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The best chocolate advent calendars 2024
Can we fast forward to December please?
The countdown to Christmas - aka an excuse to eat chocolate every day for breakfast - is on, and what better way to plan for it than getting your hands on the best chocolate advent calendars for 2024? Whether you're after Hotel Chocolat's MASSIVE offering (we have our eyes on the Velvetiser calendar) or feel like being boujie and getting one from Fortnum's, or just fancy a classic Cadbury Dairy Milk calendar there's a chocolate advent calendar for every taste and budget.
Can it be December already? Oh hell, maybe we'll just get one for every month of the year while we're here.
Our top five favourite chocolate advent calendars:
- Best Overall Chocolate Advent Calendar - Hotel Chocolat's The Everything Advent Calendar
- Best Value Chocolate Advent Calendar - Cadbury's Santa's Workshop Chocolate Advent Calendar
- Best Chocolate Advent Calendar For Kids (Or Feeling Like a Kid) - 3D Teddy Advent Calendar
- Best For Variety Chocolate Advent Calendar - Tony's Chocolonely Countdown Fairtrade Calendar
- Best Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar - The Velvetiser Drinking Chocolate Advent Calendar
With 24 of Hotel Chocolat's most popular chocolates, we can't see any better way to start nearly every day in December. From a classic creamy hazelnut praline, to a tropical mango smoothie truffle, it's quite literally got every flavour of chocolate imaginable. Now if only we could open more than one a day at a time.
Cadbury Santa's Workshop Chocolate Advent Calendar
Sorry, but how cute is this advent calendar? For some reason the shape and art work of the Santa's Workshop calendar is just bringing out our inner child. And we're pretty excited by the treats inside too which include a Cadbury Curly Wuly, Cadbury Chomp, Cadbury Dairy Milk Buttons, Cadbury Dairy Milk Freddo, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chunks and Cadbury Fudge.
Lindt 3D Teddy Advent Calendar
Ok, now we're really hitting the cuteness overload. A chocolate advent calendar in the shape of a bear? Sign us straight up. Behind each door you can expect a variety of treats from a mini Lindt teddy to classic Lindors.
Tony's Chocolonely is easily one of our favourite go to every day chocolates, so in order to celebrate the festive season it seems only right we get a Tony's calendar too? It's jam packed with mini versions of our favourite flavours from classic milk chocolate caramel sea salt, to white chocolate raspberry popping candy.
Hotel Chocolat The Velvetiser Drinking Chocolate Advent Calendar
Not your traditional chocolate advent calendar, but it's a chocolate advent calendar all the same. We are obsessed with our Velvetisers (the greatest hot chocolate machines) and so cannot wait to try the Velvetiser calendar and experience 16 different flavours of hot chocolate across 24 days in the lead up to Christmas.
Fortnum's Chocolate Truffle Selection Advent Calendar
Feeling boujie? Then may we suggest spending every day in the lead up to Christmas trying one of Fortnum's chocolate truffles? With flavours from milk chocolate sea salt, to maple and pecan, to Christmas pudding, it's going to feel like Christmas has come early opening each of these little doors up.
White chocolate is seriously underrated and if you're a white chocolate fan, then you need to try this calendar which promises to not be "too sweet" and contains 24 adorable white chocolate shapes, each with a special message behind the door to brighten up your day.
Hotel Chocolat The Grand Advent Calendar
Grand in name, and grand in nature. Yes this advent calendar will set you back £80 but there is lot packed in behind those 24 doors including, but not limited to: a Mississippi Mud Pie slab, espresso martini Velvetised creme, a Velvetiser sachet and a festive milk wreath.
Dream of spending your days in a chocolate factory? Well you can (sort of) recreate the experience with this advent calendar from Lindt, shaped as their chocolate factory and full of 24 Lindt treats from Lindors to miniature teddy bears.
No debate needed, the Heroes box is the best chocolate tub at Christmas, so why not start early and begin the Heroes eating from 1st December, with a Heroes advent calendar filled with all your favourites from the tub.
Filled with 25 creamy milk chocolate shapes, including trees, teddy bears and Father Christmas himself, this advent calendar is ideal for any kids in your life, or you know, yourself.
Just want a classic, but great tasting advent calendar? Then you can't really go wrong with Hotel's Chocolat's which features a variety of fun milk chocolate festive shapes.
Get ready to countdown to Christmas with Butlers advent calendar full of 24 chocolates with unique flavours from salted hazelnut caramel to midnight ginger and passionata. Ok, we may need to start opening this before 1st December.
How cute is this? It's literally in the shape of a house and stuffed with 24 Kinder milk chocolates. Obsessed.
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