Matt’s Cafe has tried to make 2020 a little better by running competitions for you to win prizes all through the year.
Well, December is the Christmas month, so that can only mean one thing, that’s Christmas competitions.
Christmas can be a challenging time looking for gifts for people, but here are a couple of gift guides that may help you with some ideas for people that you need to buy presents for:
Check out the Foodies Christmas Gift Guide

Check out the Lifestyle Gift Guide

Now let’s get into it, what is this competition for?
Well, this is to win a case of Fallen Brewing Beers this would make a perfect present for someone this Christmas.
If you want to make sure you get one of these for yourself, enter the competitions, leave hints or buy directly from Fallen Brewing.

To enter, there are a number of options, so enter as many ways as you can to maximise your chances to win.
While you are here, check out the other Christmas competitions to try your luck and see what you can win. The competitions will be running all through December, so make sure you have a go.
Terms & Conditions
You MUST be 18 or over to enter the competition. The prize must be claimed within 24 days of the winner being notified. This is a joint competition with Matt’s Cafe and Fallen Brewing.
Fallen Brewing will be sending the prize directly to the lucky winner. Once the prize has been dispatched the item is out of our hands and we’re unable to send replacement prizes.
All actions through Gleam must be completed, these will be verified and if the winner chosen is found not doing this, a new winner will be drawn. UK ONLY.
Check out some other competitions here.
pavlova crema dn fruit
Christmas pudding!
Sticky Toffee Pudding
We had a chocolate gateau – delicious!
The familt had christmas cake but I hate it so skipped desert, made up for it with the amount of cheese eaten haha
I dont think I’ve ever eaten dessert on Christmas Day! We’re always too full up!
A chocolate mousse in the shape of a Christmas pudding
We had Christmas pud and brandy cream – I struggled to find Christmas Pud anywhere in the shops, I asked on my local facebook page if anyone knew where I could get one and a lovely lady said that I could have hers! So lovely of her
Homemade Christmas pudding and brandy butter
Good old Christmas Pudding and Custard
Mince pies
christmas pudding
We has a chocolate roulade
Custard
A decadent creamy a brandy concoction
Toffee and maple roulade with ice cream
Christmas pudding and brandy sauce
Yule log!
Fantastic giveaway – good luck everyone!
Traditional Christmas Pudding for me!
Christmas pudding, of course!
Black Forest Gateau
Christmas Pudding.
We had Christmas pudding 🙂
We have warm mince pies with ice cream.
Sherry Trifle
Trifle home made how my nan use to make it
With Swiss roll soaked in Sherry on the bottom
I had a load of dairy milk chocolates this Christmas
we had home made meringues and mango and cream!
We had chocolate cake!
we had Christmas pudding with ice cream
Christmas pudding
We bought a raspberry pavlova for pudding on Christmas Day but we were way too full to eat it! We are planning on having it tomorrow instead
We had chocolate orange cheesecake with a scoop of choc orange ice cream 😋
Christmas pudding with brandy sauce
We had Manchester tart
Trifle
We had sticky toffee pudding!
ice cream mars bar – so light and refreshing
Trifle
Christmas Pudding and clotted cream
Home made chocolate cake.
All Christmas pudding haters in our house so trifle for us!
christmas pudding
We do not have desert with Christmas Dinner
We had bread and butter pudding followed by a cheese board definitely a diet on Monday!
Chocolate cake and squirty cream for us.
Chocolate truffles
Christmas Pudding with Cream
Vegan Trifle for us as someone doesn’t like raisins and sultanas.
Yule log
Yule log and cream
mince pies
a tough one! either profiteroles or Sherry Trifle
Cheese Board
Christmas pudding and custard.
we will be having traditional homemade trifle
As I’m not a fan of traditional Christmas pud, I had a syrup sponge with Brandy cream .. never again lol
ginger cake and brandy sauce
Panna Cotta
Sherry Trifle and Pavlova
I had a hot mince pie with brandy butter (and then later on I had another mince pie with double cream!)
We had home made Christmas Pudding made by me and Black Forest Roulade from Lidl and both were yummy
Nothing, we are always too full but have Christmas pudding a couple of days later
Christmas pudding
We had christmas pudding
Christmas Pudding
Trifle!
