Top 10s Top 10 chocolate Christmas gifts

Date Published:

15/12/2008

In Willie Harcourt-Cooze's words, you can never have enough chocolate at Christmas. Here at 4Food, we've sacrificed our waistlines and munched our way through a mountain of chocolate to help you find the top of the chocs. By Charlie Cottrell

If you take your food tips from Homer Simpson and Michelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, you won't be disappointed with this little beauty. Choose from a selection of toppings, including marshmallows and honeycomb, and wait for the pizza box to arrive. It will take longer than an hour.
(From £7.95, GourmetChocolatePizza.co.uk)

What made chocolate fountains so great was the idea of liquid chocolate. What made them suck was cleaning them up. Happily, the lovely people at Funkin have done all the hard work leaving you with a tidy pouch to pour from. Use for hot chocolate, on desserts, or in deeply delicious cocktails like this express yourself chocolate cocktail. (£7.72, Funkin.co.uk)

What could possibly be posher than a lobster? A hand-crafted, hand-painted, chocolate lobster from artisan chocolatiers, Rococo, that's what. Such a work of art is almost too beautiful to eat, but one taste of the dark chocolate crustacean will absolve you of any guilt.
(£18.55, Rococo)

If you want to be more literal about 'the taste of Christmas' you might want to try Damian Allsop's creations. Decadently rich water ganaches that taste of Christmas tree. Yes. Christmas tree. Not at all jaggy and nothing like pine scented air-fresheners.
(£9.50 per 100g, Fortnum and Mason)

Dorset-based chocolatiers, Chococo, make amazing truffles using locally sourced cream infused with amazing flavours, like Somerset cider and honey from their neighbour's bees. Their Christmas collection features a dreamy Christmas pudding chocolate. Eating ethically has never been so delicious.
(from £17.95, Chococo)

Chocolate flavoured booze is usually great in theory and numbingly disappointing in practice. Not so with this pretty tipple. Good old M&S have got the balance of rich fruity port and full bodied chocolate just right. Worth fighting your nan for.
(£6.99, Marks and Spencer)

So you've legitimately munched your way through the first 25 days of December courtesy of your advent calendar, then attempted to eat your body weight in treats on Christmas day - but then what happens? If the idea of going cold turkey on chocolate brings you out in a cold sweat, ask for this lifeline. It'll see you through 'til Epiphany - after that you're on your own.
(£24.45, Hotel Chocolat)

There's something about a disc of chocolate that just works in the mouth. If you're too proud to raid the kids' selection box, keep your fingers crossed these pretty treats turn up in your stocking. Posh buttons for grown ups. Perfect.
(£2.99, Waitrose)

To the annoyance of our European neighbours, we Brits are a bit milk obsessed when it comes to chocolate. This means finding exciting chocolate gifts for vegans is no easy job. Step up the Chocolate Alchemist. Their vegan hamper is packed with goodies like chocolate covered mangoes, blackcurrant flavoured bars and hunky chunks of chocolate nuts.
(£20, The Chocolate Alchemist)

Award winning chocolatier, Paul A Young, knows how to transform a chocolate from something you binge on to something you savour. He's constantly updating his hand-crafted creations to find new flavours that surprise and excite the palate. His Christmas collection features a Glenmorangie quinta ruban caramel and a wild mushroom truffle.
(£20, Paul A Young)

If that's got you excited, try your hand at the Christmas spiced truffles recipe Paul created for 4Food.

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