Because, yes, your mum is worth it!
Latest trend for Mother’s Day? A £125 ‘thank you’ hamper
FoRGeT flowers, don’t buy her chocolates (yet again) and if you think you can get away with nothing but a card, you’re very much mistaken. This Mother’s Day, after almost a year of being separated from our loved ones, there’s no excuse not to really spoil your mum.
But lockdown restrictions mean you still can’t take her to her favourite restaurant or treat her to afternoon tea just yet, so what better way to celebrate — at a distance — than by sending a hamper of delicious treats to her door.
From gourmet chocolates and champagne to indulgent breakfast-in-bed goodies, we round up the most mouth-watering Mother’s Day hampers …
DECADENT TASTE The Mother’s Day VIP Hamper, £125, fortnumandmason.com
FoR the first time, Fortnum & Mason, the most famous of all hamper fillers, is offering a deluxe Mother’s Day version, comprising a luxury wicker basket crammed full of gorgeous treats.
There’s a variety of loose-leaf teas, crumbly biscuits, Florentines, salted caramel truffles and plum jam, as well as a bottle of its unique non- alcoholic sparkling rosé, which is made from a blend of teas infused with hibiscus. Designed for the ‘Very Important Parent’ in your life, you’ll just wish you were there to tuck in, too.
CHEESE TREATS Mother’s Day Cheese and Sweet Treats, £40, paxton andwhitfield. co.uk
IF YoUR mum prefers cheese to chocolate, this hamper filled with cheesy treats from fine cheesemongers Paxton & Whitfield will make her day.
Available in a strictly limitededition run of 60 boxes, the selection includes a cheeseboard of three artisan cheeses, a packet of Cornish buttermilk biscuits — and, to satisfy her sweet tooth — a box of creamy sea salt Cotswold fudge.
AFTERNOON TEA Tea in Mayfair Hamper, £50, marksandspencer.com
YoU don’t have to go to a posh hotel — when circumstances allow — to indulge in a delicious afternoon tea; instead, you can send your mum everything she needs to make one at home with minimum effort.
This Marks & Spencer option, which comes in a beautiful hand-woven wicker hamper, includes four Devon scones and jam (there’s no cream but they’ve thought of everything else), as well as shortbread squares, cherry Bakewell tarts and a jam-andcream cake. To drink, she can choose between a cup of luxury gold label tea or a glass of premium rosé prosecco — or both!
BREAKFAST IN BED Breakfast in Bed Hamper, £30, gails bread. co.uk
A lIe-IN is the least that hardworking mums can expect, so why not make her morning even better with a hamper of delicious treats?
This breakfast-in-bed hamper, from British bakery Gail’s, contains a freshly baked croissant and cinnamon bun, a loaf of sourdough bread, butter, marmalade, orange juice and house-blend coffee — plus a personalised gift card. It’s the perfect excuse for her to stay in pyjamas all day long.
BOOZY BOUQUET Pink Gin and Tonic and Lindor Bouquet, £24.95, funkyhampers.com
IMPReSS your mum with this entirely edible bouquet, made not from pretty pink-and-white blooms but miniatures of Gordon’s pink gin and Fever
Tree aromatic tonic, as well as strawberries and cream-flavoured lindor truffles. It’s elegantly arranged by hand, alongside a bunch of silk flowers, and presented in a gift box with a girly bow, it can’t help but put a smile on her face.
FASHIONISTA FAB Love You Hat Box, £50, harvey nichols.com
IF YoUR mum’s a shopaholic and missing days out at top department stores, this treat from Harvey Nichols will be a welcome distraction. Packed inside a chic black hat box, the hamper includes champagne truffles, strawberry jelly hearts, a pink tin of biscuits and caramelised cinnamon almonds.
There’s also as a bottle of rosé champagne, so she can toast the imminent return of shopping trips with the girls.
CUPCAKES OF LOVE Mother’s Day Cupcakes (box of six), £19.20, lolas cupcakes. co.uk
MUMS who love baking will love this box of decadent cupcakes from lola’s. Topped with iced hearts, flowers and love notes in pastel shades of pink and purple buttercream, they are available for delivery nationwide and come in boxes of six or 12. Just pretend you baked them yourself.