Chocolate Christmas

End of Season half price sale, 50% off Christmas chocolate from Hotel Chocolat.

Hotel Chocolat’s chocolate sale gives you a wonderful opportunity to buy some delicious chocolate, half price!

Discount chocolate from the luxury chocolate brand, a great way to buy your thank you gifts or to get yourself something yummy for half the price.

View all the chocolate on sale here. Hotel Chocolat is not the only online chocolate shop having a sale; even more cheap chocolate is available from other shops.

A wonderfully Christmassy chocolate box filled with a selection of twenty-eight individual luxury Hotel Chocolat chocolates especially for Christmas.

The Classic Sleekster Christmas Selection Box is the essence of the Hotel Chocolat Christmas collection, brought together in a sleek and festive chocolate box; the flavours of Christmas mixed with quality chocolate and moulded into beautiful shapes, and let’s not forget a dash of booze in one or two.

The Classic Christmas edition Sleekster contains twenty-eight Hotel Chocolat chocolates in sixteen different mouth watering recipes, including:

• Zesty Marzipan Star – Two festive layers of silky smooth almond marzipan and zesty orange truffle with a deep dark shell dabbed with edible gold.
• Christmas Mess – Upliftingly fruity mousse, made with white chocolate and lots of strawberry and raspberry and finished with crushed meringue and strawberry pieces.
• 40% Milk Christmas Tree – Hotel Chocolat’s signature milk chocolate with classic creaminess and a good cocoa hit.
• Cinnamon Praline – A dome shaped milk chocolate truffle decorated with a star, inside is a beautiful cinnamon and hazelnut praline combination. The cinnamon gives the praline a rich texture without being too dense or affecting the cocoa flavours.
• Ginger Cheesecake – The firm textures and sour cream notes of cheesecake on top of a layer of spicy ginger.

• Rum Truffle – Lashings of premium golden rum from Saint Lucia in a milk chocolate truffle.
• Champagne Truffle – Our uplifting milk chocolate and cream truffles with an elegant splash of champagne.
• Sea Salt & Caramel Bauble – 40% milk chocolate with crushed caramel pieces and a hint of sea salt to intensify the flavours.
• Mulled Wine – The traditional winter spice flavours of cinnamon, clove and bitter orange, with a generous splash of warming, ruby red port.
• Chilli Truffle – Deep and dark truffle with a mouth-warming chilli tingle, an alchemic combination.

A mixture of white, milk and dark chocolates, fruit, nuts, marzipan, chilli, caramel, cinnamon and ginger, some with and some without alcohol a cornucopia of flavours and textures all wrapped up in a Christmas chocolate box – perfect for sharing or as a chocolate Christmas gift.

If you are not a fan of boozy chocolates or don’t drink then Hotel Chocolat have created another version of the Christmas Sleekster, the Sleekster Christmas Selection Without Alcohol the same delightful selection of flavours, textures and shapes but without the alcohol.

The Classic Sleekster Christmas Selection and the Christmas Sleekster without Alcohol both have the same amount of chocolates, twenty-eight in each, and the boxes are both the same size, designed to fit through the letter box, making them the perfect gift to send through the post.

£22.00 for 28 Christmassy Hotel Chocolat chocolates.

Labelled: Vegetarian.

Final Delivery

Both Christmas chocolate boxes and all of the chocolates from Hotel Chocolat can be ordered right up until 4pm on Friday the 23rd of December for delivery on the Saturday in time for Christmas.

Christmas is just around the corner, and for those that haven’t quite finished the shopping, or just fancy some extra chocolate, these are the final delivery dates for Christmas 2011.

Only a few online chocolate shops have given specific times and dates for Christmas, hopefully more will soon.

Christmas Last Orders.

Express Delivery is either be Special Delivery by Royal mail, if they are not on strike again! or from a courier service; DHL, Parcel Express etc. and will cost more.

Because of the of the snow in some areas, it may be best to double check with the sites if delivery is effected and it might be better to use the next day option where you can – just to be safe.

cocoapod’s Build-A-Box personalised chocolate boxes, individual chocolates in a rectangle box and each chocolate can be personalised with a letter, shape or with a Christmas themed image to create a message in chocolate.

The Build-A-Box chocolates are chunky cubes of handmade Belgian chocolate and you can choose the type of chocolate and what goes on each one to create a unique box of chocolates.

There are three different box sizes to choose from, depending on the length of your message:

• The small has 16 chocolates, eight in each row.
• In the medium sized box are 27 chocolates, nine in each row.
• A massive 44 chocolates are in the large option, with eleven chocolates on each row.

