'I had a sneak peek at Hotel Chocolat's Christmas gifts - these are the ones I'm buying'

Hotel Chocolat is 1 of the go-to places for everything from Christmas presents to stocking fillers and advent calendars, and I took a sneak peek astatine this years selection

There’s nary specified happening arsenic Christmas without a chocolatey dainty oregon two, and Hotel Chocolat is 1 of the fig 1 places I caput each twelvemonth to banal up connected gifts. Whether I’m aft a small stocking filler, thing expansive to adhd to the contiguous pile, oregon an advent calendar (this 1 mightiness beryllium conscionable for me), it’s 1 of my must-shop places for Christmas gifts.

With the festive play rapidly approaching, I took a sneak peek astatine Hotel Chocolat’s Christmas offerings this year, and I’ve got 4 favourites that came consecutive location with me. My apical choices included a luxury advent calendar, 2 stocking stuffer-sized boxes, and immoderate adorable Christmas crackers to spell connected my array mounting this twelvemonth – and I’m already counting down until December to bask them.

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The Grand Advent Calendar, £80

The biggest and priciest happening connected my database of favourites is The Grand Advent Calendar. It mightiness beryllium a spot of a splurge, but it’s much than worthy it successful presumption of some worth and the sheer joyousness that it’s going to bring maine opening up the doors each day. There are 24 doors to open, and caput you these doors are not small. Each 1 is ace generously sized and features things from each corners of Hotel Chocolat’s cocoa goodies.

You’ll get chocolat slabs, idiosyncratic filled chocolates, sachets of the brand’s signature blistery chocolate, mini crackers and adjacent a mates of bottles of velvetised pick liqueurs. Many of the flavours are inspired by Christmas, too, including salted caramel, mulled wine, gingerbread and champagne. This is simply a mega-sized advent calendar, and feels luxurious capable to marque the terms tag good worthy it successful my opinion.

Mini Chocolate Christmas Crackers, £19.95

If you’re sick of the accustomed contents of your Christmas crackers, these Hotel Chocolat mini ones are the cleanable mode to springiness your Christmas meal array mounting an upgrade. You get 10 successful a box, though you tin bargain smaller sized boxes if needed, and each 1 contains a festive cocoa treat. There’s adjacent abstraction to constitute your guests’ names, truthful they tin treble up arsenic spot settings too. Although they’re perfect of your table, their tiny size besides makes them cleanable for decorating your histrion with instead, truthful you tin assistance yourself passim the pb up to Christmas.

Christmas Chocolate Supernovas Salted Caramel, £5.95

Ok afloat disclosure, these didn’t adjacent past agelong capable to beryllium photographed for this article. I couldn’t assistance but tuck into them, but that does mean I tin corroborate they are perfectly delicious. They’re the cleanable size for a stocking filler, and their bargain terms means they marque a large enactment for concealed santas too. You get 5 chocolates included successful the container and they’re a decent size, making them cleanable for a small indulgent evening – arsenic I tin intelligibly attest to. Although the salted caramel filling gets apical marks from me, if it’s not your flavour of prime you tin besides get plentifulness of different flavours too, including champagne, coffee, praline and acheronian chocolate.

A Waddle of Penguins – Chocolate Penguins Gift Tin, £12.95

These were excessively adorable to permission behind, and person firmly cemented their spot connected my must-have list. Arriving successful a keepsake metallic tin, the Waddle of Penguins acquisition acceptable is simply a gorgeous stocking filler for kids and large kids alike. It’s the cleanable size to acceptable into a stocking oregon arsenic a smaller gift, and contains 9 individually wrapped penguin-shaped chocolates which are stuffed afloat of runny caramel. Rather than being a elemental cocoa cast, the penguins each person brightly coloured yellowish wellies which gives them an other adorable touch. You tin adjacent re-use the tin erstwhile you’re done to store everything from crafty bits to Christmas decorations acceptable for adjacent year.

As good arsenic Hotel Chocolat, Cadbury has besides launched its Christmas cocoa acceptable to beryllium stocked up connected successful clip for the festive season. From icons similar tins of Roses and enactment boxes to winter-themed cocoa bars and treats, we’re already starting to get into the Christams spirit.