With the heavy burden of shopping and the anxiety of seasonal crowds, it’s only natural that there are some tasty enticements to get us to take a break and relax a little. Here are a few morsels:

–Dunkin’ Donuts celebrates the season with a new flavor: Peppermint Mocha Latte. They also have a special $1.99 small hot latte offer for the new drink and their other choices such as Caramel or Mocha Swirl til the end of the month. Don’t forget that the Peppermint one comes topped with whipped cream and a little mocha squiggle.

–IHOP decided their coffee needed an extra holiday buzz: They’ve added four new flavors to ease our caffeine habit: Hazelnut, French Vanilla, Irish Cream, and Swiss Mocha. They also decided to sweeten their pancakes with several new flavors such as gingerbread and eggnog hotcakes.

–Bruegger’s Bagels does not want to miss the sweet boat and has two new flavors: a Cinnamon Roll Bagel which gets topped with vanilla icing. They also introduced a Cinnamon Cream Coffee.

–Krispy Kreme brought back their snowman-shaped doughnuts.

These are just some sweet thoughts. So many more.

Guess no one thinks we should be watching the calories. All these super-sweet choices should help us reach a sugar high within minutes!

Think I’m there.