A chocolate bar that’s a Christmas dinner, beer made from Yorkshire Puddings and melt in your mouth macaroons hand made by Poirot, find food and drink that will put an extra smile on their faces this Christmas in one of the country’s finest food destinations – Ryedale, in North Yorkshire.

Here, in the market towns that make up Yorkshire’s Food Capital and Britain’s Capital of Cake, some of Britain’s best chefs, producers and artisans create distinctively delicious flavours for Christmas that you won’t taste anywhere else, such as:Birdgate-Chocolatiers-Chocolate-Bar-Christmas-Dinner-Pack

The Christmas dinner chocolate bar has everything you would expect from a festive feast minus the turkey and sprouts. Each section of the bar contains a different course: fruit cocktail, Christmas pudding and rum sauce, nut roast with salted caramel sauce and coffee and mints. It has been created by the masters of chocolate at Birdgate Chocolatiers, in Pickering, who handcraft chocolate creations using local ingredients and secret recipes. They have two other chocolate bars with festive fillings: Christmas Mulled Wine & Mince Pie Bar (made with Christmas spiced wine ganache, fruit and biscuit pieces) and Christmas Cracker made with popping candy.

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Yorkshire Pudding Beer (made with 100% real Yorkshire Puddings) is the latest speciality from new nano-brewery Malton Brewery, the smallest in the UK, where crafting is all about quality not quantity. From their brewery at Navigation Wharf, in Malton, they brew a maximum of 400 litres of beer per week, so taste is guaranteed.

Florian Poirot, UK Pastry Champion and winner of the Sugar Prize at the World Pastry Cup, is as famous for his mouth-watering macarons, chocolates and desserts, as Agatha Christie’s Poirot is for solving crimes. This master pâtissier, is also an exceptional craftsman of irresistible handmade chocolate bonbons, which you can buy from his patisserie in Talbot Yard, Malton.

Nine more top tastes for Christmas food and drink:

Award-winning mince pies fit for the Archbishop of York: pick up a freshly home-baked batch of exceptional Christmas pastries from one of the region’s many top-class artisan bakeries and patisseries. Thomas the Baker in Helmsley has scooped 11 international taste awards for its sweet mince pies (including a Gold at the Great Taste Awards, where the judge described them as ‘virtually faultless’!). The bakers have even been asked to send them to the Archbishop of York and the Houses of Parliament.

A show-stopping Christmas bird: How about a rare Christmas Cockerel? Or the bird chosen by the country’s top chefs? Traditional butchers like Overtons, Derek Fox Butchers or ‘Food to Remember’ in Malton; or Fletchers in nearby Norton; Dunnings of Pickering; Waind & Sons in Kirkbymoorside; or Marleys in neighbouring Helmsley, stock fresh, free-range, slow-reared birds from local farmers including Soanes, Yorkshire’s premier poultry supplier, Loose Birds of Harome and Herb Fed Poultry, whose birds are treated to a herb-rich diet – unique in the UK – that creates an extremely delicious flavour. Award-winning farm shops at Castle Howard near Malton, Beadlam Grange near Helmsley, the Whole Hogg near Malton and Cedar Barn near Pickering – all stock pampered poultry and the very best of British meat from their surrounding farm estates.