Marks and Spencer hailed on Instagram for launching £1 Percy Pig muffins

With Christmas slowly creeping up on us, Marks and Spencer has announced a very tasty treat that we’ll all love for dessert.

The food store launched a muffin which tastes exactly like the beloved pig-shaped sweets.

They are – of course – completely pink, but Percy Pig fans shouldn’t let that put them off.

The Percy-flavoured cake, which comes with buttercream on top and filled with raspberry jam, only costs £1.

And the whole thing is topped with a single Percy Pig sweet.

Marks and Spencer slammed for RUINING Percy Pig sweets by making them 100% vegetarian

Available in the bakery section of each store, the treats were spotted by Kevssnackreviews on Instagram.

Unsurprisingly, Percy Pig fans were excited about the latest M&S treat.

One said: “OMG the Percy muffins.”

Another added: “Ooh you can always count on M&S to deliver the goods.”

Elsewhere in store, Percy Pig fans can pick up the advent calendar which contains 36% less sugar.

The calendar this year is a sweet pink and red theme, with joyful piglets ice skating on the front of the calendar.

It will launch in stores in the next few weeks and is up for grabs for an affordable price of £5.

M&S launch new Percy Pig Chews and customers can see the ‘full’ Percy for the first time

Earlier this year, Marks and Spencer was slammed for ruining Percy Pig sweets by making them 100% vegetarian.

The sweets are known for being pig-shaped and come in gummy raspberry, strawberry, cherry and grape flavour.

But when M&S removed the gelatine, an ingredient derived from animal bones, fans of the treat were not impressed.

Writing at the time, a Facebook user wrote: “They are not the same! Not even nearly. Even my five-year-old was not fooled.”