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.

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.

The Discovery Christmas chocolate hamper from Godiva, a round leather gift basket filled with a selection of Christmas chocolates.

• Limited Edition Truffles: A long gold and green box of Godiva classic truffles with new limited edition recipes for the season.
• Godiva Milk Chocolate Tablet: A large milk chocolate bar, 31% cocoa smooth and creamy chocolate.
• Godiva Christmas Gift Box: A selection of twelve classic Godiva chocolates in a red Christmas gift box.
• Godiva Classic Chocolate Box: Godiva signature Gold Collection with pralines, caramels and ganaches, with a festive satin red ribbon.
• Godiva Chocolate Spread: A jar of luxury chocolate spread.
• Godiva Christmas 2011 Bear: An adorable teddy bear dressed for winter, with a jumper and scarf and “Godiva 2011” embroidered on his left foot.

A wonderful selection of chocolates, with a cute bear presented in a unique basket, perfect a gift for one or broken up into chocolate gifts and stocking fillers for more.

£70.00, a hamper of Christmas chocolates from Godiva.

More Godiva Hampers

The Godiva Discovery is the smallest of three Christmas chocolate hampers available from Selfridges. The other two are the Luxury and the Indulgent.

Each hamper contains limited edition chocolate boxes and seasonal recipes, and each is presented in the luxury leather box.

The largest Christmas chocolate hamper from the Chocolate Trading Company, filled with a selection of the Chocolate Trading Company’s own chocolates and chocolates from Michel Cluizel and Niederegger marzipans.

The Christmas hamper contains:

Two boxes of chocolates:

• The Superior Selection Christmas box, a chocolate box with twenty four chocolates in twelve different flavours, a selection of milk, dark and white chocolates, finished with a Christmas design.
• Niederegger’s Marzipanerie, a selection of flavoured marzipans covered in chocolate.

Chocolate covered treats:

• Orangettes, candied orange enrobed in a fine dark chocolate.
• Kirsch cherries, Morello cherries soaked in Kirsch and covered in fine dark chocolate.
• Dark chocolate, 60% cocoa, covered caramelised almonds from Michel Cluizel.

And three Christmas gifts:

• A bag of Christmas stars, individually foil wrapped milk chocolates shaped like stars.
• A Chocolate Santa.
• A bag of, 72% cocoa, hot chocolate flakes.

Presented in a Christmas themed Chocolate Trading Company hamper, with a similar design to the box of chocolates, finished with a satin ribbon and “Merry Christmas & a happy new year” on the lid.

£75.95

Labelled: Vegetarian.

One of the best things about Hotel Chocolat, apart from the fantastic chocolate of course, is the amount if effort they seem to put into their seasonal chocolate collections and Christmas 2011 is no exception.

Their colour scheme for this year is festive red, deep purple and vintage gold mixed in with Hotel Chocolat’s signature black and white, the range is brought together with an intricate star motif which features on, almost all, of the Christmas chocolates.

Most of the range is available to buy now; some hampers and some gifts will be ready closer to Christmas. You can see all of the Christmas chocolate on Hotel Chocolat’s site here. These are some of the wonderful chocolates ready at the moment.

Chocolate Boxes

At the heart of the Christmas range is a chocolate box called the Classic Christmas collection; milk, dark and white chocolates with and without alcohol in Christmassy shapes and flavours presented a seasonal Sleekster box.

The Classic Christmas Sleekster is always very popular and sells out fast.

The Classic Sleekster comes in three sizes; Double Layer (only available online), Luxe and Sleekster with fifty-six, forty and twenty-eight individual chocolates respectively. The Double Layer Classic is the largest chocolate box in the Christmas collection. The Classic collection is also available without alcohol, also with thirty chocolates but with the recipes containing booze removed.

The two Christmas Sleeksters, Classic and Without Alcohol, also come in H-Box size; the same flavours and recipes as the larger versions but in a smaller box containing thirteen chocolates, and colour coordinated.

For anyone familiar with the Simple Thanks mini chocolate box, you will be very pleased to know Classic collection also comes in the “eight” box and the even cuter “four” size, these miniature boxes make great gifts (and table favours).

So that is most tastes and budgets catered for in just the boxed chocolate selection, and one of two of my Christmas gifts bought already – they make great gifts in any size.

Chocolate Decorations

Simple calling the chocolate decorations is quite simply doing them an injustice. These decorative chocolates not only taste fantastic but look wonderful too, intricate chocolate wreaths and chocolate filled Christmas crackers, all in a variety of sizes.

