Gallery: Brands Celebrate the Season With Holiday Releases
Brands celebrated the holidays this year with a slew of seasonal plays offering consumers sweet snacks, stocking stuffers and dishes fit for holiday meals. Check out the gallery for this season’s notable festive releases, including sweet twists on salty classics from Beanfields and LesserEvil and holiday ice cream flavors from NadaMoo!, Halo Top and High Road.
LesserEvil
LesserEvil capped off a year of innovative seasonal releases with four new holiday launches. Gingerbread Cheesecake Mini Cookies and Dark Chocolate & Himalayan Pink Salt Organic Popcorn are sold at Whole Foods and the brand’s website, while White Chocolate & Matcha Organic Popcorn and Gingerbread Paleo Puffs are sold exclusively online.
Bobo's
Bobo’s seasonal gingerbread bar, spiced with nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and all-spice, is offered in 12-packs for $29.88 on the brand’s website and Amazon.
Magic Spoon
Grain-free keto-friendly cereal maker Magic Spoon added a Gingerbread flavor to its lineup for the holidays, featuring 11 grams of protein and three net carbs per serving and sold in 4-packs and limited edition holiday bundles.
Foodstirs
The launch of Foodstirs holiday kits mark the first time the brand's signature baking kits have been sold in retail. With an MSRP of $14.99 to $19.99, the kits include the brand's signature mixes, reusable cookie cutters or donut pans, natural dyes and decorations.
Chosen Foods
Chosen Foods rolled out Simply Cinnamon Avocado Infused Cooking Spray, a cooking spray infused with real cinnamon, now available on Amazon for $7.99.
Endangered Species Chocolate
Endangered Species Chocolate offered shoppers Fudgy Peanut Butter + Milk Chocolate, a Fair Trade-certified 48% cocoa milk chocolate bar, which will join the brand’s previously launched seasonal flavors Caramel Spiced Apple + Dark Chocolate and Peppermint Crunch + Dark Chocolate. The bars hit shelves at retailers including Kroger, Sprouts, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market and Wegmans.
Halo Top
Halo Top’s Gingerbread flavor has returned this holiday season. The 360-calorie pint has hit shelves nationwide at a suggested retail price of $5.49.
Primal Kitchen
Primal Kitchen released a Snickerdoodle flavor of its Collagen Fuel collagen peptide drink mix. Made with coconut milk powder and vanilla extract, the keto-friendly mix is sold on the brand’s website for $39.99.
High Road
High Road released a holiday collection of three new flavors -- Toffee Toasted Almond, Strawberries & Espelette and Chocolate Hazelnut Swirl -- sold in a six pint pack for $60 on the brand’s website.
Built Bar
Built Bar’s Candy Cane Brownie flavor contains 17 grams of protein, four grams of sugar and 130 calories, sold in packs of six ($14.95) and 18 ($37.80).
Beanfields
Beanfields released two new flavors of its grain-free Vegan Cracklins line inspired by holiday favorites: Pumpkin Pie and Mexican Hot Cocoa. Made with beans, cassava flour and chickpea protein, the seasonal flavors are sold for $3.29 to $3.69 at Sprouts and on the brand’s website.
Lark Fine Foods
Lark Fine Foods is offering a range of holiday-flavored treats this season including Russian Tea Cakes, a Holiday Shortbread Trio, St Nicholas Cookies and Chocolate Mint Sables, all sold on the brand’s website.
Lenny & Larry's
Lenny & Larry debuted Gingerbread and Peppermint Chocolate cookie varieties, which have joined its previously launched Pumpkin Spice flavor for a 13-cookie Holiday Variety Pack sold on the brand’s website for $23.95.
Lily's
Lily’s launched a range of no sugar added holiday treats this season. Three new chocolate bars (Gingerbread Milk Chocolate Style, Mocha Hot Cocoa Extra Dark Chocolate and Peppermint White Chocolate Style) are sold on Amazon and in stores nationwide. In addition, two new baking chips flavors -- Peppermint White Chocolate Style and Pumpkin Spice -- launched as Walmart exclusives.
Maxine's Heavenly
Better-for-you cookie maker Maxine’s Heavenly rolled out two seasonal flavors this year: Gingerbread and Chocolate Peppermint Candy Cane. The oat-based cookies, sweetened with coconut sugar and dates, can be found on the brand’s website and Amazon.
NadaMoo!
Coconut milk-based frozen dessert brand NadaMoo! released a seasonal Peppermint Bark flavor, which features peppermint pieces mixed with chocolate fudge, now available at Whole Foods nationwide.
The No-Bake Cookie Co.
The No-Bake Cookie Co. relaunched its Dark Chocolate Peppermint Cookie for this holiday season. The gluten-free cookies are sold in 4.3 oz. singles ($2.49), 7 oz. pouches ($4.99) and 8 oz. bakery tubs ($4.99) at retailers nationwide and on the brand’s website.
Chamberlain Coffee
Chamberlain Coffee’s Holiday Blend features notes of chocolate, graham crackers and cinnamon and is offered in fresh grounds and whole beans for $20 per bag on its website.
RightRice
Alternative rice brand RightRice launched two savory seasonal offerings, Brown Butter Sage vegetable-based rice ($3.99) and a Holiday Stuffing Medley with ancient grains ($4.99). The vegan and gluten-free offerings have both hit shelves at Sprouts.
Bushwick Kitchen
Bushwick Kitchen’s Tree Knees Bourbon Maple Syrup is sourced from a farm in New York’s Catskill Mountain and features notes of vanilla, oak and caramel. The syrup is sold on the brand’s website for $24.99 per bottle.
Violife
Violife launched an EPIC Dairy Free Festive Platter featuring three varieties of plant-based cheddar: Mature Cheddar, Smoked Cheddar and Garlic & Chilli. The platter is available at Wegmans, Giant, Gelson’s and Market of Choice with a suggested retail price of $10.99 to $11.99
Portland Coffee Roasters
Portland Coffee Roasters released its Holiday Roast in conjunction with its 13th annual Holiday Roast fundraiser, this year benefiting Food 4 Farmers. The seasonal roast is available at Portland Coffee Roasters’ cafes and its website, as well as retailers, through December 31.
Theo Chocolate
The 2020 Holiday Collection from organic chocolate maker Theo Chocolate includes Peppermint Crunch 70% Dark Chocolate and Gingerbread Spice 45% Milk Chocolate chocolate bars along with peppermint-flavored Cocoa Cups, Marshmallows and and Drinking Chocolate. The collection is sold at select Kroger banners as well as on the brand’s website.
Belcampo Meat Co.
California-based grass-fed meat company Belcampo Meat Co. is offering a range of regeneratively farmed pre-seasoned meat cuts this holiday season. Available for nationwide shipping through its website, the brand’s holiday meats include Organic Seasoned Leg of Lamb, Pasture-Raised Seasoned Pork Roast and Organic Seasoned Whole California Chicken.
Rule Breaker
Gluten-free, allergy-friendly treat brand Rule Breaker Snacks’ holiday launch is Mint Chocolate Brownie Bites. The plant-based bite-sized brownies, featuring white and dark chocolate chips and peppermint, have 100 calories per serving and are sold in 4 oz. bags on Amazon.
Wildway
Texas-based grain-free added two new seasonal flavors, Pumpkin Spice Latte and Dark Chocolate Peppermint Bark, which join its previously launched Gingerbread flavor on shelves this season. As part of the brand’s We Rise collection, Wildway will donate 10% of sales for the three flavors to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation.
