Christmas is almost here and, as you may have noticed, I’m publishing more and more articles on this theme. Today, I’m going to make your mouth water (well, I hope so…) with my selection of chocolates to enjoy during the festive season. Because personally, I think one of the great pleasures of this holiday period is definitely the culinary one. It’s the perfect occasion to treat our taste buds and eyes with refined delicacies, often more expensive than what we usually eat. But hey, these are special moments, and we should know how to enjoy them! What would Christmas be without a few sweet treats based on chocolate or other delicacies… I dare not imagine it… Here is a selection—obviously not exhaustive—of chocolatey sweets and treats for the holidays!
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Patrick Roger
2024 Christmas Collection
For his 2024 Christmas collection, the famous chocolatier is bringing back the Chamboule-tout (knock-down) game, featuring a Madagascar chocolate pea tin at the center.
Patrick Roger 2024 Christmas Chocolates
Price: €55 for the chocolate Chamboule-tout tin
La Maison du Chocolat
The famous Parisian chocolatier, founded in 1977, is committed to traceable cocoa sourcing all the way to the producer. Their chocolates are free from artificial colors, flavorings, GMOs, and palm oil. The brand also offers eco-designed packaging and is dedicated to optimizing its wrapping. Furthermore, all their boxes are 100% recyclable (excluding the ribbon).
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“Paris Eternel” 2025 Christmas Collection
This 2025 Christmas collection, centered on the theme of “Paris Eternel,” was illustrated by the duo Alex & Marine. The result: a Paris of fine lines and free-flowing strokes where monuments blend with vegetation and building facades are intertwined with cocoa pods. This year, La Maison du Chocolat celebrates the living architecture of Paris with its perspectives, rhythms, and metamorphoses. For 2025, the two Christmas edition chocolates are a praliné almond-hazelnut with roasted rice bits coated in milk chocolate, and a 77% dark chocolate ganache, pure origin Vanuatu.
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“Accords Insolites” Collection: oysters & chocolate
In this collection, Nicolas Cloiseau offers unusual, unexpected, and innovative pairings. And for the holidays, there’s nothing like matching the briny notes of an oyster with those of dark chocolate. A surprising combination to discover!
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2024 Christmas Winds Collection
In 2024, chef Nicolas Cloiseau offers an odyssey about travel and desires for far-off lands, centered around the compass rose and the four cardinal points. It includes a unique artistic piece produced in only about ten copies, entirely handmade. To taste: the rose-of-the-winds bite (€30 each) filled with an almond-hazelnut praline; the Christmas boxes with assortments of La Maison du Chocolat chocolates (ranging from €36 to €150).
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2023 “Sous la Neige” Collection
In 2023, Nicolas Cloiseau was fascinated by the geometric nature of snowflakes, and the collection that year was immersed in a frosty nature theme. Included: the very limited edition “Flocon de Neige” (Snowflake) artistic piece (€2,800 / size 7.9kg); “Flocon de neige” praline bites (€30 each); Christmas gift boxes that include the signature recipes and 2 new 2023 creations: a 72% dark ganache from Haiti and a corn praline with crushed roasted corn bits (24 pieces €34 / 40 pieces €52 / 60 pieces €76 / 112 pieces €140).
La Maison du Chocolat
Link to the online shop
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2022 “Noël absolument cadeaux” Collection
In 2022, Nicolas Cloiseau presented a juxtaposition of gifts—tall, long, round—including, as every year, an artistic piece called “Sapin Vertige de Cadeaux.” The chocolate boxes were decked out in green and red. For this collection, La Maison du Chocolat was committed to responsible sourcing, but also to manufacturing eco-designed packaging with 100% recyclable boxes made in France and Belgium.
La Maison du Chocolat 2022 “Noël absolument cadeaux” collection
Price: 24-piece box €33 / 40-piece box €49 / 60-piece box €73 /
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2021 “BOULEversante, boule de Noël” Collection
This year, chef Nicolas Cloiseau brings us a festive collection: “BOULEversante, boule de Noël” with a play of piercing and light in trompe-l’œil.
On the program: a limited edition “bouleversante” Yule log (€120) with Solliès fig, 69% Sao Tome pure origin chocolate, and almond praline; Christmas ball ornaments with chocolate and dried fruits (€28); the “Bouleversant” Christmas box with a 100% recyclable cardboard container (starting at €30 for the 24-piece box); the BOULEversante de Noël, a limited edition artistic piece entirely handmade (€2,000).
