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The weather outside may be cold, but cupcakes are hot at Edible Arrangements®. In less than a year since debuting late last summer, the Cupcake Collection has quickly become one of the most popular options among customers.

Featuring handcrafted fresh fruit arrangements and cupcake-shaped pineapple, dipped in gourmet white and semisweet chocolate and topped with festive sprinkles, the "cakes" are available in custom cupcake or birthday cake-shaped containers. Many guests make the arrangements even sweeter by adding chocolate dipped bananas or Granny Smith apple wedges to the arrangements...

We stumbled upon this artisan coffee purely because of the packaging. The colours, the retro appeal and the robots! We think they’re all so lovely you’ll want to buy the lot just to display the boxes!...

In a year where monthly food subscription boxes are growing, here’s another little gem we’ve found. Expect to see all manner of different things like this cropping up throughout  the year!

There’s not too much needed in the way of description for Le Parcel except to say that it’s a delivery of monthly necessities for the fairer sex! Ladies, never be caught out again because Le Parcel will always deliver.

Clever thinking though – let’s face it, it’s something that’s going to occur monthly whether we like it or not!...