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Tired of receiving the same old exchange gift item year after year? This Christmas, you don’t have to worry about getting presents you won’t even use because underneath that wrapper, there might be something good to eat!

Local French cafe Delifrance is taking a new spin to the traditional practice of the kris kringle and transformed into a city-wide phenomenon. With just a click on the My Secret Santa website (www.mysecretsanta08.com), you can get a bottomless sack of freebies to give away.

What’s great about the My Secret Santa is that it removes all the usual constraints of gift-giving. Everyone can become a Secret Santa and send delectable Delifrance treats to as many of their friends and loved ones. And yes, everything here is all for free.

Secret Santas partaking in this grand holiday gesture can choose from two special goodies: Almond Star Cookies (available from November 10 to 23) and Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti (available from November 24 to December 7).

Almond Star Cookies are almond-topped, gluten-free cookies that are a delightful cross between a light macaron and a sweet meringue. They’re incredibly soft and crumbly, but not too sweet. As a playful twist to the classic German Christmas cookie, the Almond Star Cookies can charm the most discerning sweet lovers in town.

Almond Star Cookies

Meanwhile, the Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti can turn up the holiday cheer with its choco-nutty goodness. The almond aroma is intoxicating and paired off with a steaming cup coffee, the Chocolate Almond Biscotti makes for an invigorating breakfast or a midnight snack.

Chocolate Chip Almond Biscotti

Everyone who receives a My Secret Santa e-mail gift coupon can redeem it for any of these treats at participating Delifrance branches in Metro Manila. Take note though that the actual treats are just a sampler of the photos shown above. And in the true spirit of gift-giving, the whole cycle repeats itself. Those who get a gift from their Secret Santa can be a Secret Santa themselves and pay forward the goodies.

With its My Secret Santa campaign, Delifrance is set to create Manila’s biggest kris kringle celebration and make this Christmas a sweet one for all Filipinos in the Metro.

To participate in the My Secret Santa campaign, simply log on to www.mysecretsanta08.com. (Note: the cookies you will send out are only a sampler, not the ones photographed above.)

For additional questions and inquiries, please contact the Main Office at 642-0021. Visit Delifrance branches at AIM Conference Center, Glorietta, Insular Life Bldg, RCBC Plaza, SM Makati, Ayala Tower 1, Valero Makati, Zeta Building Legazpi Village Makati, Robinsons Place Manila, U.N. Avenue, Festival Supermall, Alabang Town Center, SM Mall of Asia, The Podium, C5 Libis, St. Luke’s, Greenhills Theater Mall, Roosevelt Greenhills, Philippine Heart Center, Shell SLEX Southbound, Shell SLEX Northbound, Shell NLEX, NAIA – Domestic, NAIA 2 – International, NAIA – Old Domestic, NAIA 3, and International School Manila.