33 chocolate gifts, from stylish artisan bars to festive sharing boxes

Created by Simon Coll, a chocolatier family business founded in 1840 in Catalonia, these chocolate sardines are described as excellent for children – but we’d like some ourselves please, Santa. 

Shop Simon Coll chocolate sardines at Brindisa, £1.95

Salted caramel, hazelnut, sour cherry… show someone just how much you miss them with a tray of incredible brownies from Exploding Bakery.

Shop letterbox brownies at Exploding Bakery, £13.95

Female-founded chocolatiers Cartografie create single origin couvertures filled with a bespoke ganache; this is the gift to make someone’s Christmas. 

Shop Cartografie Collection at Cartografie, £24

Apothem Labs has collaborated with award-winning Hackney-based brand Land to create a vegan-friendly chocolate bar blended with CBD. Genius. 

Shop Apothem x Land Vegan CBD 58% Chocolate Bar at Apothem Labs, £8

Palm oil-free, vegan and ethically sourced, this colourful package contains four delicious dark chocolate bars, two packets of nut butter cups and a snack pack of sugar-coated chocolate drops. Yum. 

Shop Chocolate Package Of Joy at Doisy & Dam, £13

London’s first bean-to-bar chocolate maker has created a limited edition range of 60% Haiti dark chocolate with festive tasting notes: think fig, cinnamon, nutmeg and orange. 

Shop Cosy Collection chocolate bars at Lucocoa, £5.50

Sustainable, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and eggless, make someone’s Christmas with this little box of cake, chocolates, tea and a card. 

Shop Christmas gift set at Positive Bakes, £29.95

Shop gingerbread Christmas bar at Love Cocoa, £4.50

For utterly beautiful chocolates to blow away the recipient, you can’t go wrong with this box of four praline and gianduja bitesize bits. 

Shop box of 8 demi-lunes at Pierre Marcolini, £19.90

Made with 67% Madagascar origin dark chocolate, figs, dates, apricots, pecans, pistachios and brandy, this cheeky chocolate salami is a really fun present. 

Shop chocolate salami at Chococo, £21.50

Creating incredible flavours and wonderful designs, Brik is a grown-up Wonka Chocolate Factory. This matcha and raspberry terrazzo chocolate tile is a stocking filler with attitude.

Shop matcha and raspberry terrazzo chocolate tile at Brik, £9.90

For grown-up chocolate buttons, Islands create sustainable brilliant chocolate. This is their favourite flavour with notes of citrus and banana. 

Shop 65% dark premium chocolate buttons at Islands, £10.50

The perfect post-dinner pudding, Paul’s chocolate yule log is filled with 60% dark chocolate mousse and cocoa joconde biscuit.

Shop chocolate yule log at Paul, £17.95

Farhi’s bonbonnières are so gorgeous you don’t need to wrap them – making them the perfect present. Choose from dark chocolate ginger to coffee beans and raisins. 

Shop dark chocolate ginger in bonbonnière at Farhi, £25

Yard works directly with a Jamaican cocoa seller who roasts and winnows their Portland beans by hand in St Catherine, Jamaica. Their chocolate is amazing. 

Shop dark chocolate bar at Yard, contact direct to purchase

Little and big penguins, chocolate drops and a Comet The Reindeer slab… Hotel Chocolat is bringing the charm this Christmas. 

Shop The Christmas Characters Collection at Hotel Chocolat, £20

Gather friends and family for a chocolate tasting and Melt will send you chocolates from Madagascar, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Bolivian Amazon. Email office@meltchocolates.com to find the best time. 

Shop virtual chocolate tasting at Melt London, from £45

These perfectly formed chocolates arrive beautifully presented and make for the most welcome of gifts. 

Shop Little Box of Christmas Chocolate at Biscuiteers, £11.95

The packaging is so gorgeous you won’t want to open this bar of sea salt caramel; somehow you’ll work through it though. 

Shop Liberty Heritage salted caramel chocolate bar at Liberty London, £7.95

Feya is all about celebrating women and this box of delicately illustrated truffles is the perfect gift for your best friend. Flavours include gooey salted caramel, rose and raspberry and caramelised orange. 

Shop assortment of truffles at Feya, £18.95

Perfect for eco-minded friends, this fairly traded vegan chocolate is grown, harvested and fermented by Cool Earth’s Asháninka partners in Peru then made in Cornwall by Chocolarder.

Shop Asháninka chocolate at Cool Earth, £4.95

51% dark chocolate with mint candy cane equals Christmas in a (sustainable and recyclable) wrapper. 

Shop Tony’s Chocolonely dark chocolate with candy cane at Farmdrop, £3.99

With six organic chocolates each with a 3D puzzle toy and fact sheet, this is the perfect gift for small chocolate lovers in your life. 

Shop ToyChoc Box at Play In Choc, £17.50

Customise this gift set with a special message and send two Mix A Mug brownies which people can make in just 60 seconds. 

Shop Mix A Mug at Simply Cake Co, £6

A hand-decorated Welsh dragon and chocolate bar – you know someone who’d love this. 

Shop ‘Cymru am Byth’ dark chocolate dragon at Wickedly Welsh, £3.99

Roasted peanut butter marbled with smooth Ecuadorian chocolate and sea salt from fine chocolate creator The Chocolatier. 

Shop salted peanut butter chocolate truffles at The Chocolatier, £10

Two bars of chocolate for six months dropping through the letterbox. That’s essentially all we need. 

Shop Chocolate Club subscription at Green & Black’s, £36

Make up your own size box featuring milk chocolate (holly leaf), gingerbread (red and green) and salted caramel and honeycomb (gold crunch).

Shop festive truffle box at Piff Paff, from £9

Shop salted white chocolate at Bare Bones Chocolate, £6.50

There’s something pleasingly nostalgic about Godiva’s pretty tree box, featuring 11 chocolates of joy.

Shop Christmas tree box at Godiva, £18

The best all-round chocolate gift for family, this has a delightful mix of hazelnut torte, passionfruit posset, banoffee pie, crème brûlée, raspberry infusion and key lime pie.

Shop Lily O’Brien’s Chocolate Desserts Collection at Waitrose, £6

Russell & Atwell are all about fresh chocolates you keep in the fridge and this twin pack of milk chocolates is the perfect gateway to their addictive wares.

Shop Milk Lovers Twin Pack at Russell & Atwell, £13

Buy for Christmas, eat on New Year’s Eve… The iconic Charbonnel Et Walker chocolates are always a winning gift. 

Shop Charbonnel Et Walker pink champagne truffles at Amazon, £12.75