Probably my favourite are the Christmas chocolate wreaths, chocolate beautifully sculpted into dramatic Victorian style wreaths, thick chocolate packed with a luxury fruit and nut in milk and dark chocolate.

The chocolate wreaths come in two sizes, large and the very cute but just as beautiful and delicious, mini wreath. The Purist Christmas Wreath is made from Hotel Chocolat’s award-winning 66% Rabot Estate dark chocolate and is dairy free/vegan. The other two wreaths are a mixture of both milk and dark chocolate.

For a more traditional Christmas look and feel, Hotel Chocolat have created their own Christmas crackers, mini cracker chocolate tree decorations and the very impressive Rather Large Christmas Cracker filled with chocolates, party hats and favours for all to share.

The large chocolate wreaths and the large Christmas crackers make wonderful centre pieces for a Christmas table and are complimented flawlessly by the mini wreaths, used as table favours, or the mini cracker tree decorations as they are all in matching colours.

Christmas Themed Novelty Chocolates

Fun shaped novelty chocolate slabs and figures, probably meant to be chocolate for kids, but I love them – I just think they are so cute they would make anyone of any age smile!

The milk chocolate 3D figures are hollow and come as two different characters, Dasher the Reindeer and Jolly Santa,

Both Dasher and Santa are part of the Christmas chocolate slabs line-up and are joined by the white chocolate Snowman. Santa and the Snowman have berry flavoured chocolate scarves and Dasher is all dark chocolate and dairy free.

Chocolate Stocking Fillers

Gorgeous little boxes of scrummy chocolates, perfect stocking fillers, handy little chocolate gifts or treats for you!

The Tiddly chocolate boxes are one of the cheapest chocolate gifts from the Hotel Chocolat Christmas range, they are available in four flavours; milk chocolate, caramel, white and vegan/diary free dark chocolate.

The three different shapes, snowman, reindeer and Santa Claus are the same charming characters as the chocolate slabs and novelty chocolates – perfect for children.

Slightly larger than the Tiddly chocolate boxes are the Chocolate shapes, in slim elegant boxes in three Christmas varieties; dark chocolate chilli penguins, Angel shaped caramels and “Christmas Dinner” shaped chocs.

Chocolate Yule Logs

Hotel Chocolat’s take on a Christmas tradition a chocolate version on the Yule Log, a choice of three flavours; chilli and orange, ginger and hazelnut or simply nutty.

Bars of gianduja studded with candied fruits and nuts, perfect stocking fillers for a foodie, a chocolate gift or dessert.

Children’s Christmas Chocolate

Quite a lot of the chocolates from Hotel Chocolat are ideal for children, especially the fun shapes and characters, but they have also created some gifts just for kids.

The Children’s Gift Box, Santa’s House, is a box filled with fifteen milk chocolates in fun shapes and Dasher the Reindeers Gift Basket has a selection of chocolate boxes and a mini chocolate slab in a very cute reindeer basket.

Giant Chocolate Slabs

And of course the giant chocolate slabs, festive versions of the famous huge chocolate bars weighing in at an impressive 500g, half a kilo. Wonderful Christmas gifts and perfect for sharing.

That’s quite a lot of chocolate and there is still more to come for Christmas 2011 including; flavoured hot chocolate, chocolate covered fruits, winter chocolates, chocolate hampers, gift sets, gift bags and a Christmas stocking! You can see everything on their website here.

One of Cadburys chocolate hampers for Christmas the “Christmas Magic Hamper”, one of two medium sized hampers filled with Cadbury chocolate treats.

A rather large collection of selection boxes, boxes of chocolates, chocolate biscuits and sweets, making it ideal for sharing with family and friends or work colleges or as individual chocolaty presents, packed into a hamper.

The “Christmas Magic Hamper” from Cadbury contains:

Three Cadbury selection boxes:

• A Giant Selection Box, exclusively available online.
• A Winter Selection Box and a Medium Santa Selection Box, filled with your favourite Cadbury bars.

Five boxes of Cadbury chocolates:

• Four cartons of chocolate; Cadbury Eclairs, Cadbury Roses, Cadbury Heroes and Christmas Chunks.
• A true classic, a box of Milk Tray.

A selection of treats and sweets:

• Two pouches of chocolate; Cadbury Giant Buttons and Caramel Nibbles.
• A selection of Cadbury Dairy Milk bars.
• 400g Cadbury Collection Biscuit Tin.
• Cadbury Chocolate Coins.
• Two bags of chocolate Snowbites and Cadbury Wishes Star.
• A selection of sweets.

£50.00 Christmas hamper of Cadbury chocolate.