La Maison du Chocolat 2021
BOULEversante collection
Hugo & Victor
Place Vendôme 2023/2024 Collection
For the 2023/2024 winter collection, chef Hugues Pouget offers a collaboration with jeweler Bäumer Vendôme with a Place Vendôme collection to brighten up the holidays. Notably with this Vendôme notebook, a box of chocolates adorned in the colors of the Maison Bäumer Vendôme, whose various signature jewelry creations adorn the 12 chocolate candies.
Carnet Vendôme by Hugo & Victor
Price of the 12-chocolate box: €25
BienManger
The site Bien Manger.com, which has existed for over 23 years, is an online gourmet grocery store that offers gourmet gifts. It sources quality products from every region and country.
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The Chocolate Box
This pretty printed wooden basket is ideal for chocolate lovers. It contains a box of chocolates, fancy truffles, a gourmet spread, and even cereal pearls coated in chocolate.
BienManger Chocolate Box
Price: €39.95
La Vie Claire
This brand, specialized in organic products, offers a Christmas range every year with gourmet artisanal creations. Their milk and dark chocolates are organic, but they are also responsible and made with respect for the environment. On the program: chocolate moldings (milk chocolate Santa Claus / price €6.99), organic praline papillotes (€8.99), praline-hazelnut chocolate rocks (€9.99), milk and dark chocolate mendiant duo (€6.99), fleur de sel truffles (€6.99), milk chocolate marshmallows, cocoa-coated almonds, a milk-dark-white hazelnut trio…
La Vie Claire
Puyricard
This chocolate shop (which also makes confectionery and ice cream) is located in Provence and has been a family business since 1967, passed down through 3 generations. The chocolates are made in an artisanal and traditional way, using carefully selected ingredients with excellent raw materials and no preservatives or freezing. The Maison Puyricard offers Christmas ballots for the holidays with a selection of fine chocolates and pralines.
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2025 Collection
In the 2025 collection, there are Tree cards, festive tablets available in 2 new recipes: a milk chocolate version with apricots, crispy feuillantine, and raspberry crunch pearls, and a dark chocolate version with candied oranges, Piedmont PGI hazelnuts, and shredded coconut (price €12). We also tasted the bag of Christmas fried treats, which contains small tasting chocolates in the shape of a snowman, a tree, or even a Santa Claus (prices starting at €18).
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2024 Collection
In the 2024 collection from Puyricard, there are chocolate balls shaped by hand, a must-have to slide under the tree or share with family (price €32). We also received Christmas fried treats. They are shaped like snowmen, trees, or Santa Clauses, and they are perfect for decorating holiday tables or filling gifts (200g bag €16.40).
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2023 Collection
In 2023, Maison Puyricard offered a Christmas collection inspired by the charm of Scandinavian lands, with a “Féérie Nordique” (Nordic Fairytale) collection. On the program: ballots with reindeer and Santa Claus-shaped moldings in dark and milk chocolate, filled with hazelnut pralines. You also had the “Joyeux Noël” dark chocolate tablet pure origin Ghana (€9) at 72.5% cocoa.
Puyricard
Price: ballots at €33 for 250g with the praline subjects
Monbana
This French brand has been specialized in chocolate powder since 1934, and in 2022 it opened its 1st Parisian boutique in the 16th arrondissement (213 avenue de Versailles 75016 Paris). The Mayenne-based chocolate shop now has 28 stores in France and offers 250 specialties around chocolate: to drink, to snack, to taste, to cook… Always with 100% natural ingredients and French manufacturing.
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2025 Collection
In 2025, the chocolate shop celebrates with a collection full of magic. We tasted: the treat duo (€6.95) with an assortment of Crousti-neige (white chocolate chips with coffee flavor) and Crousti-pralinéa (cereal chips coated in milk chocolate with praline); the “Douceurs de Fêtes” tree-shaped gift box, which brings together 3 treats: the Crousti-Fêtes, the new limited edition crisp coated in milk chocolate with orange flavor and sprinkled with cinnamon, the Nougatine and chocolate chip Cookie, and the Milk cereal Square (€9.95); the holiday tablets (€5.90) with the milk chocolate tablet embellished with rice pearls and coffee flavor and the dark chocolate “mendiant style” tablet, sprinkled with almonds, caramelized hazelnuts, and dried raisins. And finally, the holiday pouch (€9.95) to make your own advent calendar (it contains 24 small chocolates) with Crousti-Pralinéa, dark or milk chocolate sticks, and milk-caramel Praliz.
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2024 Collection
The 2024 collection, in gold and pink tones, offers a gourmet walk in the heart of the Christmas village. We tasted: the milk chocolate caramel tablet (€4.99); the gingerbread-flavored Christmas hot chocolate (€9.40); the envelopes with either melting marshmallow bears (€6.80) or an assortment of 4 milk chocolate, almond, hazelnut, and dried raisin mendiants, as well as 6 hazelnut praline chocolates (€9.70); “house” table containers to place on festive tables with milk chocolate subjects and Crousti-lait (€4.95).
