Where to find Christmas chocolates with an original touch in Paris Region?

Choose the advent calendar while you wait for 25 December, and if you’re looking for a lovely gift to place under the tree, you’re sure to love the range of Christmas gift boxes. Marshmallow bears, boxes of truffles, Christmas bonbonnières, Christmas trees to assemble… Among this beautiful assortment, you are sure to find something to please your loved ones. Added to this are essentials such as praline spread, marrons glacés and traditional ganaches, which will adorn the windows of the famous boutique for the Christmas holidays.

If you’re looking for a truly original gift, look no further. Patrick Roger is an artist who likes to sculpt chocolate into various mineral or animal forms. His giant creations are vibrantly life-like amid the window displays of his different boutiques. This audacious creator revisits chocolate like nobody else, with his shiny half-spheres that are almost too beautiful to eat. For this Christmas, the chocolate maker, voted one of the best in France, has created an elegant, limited-edition gift box containing a selection of ganache and praline milk and dark chocolates as well as his iconic multicoloured spheres.

His speciality? Chocolate in highly original flavours such as pepper, mojito, basil, tea and many more clever combinations that will delight any chocolate lover or sweet tooth curious enough to try them.

So for Christmas 2025, why not pop under the tree a box of his speciality assortment, or opt for something more traditional like a box of candied chestnuts or truffles from the chocolate-maker’s workshop. A delightful and delicious way to celebrate Christmas and the New Year.

Treat yourself to some marshmallows, boiled sweets, pralines, chocolates and other delights, to revive your most delicious childhood memories.

For Christmas, this traditional chocolate maker is selling a limited-edition Advent calendar in the form of a beautiful family home, designed by Dorothée de Monfreid, which transformed the historic shop into a stage. Famous artists such as Marilyn Monroe and Josephine Baker populate the shop, and behind each window and door lie specialities including dark, white and milk chocolates, caramels and fruit jellies… A delicious countdown to Christmas. You might also succumb to the temptation of one of their more traditional boxes of chocolates and sweets such as lollipops or calissons, for a nostalgic Christmas full of tender moments.

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At Enghien-les-Bains, just north of Paris, Le Cacaotier invites you to take a journey packed with flavour. A traditional chocolate maker since 1995, Hubert Masse shares his passion for quality chocolate via his boutiques in Île-de-France and Normandy, with creations inspired by his gourmet adventures around the world.

For Christmas, he showcases chocolate in an Advent calendar full of tenderness. In a box decorated with characters from The Nutcracker, the 24 doors reveal little dark and milk chocolate fish, pralines and hazelnut balls that will delight children and adults alike. Besides this delicious gift box you’ll find timeless classics like boxes of **truffles, and pralines or ganache assortments** that won’t go unnoticed under the Christmas tree.

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Add even more magic to your 2025 Christmas festivities, Le Chocolat des Français offers a Frenchy or Galactic Christmas. The choice is yours! You will have the pleasure of discovering the far reaches of the universe with the Advent calendar illustrated by Arya Mularama, or the four corners of France with Barbora Keherova’s calendar. As for the gift boxes, ballotins and Christmas baubles, rockets are launching into space to discover stars and aliens. Their contents are just as enticing: gourmet chocolates with praline centres, dark, white or milk chocolate bars, truffles, coated hazelnuts… Stylish and delicious Christmas gifts.

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For Christmas 2025, try these amazing chocolates containing neither sugar nor cream, for delicious taste without the guilt. With a most surprising recipe containing birch juice, Alléno & Rivoire is revolutionising the world of chocolate.

Between their mendiants made for sharing, their boiled sweets to hang on the Christmas tree and their beautiful signature gift boxes, the end-of-year festivities promise to be deliciously chocolatey with Alléno & Rivoire. These two great chefs invite you to visit their boutique in the 7th arrondissement of Paris to discover the true taste of cocoa!

When it comes to chocolate, the young chef Edwin Yansané ventures off the beaten track. The artisan with the tattooed arm and hat permanently placed on his head is well known to the Paris smart set for his bold creations with spicy flavours that bring out the best in the cocoa. At Edwart, the chocolate with pepper, the Madras curry praline and the ganache truffles made with kaffir lime zest make each mouthful a gourmet journey in its own right.

This year at Edwart, Santa Claus’ adventures are enjoyed with a smile. For Christmas 2025, Santa Claus is stuck in a wall while making his rounds on the rooftops of Paris, or knocked over while trying his hand at skiing. The perfect gift for a joyfully rock “n” roll Christmas full of humour.

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Forget the fuss and frills, here the focus is on the quality of the chocolates and the ingredients, showcased in an array of sweet treats to bring joy to every occasion. Their beautiful old-fashioned boxes only add to the vintage charm of this establishment. In addition to their traditional chocolates and truffles, the Maison Foucher revisits fruit with its delicious fruit jellies and its famous Golden cherries, steeped in brandy and coated in chocolate. And if you’re looking for the perfect gift for a budding chocolate chef, you may be interested to know that Foucher organises workshops on a regular basis.

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Maison le Roux begins its end-of-year celebrations with ‘once upon a time…’ and tells you the story of a lighthouse keeper in the year 2025. Born in the heart of Morbihan, on the Quiberon peninsula, this chocolate and caramel maker pays a tribute to his homeland with his signature creations, called menhirs. These highly original chocolates are miniature replicas of the famous megalithic stones and will make a wonderful addition to Santa’s sack. You can select your own assortment from traditional praline and salted caramel the children will love, to whisky and cognac chocolates for the adults. And if you fancy a plunge back into the joys of childhood, try their delicious salted caramels, soft marshmallows and tasty spreads.

With its elegant shopfront and window displays worthy of a luxury jeweller’s, the Maison Fouquet invites you make this Christmas a truly amazing one. Since its creation in 1852, this famous chocolate and confectionery shop has won over the Parisians, and its clientele includes more than one famous sweet tooth, the likes of Monet and Gertrude Stein among them.

For Christmas, Maison Fouquet dreams of a forest of Christmas tree apples covered in traditional praline, dried fruit or puffed rice balls. Voted best praline in the world in 2024, you will find its exceptional flavours in its advent calendar and boxes of delicacies containing a thousand and one surprises. Praline Christmas lollipops, fruity palets, the edible emblem of the house, Ernest the squirrel… The house recipes are numerous and will delight young and old alike. Celebrate a gourmet Christmas, wrapped in finesse and elegance.

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