Note to Chocolatiers: Where Are the Good Advent Calendars?

Published on Monday, December 15, 2008, by Meredith Arthur / Edit Post

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.

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  • 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/

  • 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!

  • I completely agree. I searched high and low for an upscale chocolate advent calendar and found nothing. So disappointing!

  • oh i love holiday chocolates

  • 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?

  • 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...+READ

    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.-COLLAPSE

  • 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