You have a choice of either dark or milk chocolate squares for the letters, both give a dark background for the letters to stand out on.

The other squares, which can be used as spaces to break up words in your message, can either be left blank or you can choose fun Christmas decorations to go on them.

cocoapod have five different types and flavours of chocolates to go in the Build-A-Box, but the Christmas patterns are only on the milk, white and dark chocolates cubes. Fun dressed up penguins, jolly Santas, holly, stars, snowflakes and dots make up the Christmas range, but you can choose any of the other patterns to personalise your own box.

A simply, but clever, interface is used to select your letters and patterns or you can choose from some pre-made boxes, including “BAH HUMBUG”, “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”, “Thinking Of You At Christmas” and “Secret Santa” to name a few and you can still choose your own decorative squares. You can see all the different options here.

The cocoapod Build-A-Box chocolate boxes can be used to send a message to a loved one or as a gift for a family or friends to share, or you can be even more creative by using the chocolate blocks as decorations for your Christmas cake or even place names for your Christmas table.

Quality handmade Belgian chocolate with a personal touch, just one of the wonderful chocolate treats from cocoapod.

£7.50, small 16 chocolates.
£12.00, medium 27 chocolates.
£19.00, large 44 chocolates.

Labelled: Alcohol Free, Vegetarian, Wheat & Gluten Free.

A hamper of fun novelty chocolate shapes and figures for Christmas, ideal for children big and small.

Filled with a selection of chocolate novelties and presented in a ribbon tied hamper with a Jolly Santa on the front the kids chocolate hamper contains;

Three chocolate figures, decorated with coloured, white chocolate:

• A large milk chocolate Santa, carrying a sack and teddy bear.
• A grinning white chocolate snowman, dressed for Winter and carrying a broom.
• A very cute milk chocolate reindeer, playing in Santa’s sack.

And two bags of foil wrapped chocolate treats:

• A bag of milk chocolate stars, ribbon tied
• Santa tree decorations, also in a ribbon tied bag.

Each of these chocolates are also available individually, along with similar novelties, from the Chocolate Trading Company as part of their Christmas range.

£29.95

Labelled: Alcohol Free, Nut Free, Vegetarian, Wheat & Gluten Free.

Free chocolates from Hotel Chocolat! Hotel Chocolat have put together three Christmas chocolate gift sets and each one includes a free chocolate gift.

The three different “packages”, as they call them, include chocolates from right across the Christmas chocolate range grouped together by theme, the Kids’ Gift Package is aimed at children with cute, fun and novelty chocolates, the Finishing Touches Package has a selection of chocolate decorations for the table and Christmas tree and the Family Package contains Christmas chocolates for the whole family to share.

The Free Chocolates

Each of the chocolate packages has a different free gift, to compliment the different chocolates in the set.

The Chocolate Santa is free with the children’s package, included in the Finishing Touches Package is the decorative Mini Chocolate Wreath and in the family Christmas chocolate to share set are the Christmas Dinner chocolates.

Both the Santa and wreath are £6.50 and the small box of chocolates is £7.50, or £6.50 when you buy four or more, and each completely free when you buy the chocolate package.

Children’s Chritsmas Chocolate Set

The very cute Kids’ Gift Package has lots of little individual chocolates featuring the adorable Christmas chocolate characters; Jolly Santa, Dasher the Reindeer and Cool Penguin.

Inside the kids’ chocolate package is;

• Christmas at Santa’s House, a children’s gift box filled with fifteen chocolate shapes in 40% milk chocolate.
• Dasher the Reindeer Gift Basket, A really appealing gift basket featuring Dasher the Reindeer filled with two small boxes of chocolate shapes, a chocolate lolly and a mini chocolate slab.
• Christmas Stocking, a traditional Christmas stocking filled with Christmas chocolate treats; a box of white chocolate Santa, milk chocolate drops, a reindeer chocolate lolly and a mini chocolate slab.

And the FREE Chocolate Santa worth £6.50.

£56.00.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Alcohol Free.

Christmas Chocolate Decorations Set

In the finishing touches package are chocolate the bits and pieces for the home to make it a little more festive.

• Rather Large Christmas Cracker, possibly the largest chocolate filled Christmas cracker you can buy, this huge table decoration is filled with enough hats and jokes for twelve people and a massive forty individual chocolates.
• Chocolate Christmas Tree Decorations, a pack of ten little boxes with gold ribbons, for hanging from the tree, each on has a single chocolate inside.

