We’ve long talked about creating a virtual Advent calendar here at CHOW, so it was with special interest that I read Stephanie Lucianovic’s post on Bay Area Bites about her quest for a good, chocolate-surprise-filled calendar.
She surveys fancy chocolatiers like L.A. Burdick, Scharffen Berger, Recchiuti, and CocoaBella in search of a calendar with great chocolate “finds,” but in the end, the only one she tracks down, by Godiva, is sold out. I join her in pleading with chocolatiers to step it up and create Advent calendars for the 21st century! Bonus points for the awfully cute photo of the author as a child.
I remember making advent calendars when i was little… and haven’t found a good one since! : ( these candy places need to step their game up
The solution is to buy or make the calender, and stock it with chocolates or treats yourself. When my daughter was little, I made her one out of cloth that could hang on her bedroom door, shaped like a Christmas tree. It had little pockets, numbered like a calender. I had also purchased a little toy mouse wearing a Santa hat, that she could place in the pocket of the day she had taken the treat from.
Such a Good Post.
My mother used to bring wonderful Advents from Switzerland. They ruined it for ever buying one here. Why IS that the case?
oh i love holiday chocolates
I completely agree. I searched high and low for an upscale chocolate advent calendar and found nothing. So disappointing!
neuhaus chocolates had a really nice advent calendar this year. it started at $48, but by dec 5th was priced at $24…a bargain for those wonderful belgian chocolates!
Too late for this past season, but for future reference: Harbor Sweets, in Salem MA, does an advent calendar everey year, featuring their line of chocolates. I got one for the first time this year, and it was quite good – I’ve long been a fan of Harbor Sweets.
http://www.harborsweets.com/