‘Tis the season to rigorously sample Christmas produce and report back our findings – it’s OFM’s special festive taste test. We asked pastry chef and Junior Bake Off’s Ravneet Gill to test a range of seasonal cakes, biscuits and crisps, and she bravely rose to the occasion. Here are her findings … Aldi novelty nutcracker musical biscuit tin £9.99, 400g, aldi.co.uk These are standard chocolate chip cookies, made with oil, no butter. The musical tin is cute but I personally would not give it to anybody. ★★ M&S Food all butter shortbread projection tree tin £8, 230g, Marks & Spencer These smell amazing. They are great, buttery, crumbly biscuits, but I’m deducting points for the kitsch light-up tin. ★★★ Sainsbury’s chocolate presents biscuit tree tin £5, 200g, sainsburys.co.uk The tin is really sweet, but the biscuits taste of nothing. They’re fine if you want that satisfying biscuit crunch, but not much else. ★★ Asda Delish gingerbread and caramel snow cake £12, serves 16, asda.com Three layers! Tastes like spice, ginger and sticky toffee pudding. Nice cake, not dry. It would be good on the table at an office Christmas party. ★★★★ Tesco Finest sticky toffee cookie tin £8, 390g, tesco.com It’s a nice tin – quite chic. Hmm, the biscuits have quite plasticky packaging. And they’re hard to bite into. I can’t finish that. It tastes like treacly molasses. ★ Selfridges spiced salted caramel biscuits £7.99, 200g, selfridges.com I like the cardboard packaging. They taste like a crispy, crunchy, milk chocolatey biscuit. They feel expensive – I’d give these to a friend that I liked. ★★★★★ Waitrose sweet snowman cupcakes £4.50 for four, waitrose.com They look nice for a party. The cupcake is moist and soft, which I like. But the icing is very sweet. Not something you’d want to eat if you had the choice. ★★ Fortnum & Mason Christmas merilossus biscuits £21.95, 600g, fortnumandmason.com These are beautiful. I’d love that as a gift. If you like spiced flavours, they’re for you. Absolutely delicious. ★★★★ BEST BUY Aldi Specially Selected Belgian chocolate and salted caramel cake £14.99, 967g, aldi.co.uk Excellent cake. I’d warm it up and have it with cold cream. It’s super sweet, but for a party it ticks all the boxes. ★★★★★ Marks & Spencer dark chocolate chilli tortillas £2.50, 150g, ocado.com I feel like you could buy them in an expensive deli. I’m going to give them five … Wait. It’s burning my throat. Ugh. Oh, no. I hate the chilli. ★★ Co-op Irresistible camembert and black garlic crisps £1.75, 150g, coop.co.uk Smelly cheese. Really in your face. I like that. The crisps are thin and would go very nicely with dips. I would serve these. ★★★★ Tesco Finest mature cheddar and apple chutney crisps £1.35, 150g, tesco.com Quite powdery. But the flavour’s really good: oniony-chivey and sour-creamy. It’s got a zing. Delicious. If you had people coming round, they’d be good. ★★★★ Waitrose turkey and stuffing tortilla chips £2, 200g, waitrose.com When you open the packet it wafts pine and rosemary, but they taste bland – a chalkiness of tortilla and an undertone of herb. No. ★ Aldi Specially Selected camembert, chilli and honey crinkle cut crisps £1.15, 150g, aldi.co.uk These smell like the pastry of a mince pie. Texturally they’re fantastic, but the taste is grotesque. Sweetness overpowers the whole crisp. ★ Lidl deluxe parmesan and truffle crisps £1.25, 150g, lidl.co.uk Yeah! Truffle and cheese! If you like truffle you’ll love this. I love truffle, so I’m very happy. It’s powerful but not sickly. ★★★★ Ravneet Gill’s latest book is Baking for Pleasure (Pavilion, £26). All items blind-tested