And the free chocolate is the mini chocolate wreath worth £6.50.

£53.00.

Labelled: Vegetarian.

Christmas Chocolate Gift Set

A Christmas chocolate box and smaller chocolate gifts are included in the family pack;

• Christmas Chocolate Box, Hotel Chocolat’s bestselling Christmas chocolate box the Classic Christmas Sleekster filled with a selection of twenty-eight festive chocolates and Christmassy recipes.
• Nutty Noel Pick Me Up Gift Bag, a chocolate gift bag filled with a Selector of Cinnamon Almonds, a Selector Six of Gingerbread Truffles and a dark chocolate penguin bar.
• Christmas Mini Wreath, a rather wonderful wreath of luxury fruit and nut and milk and dark chocolate.

And a free box of chocolates worth £7.50.

£40.50.

Labelled: Vegetarian.

All available from the Hotel Chocolat website.

Cadbury biggest Christmas chocolate hamper, a traditional wicker basket filled with a selection of Cadbury Christmas chocolate and Cadbury favourites, only available online and exclusive to Cadbury Gifts Direct.

The Ultimate Christmas Hamper contains:

Seven Cadbury Selection Boxes:

• Two large; Cadbury Christmas Stocking and Cadbury Reindeer Selection Pack.
• Two medium sized selection boxes; Santa and Snowman.
• Two Cadbury Treatsize Character Bags; Santa and Reindeer.
• A large Cadbury Team GB Selection Box.

Two Christmas themed tubes filled with Cadbury Buttons and Cadbury Dairy Milk Chunks.

Two Cartons of Chocolate:

• Cadbury Dairy Milk Chunks Carton.
• Cadbury Koko Assorted Truffles Carton.

A gift box of Cadbury Wishes, a pouch of Cadbury Roses and a London 2012 Heroes Bus Tin.

Chocolate Stocking Fillers:

• Cadbury Snowman.
• A bag of Cadbury Snow Bites.
• Ten Magical Elves.
• A net of Cadbury Chocolate Coins.

And a pack of chocolate Christmas tree decorations.

A huge selection of chocolates from Cadbury, perfect for a family to share.

£80.00, largest chocolate hamper for Christmas from Cadbury.

What could be better than beautiful Christmas decorations making your tree and home more festive? Well for me its edible Christmas decorations!

With so many beautiful chocolate Christmas tree decorations available to buy from lots of different online shops, this is a quick list of some of them and the three main types of chocolate decorations for the tree; chocolate baubles, chocolate shapes and tree chocolates.

Chocolate Baubles

There are two different types of chocolate baubles, chocolate filled baubles and baubles made from chocolate either wrapped in foil or clear wrappers. Both types of bauble hang from the branches of the Christmas tree, either by a ribbon or cord already attached to the decoration.

Chocolate filled baubles tend to be a little pricier that normal baubles, but they can be refilled and reused year after year.

Heidel’s chocolate filled Christmas bauble features a jolly Santa Claus, the same design which matches the rest of the Heidel range, and is filled with mini chocolate bars. Thorntons bauble tin is bright red with silver and black detailing and also celebrates their centenary and inside are chocolate praline Melts. The Christmas Tree Baubles from Plush Chocolate each contain a bag of Belgium fairtrade milk chocolate caramels and are decorated in red and gold.

Chef Marshall at John Lewis has two chocolate baubles in ribbon tied clear wrappers, both in with the same Christmas tree design and in two different sizes; the Chef Marshall Chocolate Bauble and the Mini Chef Marshall Chocolate Bauble.

Foil wrapped chocolate baubles; Rita Farhi chocolate baubles come in a range of different coloured foils; reds, golds and blues, some with stars and some plain, presented in a clear box. The chocolate Christmas tree baubles from Montezumas are a mixture of milk, white and dark chocolate. Rita Farhi Chocolate Christmas Tree Decorations, similar to the chocolate baubles but with different shapes and colours.

The classic Christmas colours, red and gold, are used for almost all of the Christmas baubles meaning you can mix and match between brands and they will work well with each other and look fabulous.

Chocolate Shapes

Chocolate shapes are very similar to the Christmas tree baubles, they also hang from the tree with either a ribbon or cord, but they are different shapes and sizes.

