A little post for this festive season to kick off the countdown to Christmas with you, one of my favorite times of the year to end 2020 in style and with plenty of treats… I think, given how this year has gone, we all really need it…
Here is a little selection of Advent calendars, gleaned here and there, to make you want to open a little window with a lovely gift every day until December 24th. In any case, I am really looking forward to it, and even more so this year, when all is said and done…
By the way, just like last year, I am organizing a special Mademoiselle Bon Plan Advent Calendar during the month of December, with nice prizes to be won almost every day, either on my social networks (facebook, twitter or instagram), or on the blog starting December 1st. You will have to search every day to find where the prize is hidden to be able to participate in the contest.
A little history: The Advent calendar is a German tradition, created to help children wait until Christmas. Originally, they were given a pious image each morning, accompanied by a sentence from the Gospel or an invitation to perform a good deed. Over time, treats and other sweets gradually replaced the images.
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A non-exhaustive selection of Advent calendars
I must say that I love gourmet calendars, even if this year I tried to diversify the selection by adding a few calendars featuring products that are still edible but more original. I also tried to include a selection with a very wide price range.
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The Compagnie Coloniale Advent Calendar
This Advent calendar from the brand Compagnie Coloniale offers a varied selection of 24 teas and herbal teas in Berlingo sachets, to discover the different flavors of this beautiful tea house.
An important point to note, this calendar is entirely Made In France and presents each box in a small removable cube that looks like a gift package.
Compagnie Coloniale Advent Calendar
Price: 28 €
Victim of its success, the calendar is sold out on the website, however it is still available at the brand’s retailers.
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The Monbana Advent Calendar
This Advent calendar is composed of 24 chocolate treats from Monbana: snow-crunch, milk chocolate square with popping sugar, dark chocolate-coated almond, cereal crunch, mini cookies, chocolate-coated marshmallow… For information, Monbana is a French family-owned company that has existed since 1934!
Monbana Advent Calendar
Price: 13.50 € (97 g)
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The La Boite du Fromager Advent Calendar
I had already mentioned La Boite du Fromager in my article dedicated to my good cheese addresses in Paris! This year I’m talking about it again to introduce their Cheese Advent calendar which offers a journey into the heart of French regions.
From December 1st to 24th, this calendar offers a selection of exceptional cheeses, from the most traditional to the rarest. All were specially chosen in partnership with Pierre Rollet-Gérard, a passionate cheesemaker who meets farm cheesemakers all over France. The cheeses are sent in two packages of 12 cheeses (10 days apart) to ensure the freshness of the products.
The calendar contains 24 pieces of cheese and weighs about 1.2 kilograms because each cheese weighs about 50 grams.
La Boite du Fromager cheese Advent Calendar
Price: 69.99 €
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Révillon Advent Calendar
This Révillon Advent calendar contains 24 papillotes (one of my favorite holiday treats) dark and milk chocolate, honoring praline, ganache and caramel.
Révillon Advent Calendar
Price: 9.99 €
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The Chocofiserie Advent Calendar
The “chocofiseurs” make their chocolates with cocoa beans from Peru with pure cocoa butter and no lecithin. They have a workshop located in the 11th arrondissement, Rue Carrière Mainguet, where I had the chance to visit to learn a little more about the artisanal manufacturing process.
Chocofiserie Advent Calendar
16 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011 Paris
124 rue de Charonne 75011 Paris
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Dalloyau Advent Calendar
The Advent Calendar by Dalloyau is as much a decorative object as it is a gourmet one. Hanging from a beautiful wooden branch, confectionery, chocolate candies and other treats (fried chocolate, rochers, mendiants, orangettes, pralines, truffles, shortbread, rose des sables…) are to be discovered every day in pretty numbered pouches.
Dalloyau Advent Calendar
Price: 59 €
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De Neuville Advent Calendar
This year the French chocolatier De Neuville opens the doors of its “fairytale and gourmet city” through a graphic Advent calendar. Behind each window hides a treat: papillotes, pralines, truffles, mini-rochers…
The little bonus: to prolong the magic, each calendar contains a golden ticket to win chocolate surprises like chocolate bars, ballotins, and even a giant assortment worth 100 €!
De Neuville Advent Calendar
Price: 25 €
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Delacre Advent Calendar
This year for the second time (I already told you about it last year), the biscuit brand Delacre offers an Etoile (Star) Advent calendar with 24 boxes containing biscuits with almond flavors, notes of cinnamon or even cocoa taste.
Delacre Advent Calendar
Price: 7.99 € (for 200 g)
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François Doucet Advent Calendar
François Doucet has been a confectioner in Provence for over 50 years and in his Advent calendar we find chocolate confectionery and melt-in-the-mouth fruit jellies. And then I find the drawings that adorn the calendar very pretty, which doesn’t hurt!
François Doucet Advent Calendar
Price: 25 €
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BienManger Advent Calendar
The site Bien Manger.com offers several Advent calendars like this exceptional Coffee calendar made in France and which offers a selection of the best organic coffees roasted by 4 major houses: Terres de Café; Kabioca; Terramoka; Destination Premium.
Every day we discover a different capsule of these exceptional organic coffees. And then a nice little bonus, the majority of the capsules are compostable (by the way, for info, in Paris now you can put coffee capsules in the recycling bin!).
BienManger Exceptional Coffee Advent Calendar
Price: 19.95 €
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Create your own Advent Calendar
The Musée Gourmand du Chocolat (Gourmet Chocolate Museum) offers, every year, a workshop to make your own Advent Calendar with chocolates of your choice (dark, white, milk…) that you will have made on site!
28 bd Bonne Nouvelle, 75010 Paris
Price: 35 € (includes museum admission)
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Well, all that remains is to wish you all a very good month of December!
Photo credits: Nicolas Diolez and Melle Bon Plan Photos not royalty-free, photographer's permission required before any use
