Novelty Chocolate Gifts for Christmas

Novelty chocolate is just fun plain and simple, delicious chocolate moulded into novelty chocolate characters and shapes.

You can get chocolate novelties all year round, but it is only at Christmas you get the chocolate Santas in various guises, cute reindeer, delightful angels and mischievous snowman, all cast in chocolate just to make you smile.

My favourite, for this year, has to be Dasher The Reindeer from Hotel Chocolat; a chubby little Reindeer dressed up in his winter scarf with a winsome face.

Cast in, hollow, milk chocolate with white chocolate decorating his face and tummy and dark chocolate used on his features, he weighs 150g and is just under 14cm tall, he is just the cutest!

Hotel Chocolat

Dasher The Reindeer also appears on two of his own chocolate slabs, a giant chocolate slab made of 40% milk chocolate with white snowflakes in the background and a, smaller, all dark chocolate slab.

Portly Santa and Frosty the snowman also have their own chocolates slabs in milk chocolate and white chocolate, respectively; bother with red berry flavoured chocolate decoration.

Santa and reindeer make many appearances in the Hotel Chocolat Christmas collection; on chocolate lollies, as Tiddly chocolate shapes and in advent calendars.

The Chocolate Trading Company

With the largest selection of chocolate Santas, chocolate Christmas tree decorations, Christmas figures and shapes, The Chocolate Trading Company, is the place to get the smaller chocolate novelties for Christmas. Most of the chocolates are sold in bags of fives, twenty’s or larger bulk options of about 120, depending on the product, making them great for parties and stocking fillers.

Alongside the selection of foil wrapped chocolates, to hang from the tree or add to a Christmas stocking, the Chocolate Trading Company also sells fine chocolate brands including; Amedei, Booja Booja, Michel Cluizel and Valrhona.

Lindt

Lindt’s foil wrapped hollow chocolate shapes, the Gold Bell, Gold Reindeer and the Santa have a more traditional feel about them, made from Swiss chocolate and each one finished with a ribbon and working bell.

Although Lindt chocolate is available in most stores and in a variety of sizes, the chocolatebuttons website has the largest selection and sell the Lindt 1kg Chocolate Santa.

cocoapod

Run by Linda and Philippa, two chocolate loving sisters in Kent, cocoapod create some really cute and fun novelty chocolate bars and shapes.

Their Christmas range is full of adorable characters on chocolate discs and you can personalise a block of chocolate with your own message in chocolate letters.

Rita Farhi

Rita Farhi’s Christmas range is based around praline chocolates balls wrapped in festive foils, these delicious little treats are fun by themselves, but putting them in see-through jars and covering the jars with knitted characters just makes them adorable.