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2023 Collection
In the 2023 collection, we tasted the Petit Croc’ box (€11.80) which contains two different recipes that mix chocolate and crunchy cereals: the dark chocolate crispy crepe and hazelnut praline, and the milk chocolate peanut one. The brand also offers Christmas tablets (in milk or dark version / price €4.30) and also spice hot chocolate powder (€8.95 per 250g).
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2022 Collection
The 2022 Christmas collection offered festive tablets (€4.10), snowballs (€5.30), mini chocolate Christmas subjects (€6.95), mini gourmet boxes (€12.50), and also happy holiday tablets (€5.20).
L’Eclair de Génie
Christophe Adam’s brand has been featuring the sleepy bear ‘Malmö dodo’ in its Christmas collections since 2023, whose wildest wishes have come true. In addition to the Christmas tablets that I discuss below, there are also chocolate barlettes (€3.80), boxes with mini cookies (€7) perfect for a small table gift, or the small marshmallow bear covered in Swiss milk chocolate.
Christmas Tablets
For the holidays, Eclair de Génie offers several tablets: dark chocolate with Iranian Pistachio; milk chocolate origin Ghana filled with gingerbread with a touch of cinnamon, clove, and citrus; dark chocolate caramel with salted butter and buckwheat; dark chocolate praline almond-hazelnut and orange; white chocolate caramel praline and pecan; milk chocolate puffed rice…
Eclair de Génie Christmas tablets
Chalet des Délices / 14 rue Pavée 75004 Paris
Price : €8.50 per tablet
Edwart Chocolatier
As always, chocolatier Edwin Yansané and his team imagine creations made with carefully selected grand cru cocoa.
Edwart Chocolatier
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2024 Expedition to the Ice Floe Collection
In 2024, Edwart Chocolatier takes us to the ice floe with a joyfully frosty collection, inspired by the landscapes of the North Pole, where penguins are king. On the program: a filled “banquise à croquer” (crunchy ice floe) tablet that contains a hazelnut praline combined with a yuzu ganache (price €29); a chocolate box in two sizes with ganaches and pralines (25 chocolates €29.50 and 49 chocolates €45), including 2 new creations; penguin subjects “Edwin and Arthur” and “Pingloo” (between €29.50 and €45).
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2023 Mischievous Elves Collection
Known for its fairy-tale collections, in 2023 Maison Edwart drew inspiration from Christmas elves. On the program: the mischievous elf in Tanzanian grand cru milk chocolate for the green hat and dark chocolate, also Tanzanian grand cru, for the red hat (€39); the jingle bell in dark or milk chocolate with Tanzanian grand cru (€21); the Christmas sleigh at the Grande Epicerie de Paris (€35); the chocolate box illustrated by tattoo artist Eddie Czaicki (€29 for 25 chocolates / €43 for 49 chocolates; the Christmas tree box (€39).
Réauté Chocolat
I am a fan of this French brand (established in Château-Gontier in Mayenne, existing since 1954)! The family adventure started with a bakery/pastry shop. Like every year, I am charmed by their little chocolate subjects, which are so cute!
The extra touch: Réauté chocolates are made in France, in the brand’s workshop in Château-Gontier sur Mayenne, and they are guaranteed to be palm oil-free and with 100% pure cocoa butter couverture chocolate.
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2024 Christmas Collection
In 2024, in addition to Réauté treats, I also received this cute Réauté plush toy shaped like a Christmas Reindeer. Otherwise, regarding eatables, I tasted the Christmas spice shortbread (€7.95); the fantastic elf filled with small butter cookies coated in milk chocolate (€6.40); the multicolored pic’ o choc’, butter shortbread cookies coated in milk chocolate; Félicien the little dark chocolate elf; a tree molding in milk chocolate.
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2023 Christmas Collection
In 2023 I received the Christmas Manneles (€18), this tradition straight from Alsace. It includes a large milk chocolate mannele and a small white chocolate one on a dark chocolate base. I also tested the Cozy Christmas box (€11.50) which is the perfect gourmet gift to put at the foot of the tree! Inside were two wrapped bags with fleur de sel dark chocolate squares and milk caramel chip squares, as well as the Cozy Christmas ball that can be reused as Christmas decor after eating the chocolates.
