Christmas gift ideas: food - £20 and under

Handmade chocolates using seasonal ingredients, these will make you look more generous than you have been.

Baruzzo chocolates, usually £14 for 12
Reader offer: buy for £10 using the code Guardian (valid until 23 December).
Buy online at loveyourlarder.com Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian

This creamy, handmade Lancashire cheese is beautifully encased in muslin and wax: cut off the top and scoop it out or slice: it will start a discussion.

Lancashire black bomb, £12.99
Reader offer: enter the code 'Guardian' at checkout to buy for £12.99, including delivery
Buy online at churchmousecheeses.com Photograph: Sarah Lee

William Curley makes exceedingly high-quality chocolate. The former chief patissier at the Savoy hotel, he has been named Britain’s Best Chocolatier for the past five years by the Academy of Chocolate.

Hot chocolate, £14
Reader offer: buy for £10 using the code GuardianHotChoc until 9 December
Buy online at williamcurley.co.uk Photograph: Sarah Lee

A selection of 72 top-quality organic, ethical, green, black and herbal teabags, all in a nice tin. Every envelope feels like a huge treat.

The tea selection, £14.95
Reader offer: enter the code 'guardian' at checkout to save £5 until December 9
Buy online at londontea.co.uk Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian

Why send a card when you can send a biscuit?

Tin Soldier biscuit card, £9
Buy online at biscuiteers.com Photograph: PR

Jing Tea are obsessive about the aesthetics of tea drinking. Their Chinese-style cup with a lotus flower design should suit any who share that passion.

Blue pearl teacup, £10
Buy online at jingtea.com Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

Posh cotton candy strands that just dissolve in the mouth. Available in five flavours.

Pariya Persian Fairy Floss, £9.95
Buy online at harveynichols.com Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

An unflinching memoir from the New York chef who also has a master’s in creative writing, making it an excellent buy for foodies and those who just like a good read.

Blood, Bones & Butter, £10.39
By Gabrielle Hamilton
Buy online at the Guardian Bookshop Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

The Cochon Basque pig is native to the French-Spanish border and is renowned for its excellent taste. Try these salamis with a subtle chilli flavour.

Saucisse Seche, £7.50
By Pierre Oteiza
Buy online from thehamandcheeseco.co.uk Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

Dry the dishes with any one of 100 tea towels in designs commissioned from a range of artists. This one by Stuart Gardiner updates an old slogan to comic effect.

Small Brain tea towel, £9.95
By Robert Ryan
Buy online at todryfor.com Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

Chosen by Dan Lepard, the Guardian's How to Bake columnist: 'A bendy, silicone, heat-resistant spatula – not the most romantic gift but neither is a tenner. And if anyone needs a post-pudding spanking, you’re all set.'

Colourworks spatula, £7.50
Buy online at johnlewis.com Photograph: PR

Chosen by Yotam Ottolenghi, one of the Guardian's food writers: 'Currently my favourite chocolate. This, with a double espresso, and I am sorted.'

Venezuelan 72 Rio Caribe superior dark chocolate, £2.99
Available online from williescacao.com Photograph: PR

Chosen by Fiona Beckett, the Guardian's wine writer: 'There’s something fabulously flashy about a magnum and this has the bonus of being a real crowd-pleaser. Famous producer, good vintage, good value.'

Chapoutier Côtes du Rhône 2009, £18.99
Available online from averys.com
Photograph: PR

A thick chocolate skin and a great dollop of velvety caramel inside. A very grown-up sweet treat.

Three chocolate lollies, £5.95
By Paul Wayne Gregory
Buy online from paulwaynegregory.com Photograph: Romas Foord/PR

Mixologists’ favourite New York firm, Fee Brothers, have been making cocktail bitters and mixes for 150 years. Flavours include peach, grapefruit and old-fashioned.

Cocktail bitters, from £6.63
By Fee Brothers
Buy online at thedrinkshop.com Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

This icing set contains 28 nozzles, two icing bags, flower nail, coupler and instructions. Dan Lepard says: 'No more 'me and my spoon', your icing will be transformed'

Deluxe bakers icing set, £14.47
Buy online at dentonscatering.com Photograph: Sarah Lee/Guardian

This clever rolling pin allows you to measure thickness and width when rolling out pastry.

Measuring rolling pin, £15.50
Buy online at fortnumandmason.com Photograph: PR

Mayfair’s Mount Street Deli, part of the Caprice stable, oozes quality – and you can grab some choice items on mail order. Browse at themountstreetdeli.co.uk.

Raspberry vinegar or rosemary olive oil, £4.50 each
Call 020 7499 6843 to order Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

A unique savoury biscuit made by the Moores family since 1880. A delicious accompaniment to cheese.

Dorset Knob biscuits, £8.95
Buy online at grovesnurseries.co.uk Photograph: Romas Foord/Guardian

For the cook who refuses to look dowdy, food blogger Cara Waters of gourmet-chick.com recommends this apron from Anthropologie, which brings a touch of glamour to the kitchen.

Rosy prim apron, £14.95
Buy online at anthropologie.eu Photograph: PR