The Chocolate Trading Company has a wonderful selection of chocolate novelties some of which hang from the tree, these solid milk chocolates are wrapped in festive foil with gold cords attached and are available in three different designs; Angel, Nutcracker Soliders and Santa.

chocolatebuttons stock the wonderful Christmas tree decorations from Plush Chocolates, along with the chocolate filled baubles, all of the chocolate from Plush is fairtrade and organic.

The Plush Chocolate Filled Christmas Tree Decorations are festive boxes filled with chocolate buttons, featuring cute designs with Santa, snowmen and reindeer, the Plush Chocolate Star Christmas Tree Decorations are solid star shaped chocolates, in milk, white and dark chocolate and the Plush Chocolate Filled Christmas Stockings are red and white fabric stockings which also have chocolate buttons inside.

Hotel Chocolat’s Chocolate Christmas Tree Decorations are individual chocolates in little boxes which hang from ribbons, in red, gold and purple in a pack of ten and Thorntons Chocolate Santa Christmas Tree Decorations are hollow milk chocolate Santas with cords in a box of nine.

Chocolate shapes are more novelty and fun chocolates; they work well with most themes and add some festive joy to a tree.

Tree Chocolates

Tree chocolates are chocolates which are not necessarily meant to be used as Christmas tree decorations, but ever since I was young we have always has chocolates in the tree, normally chocolate Santas or other foil wrapped chocolates, but you can use anything which is light enough to sit in the branches of the tree.

The Lindt Gold chocolate figures are ideal for decorating a tree, light enough not to bend larger branches and they add a splash of gold, along with the classic Lindt Gold Bell and Lindt Gold Reindeer is the Lindt Gold Bear, each of the Lindt chocolates are in gold foil with red ribbons round them.

Christmas crackers are always fun to put in a Christmas tree and two of Hotel Chocolat’s crackers will work perfectly; Hotel Chocolat Mini Christmas Crackers and Hotel Chocolat Chocolate Filled Christmas Cracker.

If you are decorating your tree with crackers, it would be a good idea to finish your tree first and then add the crackers after – this way when you take the crackers off it won’t look bare.

Hotel Chocolat’s Alternative Mince Pies; six milk chocolate cups filled with caramel, topped off with a layer of chocolate praline and a decorative star.

Presented as a small, gold, box of chocolates with black detailing and a clear window on the top so you can see the chocolates peeping through from inside.

I am not sure if these are alternative mince pies or an alternative to mince pies, I will go with the latter as they seem to be more chocolate cupcakes to me or rather a version of a cupcake made from chocolate, delicately fluted milk chocolate cups filled with a generous helping of salted caramel below a layer of praline and finished off with a chocolate star.

The case gives a gentle snap before the glossy caramel is released, the rich salted caramel is runny and almost liquid inside, and enriched with the salt the flavours are wonderful, added to that is the smooth layer of praline for extra texture and a hint more of chocolate.

The cupcake vs. mince pie issue aside the six chocolates in their little Christmas box are just delicious; sweet, sticky, gooey and rather indulgent, and I highly recommend them.

£7.50, 95g 6 chocolates.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Gluten Free and Alcohol Free

More Caramel Chocolates

The Alternative Mince Pies are much more about the salted caramel inside rather that the chocolate, if you are a fan of Hotel Chocolat’s caramel chocolate I would suggest either Chocolate Penguins or the Caramel Angels.

All from the Christmas 2011 chocolate collection.

Green & Black’s Christmas Chocolate Table Collection, bundles of miniature chocolates bars, Christmas favours for the table, tree decorations or mini stocking fillers.

Twenty four miniature chocolate bars from Green & Black’s tied up with ribbons into twelve little parcels each with two bars and presented in a gift box.

The mini bars cover most of the flavours available from Green & Black’s, dark chocolate, milk, creamy milk chocolate, white, milk with almonds and milk with butterscotch, dark with cherry and dark with ginger, a tasting collection for Christmas.

£16.50, 24 15g mini chocolate bars.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Oragnic and GM Free.

A Christmas chocolate is not just for kids, I am proof of that, chocolate seems to be aimed more and more at adults - especially the higher quality chocolate.

Chocolate advent calendars are now for grownups as well, chocolate gifts are more and more popular with chocolate truffles being bestsellers and chocolate Christmas hampers make ideal gives for a family or friends to share.

The chocolate box is always a wonderful gift, and at Christmas you have all the wonderful seasonal flavours that make them extra special, where I can I have labelled all the dairy free chocolate and gluten free chocolate, so nobody is left out.

Christmas themed chocolate gift hampers, for that added chocolate joy and luxury chocolate hampers for some festive fare.