A Montezuma’s chocolate goodie hamper filled with an assortment of milk and dark chocolate treats for Christmas and a selection of chocolate bars.

‘Turtle Dove’ is the smaller of the two chocolate Christmas hamper’s from Montezuma’s, an assortment of Christmas chocolate and a few favourites from the permanent range.

Presented in a gift box tied with a Christmassy ribbon the chocolate hamper contains:

• Mini Bar Gift Box: Ten mini chocolate bars, two of each flavour Dark with Chilli, Dark Side & Butterscotch, Dark Peru with Sea Salt, Very Dark and Smooth Milk.
• Christmas Dainty Dollops: Thin dark chocolate drops flavoured with mandarin and butterscotch.
• A bag of Christmas Truffles: A selection of Christmas inspired chocolate truffles.
• Christmas Drinking Chocolate: 54% cocoa with Christmas spices to create a warming hot chocolate.
• The Organic Stack: Four of the Foundation chocolate bars, dark, milk and white chocolate.
• And a 45g Snackle Bar.

£39.99, six gorgeous chocolate treats in a Christmas gift box.

Labelled: GM Free, Preservatives / Additive / Colouring Free and Vegetarian.

Montezuma’s ‘Leaping Lord’ chocolate gift hamper, the largest of Montezuma’s Christmas chocolate gift hampers.

A perfect Christmas gift to share with family and friends, a selection of ten chocolate gifts from Montezuma’s in a Christmas hamper.

Montezuma’s ‘Leaping Lord’ chocolate gift hamper contains:

• A box Montezuma’s chocolate truffles, special flavours for Christmas.
• Large milk chocolate Christmas tree.
• Chocolate and marzipan Stollen.
• Forbidden Fruit, chocolate covered brazil nuts, ginger and cherries.
• Milk and dark chocolate snowmen, solid organic chocolate snowmen.
• Fab Four, four of Montezuma’s organic chocolate bars.
• Milk Brazil Choco:Block, a block of milk chocolate with brazil nuts.
• Kirsch Cherries, cherries soaked in Kirsch and covered in dark chocolate.
• Chocolate for Drinking No.1

£100.00

A great chocolate hamper for the family to share, packed with Hotel Chocolat chocolates for everyone.

Sparkling Prosecco wine for the adults to share over a selection box of chocolates, chocolate treats for the children, a hamper of chocolate for the family with flavours to discover and enjoy.

Hotel Chocolat’s Christmas Bliss Chocolate Hamper contains:

The Hotel Chocolat Christmas Selection Chocolate Box; the Christmas edition Sleekster. A box of 40% Milk Chocolate Batons, slim bars of solid chocolate cast in Hotel Chocolat’s house blends. A cute bag of chocolate covered Brazil Nuts; roasted Brazil nuts tumbled in ultra smooth milk chocolate and cocoa powder.  Christmas Pralines Chocolate Box; a praline selection box. A box of cute Tiddly Snowmen. A bag of Snowball Munchkins.  A box of Dark Chocolate Chilli Penguins.  A box of milk chocolate Festive Fairies.  A tub of Winter Liquid Chocolat.  A gorgeous Cookies & Caramel Chocolate Wreath and a 75cl bottle of Prosecco.

All presenetd in a smart white, Hotel Chocolat, box.

£100.00, 2.5kg hamper of Hotel Chocolat chocolates.

Labelled: Vegetarian.

All the Cadburys chocolate you and your family need this Christmas all in one Cadburys chocolate Christmas sharing hamper.

A tasty selection of Cadbury chocolate favourites, great for sharing with family and friends or a easy way to buy fantastic Christmas gifts and stocking fillers all in one go.

The Cadburys Chocolate Christmas Sharing Hamper contains:

Three Cadbury chocolate bar selection packs:

• Large Stocking Selection
• Super Winter Selection Box
• Reindeer Selection Pack

Two Cadbury chocolates packs:

• The New Cadbury Roses Pouch 700g
• Cadbury Heroes Carton 220g

Two Cadbury Bitesized Bags:

• Cadbury Chocolate Raisins 200g
• Cadbury Chocolate Peanuts 200g

Two Cadbury Dairy Milk Bars:

• Cadbury Dairy Milk Bar 230g
• Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel Bar 140g

A tin of Chocolate Biscuits 400g, the small version of the Extremely Cadbury Chocolate Biscuits Tin, a selection of Cadbury treats including Cadbury Chocolate Coins, a tube of Dairy Milk Buttons, a Cadbury Dairy Milk Tube and a packet of Snowbites.

£35.00