In just one week’s time it will be Mother’s Day 2021, are you ready to treat the lady that means the world to you? Whether it’s your Mum, Mother-in-Law, Step Mum, Nan, or the wonderful mother figure in your life, she deserves something fabulous.
Words by Rachel McAlley
We’re thinking that there’s nothing better than food and drink, therefore we’ve popped a few ideas below for something tasty and quaffable.
Food
Montezuma’s, Mum’s The Word Truffle Collection, £14.99, Montezuma’s
The Extraordinary chocolate company, Montezuma’s, has launched the perfect gift for Mums this Mother’s Day. A mouth-watering collection of 16 milk chocolate hearts with salted caramel and dark chocolate hearts with hazelnut praline in an eye-catching pink box.
Moreover, Montezuma’s delicious chocolate truffles are handcrafted to bring you the very best of luxury truffles, carefully packaged in 100% recyclable packaging.
Mon Dessert, Mother’s Day Petits Fours Bundle, £55, Mon Dessert
Whether you set a Zoom date to keep your mother company while she has her chef whites on, or you organise a Mother’s Day Bake Off Mon Dessert-style, make sure your Mama smiles.
Mon Dessert’s Mother’s Day bundle come with simple recipe guides, video tutorials, ingredients and special tools. All of which can be used to create some famously difficult desserts while learning professional level pâtissier techniques.
The Petit Fours Bundle includes the Madeline kit with enough ingredients to make nine delicious petit fours.
Charlie & Ivy’s Mother’s Day Luxury Gift Hamper, £95, Charlie & Ivy’s
This hamper consists of two bread dippers, two dressings, two mayonnaise, two handcrafted stoneware dipping bowls, a handmade Yorkshire board, two bread dipper pourers, and a Plewsey One in a Million card.
Charlie & Ivy’s have partnered with ceramicist, Alison Bradley to commission bespoke stoneware dipping oil bowls that are made in Filey. Plus, furniture maker Kelvin Lund to produce handcrafted wooden boards. Uniquley, the Yorkshire boards are made using spalted beech from a North Yorkshire estate and finished with cold pressed rapeseed oil that protects and enhances the natural colour of the wood.
Food & Drink
Bolney Wine Estate, Bolney Afternoon Tea Hamper, £112, Bolney Wine
A luxury afternoon tea is the perfect way to celebrate Mother’s Day and best of all, this year you can surprise your beloved mum with a Bolney hamper. Packed full of sumptuous goodies and delivered straight to her door. She’ll find an array of tempting tea-time sweets, including: clotted cream shortbread, marmalade, truffles, salted caramel popcorn and a slider of English fudge. Coupled with a tin of loose-leaf afternoon tea, and a bottle of Eighteen Acre Sparkling Rosé and Lychgate Rosé.
Alcoholic Drinks
ST-GERMAIN Spritz Kit, The Petillante Set, £185, McQueens
ST-GERMAIN Elderflower Liqueur has partnered with McQueens flowers, with the launch of the new Mother’s Day Spritz Kit. As a result, it will add a touch of French ‘joie de vivre’ to the celebrations.
This limited-edition gift* features a stunning McQueen’s Mother’s Day floral bouquet, inspired by the freshly handpicked elderflower blossoms used to create the iconic liqueur. Equally, you will find everything required to make a ST-GERMAIN Spritz cocktail. Including a bottle of ST-GERMAIN Elderflower Liqueur, bottle of Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut Champagne, Perrier Sparkling Water, a pair of art-deco glassware, carafe, and recipe card.
*This limited-edition kit will be available to London residents only*
Ketel One Vodka (70cl), £20, Amazon
Ketel One’s family expertise spans over ten generations and is a brand built on one-to-one conversations with the bartending community. It’s no wonder it tastes so good! Each final production is approved by a family member before bottling. This ensures a sophisticated and crisp, wheat based, super-premium blend goes in every bottle.
In other words, this is the perfect gift for the most wonderful family member, your mum.
Partridges London, Chelsea Flower Gin Twin Pack, £75, Partridges
This gorgeous gift set includes the original Chelsea Flower London Dry Gin, and the Chelsea Flower No’2 Bergamot Infused Gin. Indeed, this is a win win for all gin-loving Mums this Mothering Sunday.
Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Bird & Blend Tea, Bloomin’ Marvellous Tea Bouquet Gift Box, £27, Bird & Blend
This Mother’s Day, independent tea mixologists Bird & Blend are celebrating all the ways you can be a mum, with a range of gifts.
Choose from one of two handmade bouquets of dry flowers, made in collaboration with independent florist Skelmersdale Flowers. Likewise, the flower bouquets have been carefully paired with a tea blend by Chief Mixologist Krisi.
Rose Pink & All Things Nice! A brightly coloured rainbow of dried flowers, containing fragrant dried Roses. Inspired by ‘All Things Nice’ Tea blend; a luxury white tea made from beautiful rosebuds and heavenly jasmine!
Lilac & Lady Lavender – This purple and pink eye catching bouquet of dried flowers, contains sweet smelling dried lavender! Inspired by Bird & Blends ‘Lady Lavender’ Tea; a fragrant twist of lavender meets the tingly bergamot taste of earl grey!
Each gift box contains one flower bouquet with their paired tea, plus a pack of tea sacs, presented in a beauTEAful bespoke gift box!
Coffee-Direct.co.uk, 12 Coffee Gift Pack, £29.99, Coffee-Direct.co.uk
The 12 Coffee Gift Pack is the ultimate gift pack for coffee lover mums. It features twelve of cofeedirect’s finest coffees from around the world, available as whole beans or pre-ground for popular brewing methods. Neatly packaged in a gift box, these twelve remarkable coffee varieties offer a wealth of diverse flavours. This exciting selection is bound to delight your mum on Mother’s Day! In addition, within the box is a beautiful Coffee Guide, providing useful information about these exquisite coffees.