Christmas pudding
Christmas Cake
Christmas pud with brandy cream!!
We had a strawberry and white chocolate cheesecake yum yum
Chocolate gateau & Christmas pudding are the choices in our house x
Chocolate orange tart with freshly whipped cream! Delicious
We had a Chocolate Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce! Tastes amazing!
Home made chocolate cake & home made Caribbean Black Cake.
I had a chocolate roulade
If anything then cheese and biscuits as I’m normally too full by that point 😹😹
Christmas pudding
traditional christmas pudding and brandy sauce
We had a choice off Raspberry Pavlova or Christmas Pudding
We had sticky toffee pudding and it was so delicious.
cheese and biscuits
Christmas pudding for me
Trifle, always trifle!
We had chocolate brownie, caramel sauce and a choux bun.
Trifle
Christmas pudding and custard
Apple pie and custard
Mince Pies
Christmas Pudding
We enjoy something different each year but it has to be rich and chocolatey served with brandy cream. Yummy
Panettone
We had banoffee pie.
Christmas Pud
The husband LOVES trying new beers
Lemon cheesecake
We had a yummy biscuit Viennetta. It was very nice!
christmas pudding
raspberry roulade – i hate christmas pudding! 🙁
black forest gateux
We had Christmas Pudding! I also made my first ever Yule Log, with lots of brandy in the filling.
I made all of our Christmas puds this year so we had a choice of cheesecake, Tiramisu, black currant and white chocolate flapjacks, millionaire shortbread and chocolate Christmas tree churros
Christmas Pudding
Chocolate gateau with cream.
chocolate brownie
yule log and icecream
Panettone
always mince pies!
Christmas Pudding
Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding which we never end up eating so have it on Boxing day instead
Christmas pud
Rudolph Cheesecake from M&S with squirty cream, fresh cream and/or ice-cream!
Trifle is the traditional pudding of choice in our household
We had caramel roulade
Profiteroles nom nom
christmas pudding
We had trifle!
Sherry trifle
It was Xmas pudding and custard each
Some christmas pud!
We had homemade Sherry trifle for dessert on Christmas Day
SHERRY TRIFLE or a plain one as son says you shouldn’t have alcohol in food! also use angel delight (so 70s) instead of custard
Lemon Torte
yule log
We’ve postponed our family Christmas until June and I’m going to throw the works at it .
Christmas pudding and brandy sauce
We had a raspberry and pistachio ice cream bomb and it was delicious.
We had Lemon Meringue Pie light and refreshing xx
We had a fruit salad this year.
Home made Christmas cake
Christmas Pudding!
We always finish off our meal with some crackers and cheese, I dont have a sweet tooth so rarely make a desert
Baileys Cheesecake
Yule log
Hot mince pies with custard
Panettone. Not very traditional but we love it
Christmas pudding
Christmas Puddling with Cream
Homemade Christmas pudding and brandy butter
lemon cheesecake
Cheesecake!
Lemon cheesecake
We had trifle.
Yule Log
Christmas pudding
Christmas cake.
steamed chocolate pudding with rum cream
Christmas pudding and cream.
We had Christmas pudding with custard
A chocolate roulade because none of us like Christmas pudding!
Christmas pudding and custard
We had Sherry trifle. The two of us finished the whole thing in one sitting…..
Swiss Roll
We had a chocolate Yule log.
Christmas Pudding
Christmas pudding
We had melon for dessert, very refreshing, nice and light after a big meal
Daim cake
We had raspberry and white chocolate cheesecake
Christmas Pudding with brandy butter.
Mince pie and cream
We had a salted caramel bombe with a choice of custard, cream or ice-cream, was delicious
Christmas pudding and custard
We usually have Christmas Pudding, but I forgot to buy one this year, so we didn’t have a dessert 🙂
Homemade sherry trifle
Christmas Pudding
Cheese
Xmas pudding
Trifle
Sticky toffee pudding and custard
We had chocolate fudge cake because I have children who are fussy with what they eat
Chocolate log and ice cream
Yule Log and brandy cream
Trifle
Christmas pudding and Brandy butter
Homemade pavlova
Christmas puddings
I had Christmas Pudding and cream
Irish Cream Dome Gateau from Iceland. Not somewhere I normally shop and it as fantastic for £3.
