • Nov 02, 2018

Macaroons remain as popular as ever and this Christmas season we expect that they will be given as gifts, or be used to add that special touch to many celebration tables. But of course macaroons have to be enjoyed fresh if both the vibrant taste and the delicate texture are to be preserved. So how can you ensure that your macaroons will arrive at just the right time?


This year, we will be using Royal Mail's "Guaranteed by 1pm Next Day" delivery option for orders that are placed on our website for delivery on a specific date. While this option is slightly more expensive, it will ensure that if you ask for delivery on a specific weekday, you can be confident that it will arrive, despite the normal high demand for deliveries during the busy season. To choose this option, all you have to do is select "Reserve delivery for a specific future date" as your delivery method during checkout, and add on the next page the date on which you want delivery to take place, under "ORDER COMMENTS". We will do the rest!


By the way, if you want us to send the product off to someone else, it gets even better: We will hand-write your message on a card of your choice, add gift wrap, and send it off to the recipient without you having to do anything further! How do you do this? Visit our Greetings Cards page, where you can select a greetings card to go with the gift and enter the message that you want us to hand-write in the card.


Finally, for those of you who want to place your orders close to Christmas, here is a reminder that
we can take orders up to Thursday the 20th December and exceptionally Friday the 21st, if you want to select "Next Day Saturday" as your delivery option.

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