Top Five Panettone for Christmas 2025

The Christmas season paves the way for many indulgences, but one of the best is adding a light fluffy slice of Italy’s much-loved sweet seasonal bread to your daily routine. Put the kettle on, lightly toast a slice of panettone and smother in butter – because it’s Christmas! They also make for a crowd-pleasing gift when turning up to December parties and you can make a mean festive bread and butter pudding out of any leftover panettone once it loses freshness!

Check out our top 5 panettone for winter 2025.

Ottolenghi Panettone Sour Cherry & Custard Panettone

Phoooar. Italy's classic Christmas bread makes a delightful gift for turning up to seasonal parties with. The Ottolenghi Panettone Sour Cherry & Custard is a cut above the rest. Made in Italy by artisan bakers Pasticceria Scarpato, this new sour cherry and custard panettone is the result of over 25 tastings. Deliciously light with added moistness thanks to the custard chunks, and the sweetness is offset by the sour tangy cherry cutting through. This was so good it even won over the panettone haters in our household. Delightful.

£36

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Carluccio’s Panettone Tradizionale

Panettone producers Signora Audasso and Signor Minetti have been working with Carluccio's for over 30 years, in the beginning, supplying Antonio's original Neal Street Deli, next to his famous and loved restaurant in Covent Garden. Carluccio’s Tradizionale Panettone comes from Piemonte made by a recipe that has been passed from generation to generation. Carluccio’s Panettone takes a very long time to make involving lots of mixing and kneading to achieve the bread’s light fluffy nature. The first dough is made with flour, eggs, butter and sugar and then left to prove overnight. The following morning the specially selected dried fruit and candied peel are mixed into the dough. It’s then left to prove for another 4 hours and then baked for an hour at the ideal temperature and then left to cool for 14/16 hours. What really gave this panettone the edge though was the 'glassato' - a sweet, nutty hazelnut glaze that is added just before it’s popped in to the oven.

£28.95

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Valentina Dubai Chocolate Panettone

Jumping on the trend that shows no sign of waning, Valentina Italian delis have a new Dubai Chocolate panettone this year. The panettone is handmade in Piemonte by the same family who’ve been perfecting the recipe since 1922. They still bake using their original sourdough mother, fed daily with flour and water, before each cake is shaped and decorated by hand. This Dubai chocolate version gives the classic Italian bread a chocolatey pistachio edge. We're big into the bright green packaging too.

£35

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Fortnum & Masons Christmas Limoncello Panetonne

Packaged in a gorgeous brightly coloured keepsake hat box, Fortnam & Mason's Limoncello Panettone is an eye-catching offering.

Candied lemons have been baked into the sourdough, which undergoes 48 hours proofing. Artisanal Limoncello from a small producer in Sorrento, made from Amalfi lemons has been combined to give this bread an extra-indulgence.

£49.95

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Gail's Mandarin & White Chocolate Panettone

Also innovating with new flavours, Gail's has a Mandarin & White Chocolate panettone on shelves this year. Sun-dried mandarin gives the bread an extra fruity edge and added subtle sweetness comes from the white chocolate. You can pre-order and collect from your local Gail's up to 22nd December.

£35

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