12 Best Chocolate Advent Calendars for 2025
2025 chocolate Advent calendars
Holiday season is nearly upon us, and now’s the time to start preparing. Advent calendars—countdowns to Christmas that often come with little gifts—are a favorite tradition of many that signal the beginning of December. Most calendars are gorgeously designed works of paper art with little doors or windows to open each day, starting from December 1 until Christmas on the 25th, with each one revealing a little gift or treat. It might be a toy, beauty item, or piece of art, but of course, the best ones (according to us, anyway) contain chocolate. Some of our top chocolate makers sell unique Advent calendars filled with special confections for 25 days, offering a collectible, edible creation. Just as we did last year in 12 of the Best Advent Calendars for 2024, we’ve rounded up the best chocolate Advent calendars for 2025. Select your favorite—or favorites, no judgment—and enjoy the holiday season countdown filled with chocolate.
Compartés The Nutcracker Calendar
The Los Angeles chocolate brand known for funky inclusions in their unique bars has lovely Nutcracker- and winter fox-themed Advent calendars this year. Each one contains 24 different-flavored pieces of their chocolate truffles, hiding behind little doors. The Nutcracker design features a classic Christmas tree with cute animals, while the winter fox one depicts a snowy scene with a family of foxes. Chocolate flavors in the Nutcracker box include Maple Pecan Buttercream, Chestnut Praline, and Poached Pear, while the winter fox box includes Spiced Gingerbread, Blackberry Crumble, and Campfire S’mores.
Chocolate de Kat Advent calendar
Toronto chocolate maker and owner Kata Ambrus sells glossy, exquisitely hand-painted bon bons in luscious flavors. For her Advent 2025 calendar, there’s a new design and new artwork by Alëna Skarina. Flavors are mostly unique to the calendar, minus a few favorites that are back, including Roasted Banana and the very Canadian, Butter Tart.
Venchi Advent calendar
As the Italian chocolate and gelato company continues to increase its presence across the U.S. with more stores, it continues to make fanciful chocolate Advent calendars every year. For the first time this year, they actually have three different versions (at three different price points), all designed by artist Alice Bureau, including one that is made to be reusable. That one is made out of wood that’s carved into a house shape and comes with 29 chocolates. 2025’s Prestige Advent Calendar features a cardboard rectangular tower construction depicting charming buildings and snowy scenes that open to reveal 25 gift boxes. The tiny drawers inside contain 31 individually wrapped chocolates in an array of flavors, including their classic Cremino Extra Dark and Chocaviar Stracciatella varieties.
Dandelion Chocolate Advent calendar box credit Nick Katkov
Dandelion is an award-winning, San Francisco-based craft chocolate maker known for going all out for its ultra-luxe Advent calendar, and 2025 is no different. Each year, the box is a collaboration with 25 acclaimed chocolatiers across North America. This year’s illustrations are by Belgian artist Lina Kusaite and draws inspiration from the solar system’s 25 moons. Inside the circular box are 25 individual, gift-worthy, chocolate-box “ornaments,” each highlighting one moon. In addition to the Advent calendar, you’ll also get a gorgeous moon map and illustrated booklet, plus access to Daily Unveil videos spotlighting the contributing chocolatiers along with lunar stories and science from science curator and explorer Ariel Waldman. Each “ornament” contains a chocolate from makers including Bon Bon Bon in Detroit, Cocoa & Cardamom in Houston, and Marble & Steel in Asheville. And, if you don’t like sharing your chocolate, you can order a box with two chocolates per night.
Hilliards Chocolates Advent calendar
This year’s traditional Advent calendar from Hilliards Chocolates depicts a cozy living room scene complete with a fireplace and table stacked with chocolates and other treats. Inside it’s filled with 24 pieces of milk chocolate from the historic Massachusetts family-owned-and-operated chocolatier. The artwork on the box was created by their window artist, Jonathan Winchell. Each piece of chocolate is wrapped like a tiny Christmas present and features a sweet seasonal saying.
Delysia Chocolatier Advent Calendar
Every year, Delysia’s Advent calendar has a creative theme, although the plainly numbered chocolates appear simple from the outside. This year, the box is called Home for the Holidays and chocolatier and chef Nicole Patel was inspired by iconic regional flavors from across the U.S. Each truffle features ingredients associated from a certain place, like Cajun praline, Appalachian molasses cookies, and California winter citrus. An interactive website provides plenty of detail about each chocolate, and its inspiration location and ingredient.
Hotel Chocolat Advent calendars
British chocolate maker Hotel Chocolat sources their cacao directly from their own farm in St. Lucia. This year they have six different chocolate Advent calendars that feature truffles, including ones with only white, dark, milk, and vegan chocolates. The Everything Advent Calendar offers a little bit of well, everything, with 24 chocolate truffles of varying flavors tucked inside a glittery-snowflake-adorned box. Chocolates include Champagne Truffle, Caramel Espresso Martini, Lemon Chocolate Cheesecake, and Eton Mess. Hotel Chocolat also offers an Advent calendar of packets of hot chocolate. See our review of the Hotel Chocolat Velvetiser.
Mirzam The Spice Serai Zanzibar Advent calendar
This year’s Mirzam box is called the Spice Serai Zanzibar, and inside the coloful calendar are individually wrapped mini square bars made from cacao sourced Vietnam, Indonesia, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and India. Mirzam is based in Dubai and has been crafting single-origin chocolate since 2016. Read more about how Mirzam brings the spice route chocolate.
COCO Chocolatier Advent calendar
Just like its brightly colored graphic wrappers that covers its single-origin bars, the Scottish brand COCO’s Advent calendar is similarly vibrant. Designed by London-based artist Adam Nathaniel Furman, the modern box and contains 24 mini bars, including a Colombian 40% milk and a Colombian dark bar with sea salt from the Isle of Skye. This year’s exclusive festive flavors are Gingerbread Milk and Black Forest Dark
La Maison du Chocolat Advent calendar
Parisian brand La Maison du Chocolat presents a uniquely shaped Advent calendar each year filled with its top-quality chocolates. This year’s limited-edition Triomphe Advent Calendar is inspired by the Place de l’Etoile and its 12 avenues in Paris, and is in a beautiful twirling red and gold circular box that can be hung like an ornament. Inside, you’ll discover 24 decadent truffles, including their classic pralines and a limited edition treat with roasted short grain rice and almond-hazelnut praliné, enrobed in milk chocolate.
Cocoa & Cardamom Advent calendar
This Houston-based chocolatier celebrates South Asian flavors through chocolate. For the 2025 holiday season, the wreath-shaped Advent calendar is pretty enough to hang on its own—but it also hides 24 delectable bonbons in unique flavors. Chocolates include favorites like Peppermint Mocha, Cherry Cordial, and Cranberry Rosemary, plus several exclusive flavors only available in the calendar.
Neuhaus Advent calendar
The 2025 chocolate Advent calendar from the famous Belgian chocolatier is called Our Chocolate Story and is designed to look like a book. It goes through the four chapters of the company’s history with beautiful illustrations. It is filled with an assortment of 25 pralines in milk, dark, and white chocolate, and includes one of three limited-edition star-shaped pralines. Neuhaus created the first Belgian praline and all of their chocolates are made in Belgium, using only fair and natural ingredients.