We had a gorgeous christmas pudding.
We had a Yule log, a caramel mousse cake and the classic Vienetta
I didn’t have any dessert.
Mince pies and cream
Christmas Pudding and Brandy Sauce
Christmas pudding with cream.
we have a choice of either christmas pudding or chocolate fudge cake
Christmas pudding and custard (if I have any room left)
Christmas pudding and cream
Mince pies and custard
My husband always makes a Baileys cheesecake for our dessert. Mmm I can taste it now!
I am baking homemade brownies.
Blueberry oatmeal crumble
christmas pudding with custard!!
christmas pudding!
Yule log
We dont really have one as too full from lunch, but mince pies and irish coffee will be enjoyed later.
A small piece of strawberry gataux.
Christmas Pudding
Trifle
Never usually have room but if I do it will definitely involve chocolate
Christmas pudding and brandy butter x
Christmas pudding
Nothing. Will be too full of Turkey and brussels
we can`t stand christmas pudding—so it will be something chocolaty instead
trifle
My brother’s homemade Christmas pudding. Tastes nicer than any shop ones.
Christmas Pudding
Hopefully xmas pudding although my other half’s mum likes Black Forest Gateau (not a fan!!) and we are going there so I may have a mince pie instead lol!
we always have cherry and chhocolate trifle its delicious
this year we are having homemade cheese cake and yule log well it is christmas one dessert is not enough
Christing pudding yum yum
we never have dessert, after a starter, full dinner, booze – we cant do it x
Apple crumble!
Christmas Pudding for me!
I’m not sure yet, probably something indulgent with chocolate.
We will be having Trifle for some and Mince pies with extra thick double cream for others
We always have chocolate yule log and a token Christmas pudding
Chocolate Gateau is on the menu xx
Mince pies!
We have Yule log and Christmas pudding.
Caramel apple pie with ice cream for Xmas day dessert for us!
We are having chocolate gateau with brandy cream and mince pies
Christmas pudding with double cream and brandy butter
Christmas pud with brandy cream
An individual Xmas pud and cream for me, wifey and the kids will have chocolate cake.
A yule log or something chocolatey!
We will be having a yule log
Christmas pud
Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
Christmas Pudding & cream!
Christmas Pudding
Very traditional – Xmas pudding
Christmas Pudding
MINCE PIE WITH VANILLA ICE CREAM
Christmas Pudding
chocolate yule log and ice cream and mince pies
We are having a roulade. I already have it in the freezer
xmas pud, mince pies and xmas cake too!
I don’t like Christmas pudding, so it will be something chocolatey.
Mince pies and double cream
Homemade sticky toffee pudding
I’m having trifle and the rest of the family are having Christmas pudding
Christmas pudding
Salted caramel profiteroles
Black Forest Gateaux with cream 🎄
Christmas Pudding
We always have a trifle then something else aswell.
We will have choice of Christmas Pudding or sherry trifle
mince pie and cream
Probably something light like a roulade
yule log 🙂
We will have Christmas pudding and custard
No one other than me likes Christmas Pud so it looks like it will be mince pies and cream in this house but just ice cream for the kids! They are a boring lot
Christmas pudding, and a vegan chocolate lava cake that my mum makes! 🙂
Usually homemade steamed treacle pudding but this year…..who knows???
Christmas Pudding with brandy butter.
We’re planning a cream tea instead of the usual Christmas roast, so we’ll have scones and cakes
yule log
Flaming Brandy Christmas Pudding!
Chocolate gateau and cream.
Christmas pudding… Or chocolate cream cake for those who don’t like pudding
For desert we have a choice, we have a jaffa cake cheesecake, big eclair from Asda, mince pies or a white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake but we’re probably going to buy more, it’s for a few people not just me!
Christmas pudding. What else?
Christmas pudding 🙂
We call it “black forest trifle” – I make it like a trifle using chocolate swiss roll, brandy, bottled cherries, chocolate ganache, cream, more cherries and of course more chocolate.