Réauté Chocolat 2023 Christmas Collection
Available since November 1, 2023
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2022 Christmas Collection
In 2022 I received an enchanted tree (€16.95) with a dark chocolate cone, circles in milk and dark chocolate with a topping of almond, pecan, and raspberry chips.
Léonidas
For the holidays, the Belgian chocolatier offers Christmas collections with sustainable chocolate, 100% pure cocoa butter, and no palm oil. We tasted: the box of Christmas balls in size M containing 36 chocolates in multiple flavors (€25.90), which is also up for grabs on my instagram account @mellebonplan.
Léonidas
Mon Jardin Chocolaté
Mon jardin chocolaté is the 1st artisanal, organic, and solidarity-based chocolate shop in Paris. It was certified organic by Ecocert in 2017. Carine offers fair trade chocolates in her shop, made with plants, fruits, and seeds from her garden. All her chocolates are preservative-free, additive-flavor-free, and gluten-free. The raw materials are from organic farming, and the chocolate is fair trade. For the holidays, the shop offers a collection of small dark and milk chocolate subjects, but also boxes of assorted melting ganaches and crunchy pralines, as well as boxes of mini tablets.
Mon Jardin Chocolaté
28 rue Raymond Losserand 75014
workshop-boutique open Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm
Price of the Christmas Friends: €4 per pair of penguins (40 g) / €6 for the snowman (70 g) / €6 for the tree (70 g)
The Lanvin house chocolate snails
This gourmet tradition that dates back to my childhood is in a way my own ‘madeleine de Proust’. When I was little, every Christmas, my grandmother would offer me a box of Lanvin milk chocolate snails, and this tradition still continues today! I always ate them very slowly (no more than one a day) so they would last as long as possible. This house, which has existed for over 80 years now, remains for me the inimitable Christmas praline chocolate.
Pierre Marcolini
The Maison Pierre Marcolini was created in the aftermath of M. Marcolini winning the title of World Champion of Pastry in 1995.
Maison Pierre Marcoloni
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Pierre Marcolini 2024 Christmas Collection
The 2024 Christmas collection offers pralines shaped like hats, chocolate twigs with dried fruit chips (hat Christmas plumier / price €23). There is also a Christmas Cracker with 10 delicious “Petits Bonheurs” with hazelnuts, caramel, and gianduja (price €17).
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2022 Pierre Marcolini Winter Collection
In 2022, in the Christmas collection, we find the delicious starred Gianduja in a “Divine Constellation” box of 6 gianduja stars (€39), a box of 12 Christmas macarons (€28), the holly wreath (€80), or even the praline jingle bell tree box (€14.90).
De Neuville
This brand offers chocolates 100% made in France and without palm oil.
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2022 Festive Collection
This season again, the chocolatier De Neuville puts its French know-how at the service of quality to offer a festive, gourmet collection with enchanting airs, including moldings, mendiants, confections, or chocolate candies. This year, the brand also offers an immersion into Christmas tales for children with a blond chocolate puzzle (price €7.90).
The extra touch: all boxes, ballots, and booklets are recyclable and come from France or nearby Europe to minimize carbon footprint; the products are free from palm oil and artificial sweeteners and are made in France.
De Neuville Chocolate
Jadis et Gourmande
Jadis et Gourmande (a boutique well-known to chocolate lovers) offers special Christmas chocolate creations. The brand, which has existed for 49 years, has its workshop near Paris and promotes solidarity and responsible values by making CSR commitments such as recyclable packaging and the use of certified responsible cocoa. I don’t know about you, but I’m hooked because, besides that, I’ve always found their creations very original!
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“Faire fondre les préjugés” Box
This year for the holidays, the brand offers a box to “melt prejudices” in a limited edition and in collaboration with Tiffany Mazars. This box offers 10 unique chocolates to talk about 10 disabilities and to melt away prejudices regarding disability. And €1 is donated to the association Un rêve un sourire for every box sold.
‘Faire fondre les préjugés’ Jadis et Gourmande box
Price : €19.80
Manufacture Cluizel
The extra touch: the brand is very committed, and its chocolates are guaranteed to be made with noble ingredients, no soy, no added flavorings during manufacturing, and with dyes of natural origin.
2021 Collection
In 2021, Manufacture Cluizel offered a Christmas collection “Nature Suspendue” (Suspended Nature) on the theme of nature, with an Advent calendar, chocolate boxes, a unique organic chocolate tablet, and a Christmas ball filled with organic dark and milk fried treats, to hide in the tree.
Well, after this little moment of window shopping, so to speak, all that’s left for me is to wish you all very great festive meals, and don’t hesitate to come tell me what succulent dishes you will have tasted around your beautiful festive tables.
Photo credits: Nicolas Diolez and MelleBonPlan
