The best British Chocolates for Christmas... Check ‘em out now !

Hotel Chocolat is a great site for luxury chocolate gifts. With Christmas not too far away on the calendar, it’s a great company to know for Christmas presents, Stocking fillers, and Christmas Crackers. Hotel Chocolat are specialist British chocolatier and cocoa grower, who make luxury chocolates from fine cocoa. The company own a 140-acre cocoa plantation in St Lucia called Rabot Estate, where they grow carefully selected cocoa trees which they use to produce the finest quality chocolate. The Hotel Chocolat website has lots of information for anyone interested in luxury chocolates, from recipes to news on how the company’s ‘Engaged Ethics’ programme supports cocoa farmers in Africa and the Caribbean

For Christmas presents the 2010 Christmas range is now available with ‘Truffle-filled Advent Calendars’, two flavours – large fruit and nut or small cookie and caramel of ‘Solid Festive Wreaths’, and novelty chocolate feast ‘Mini Christmas Dinners’.

For the exciting run-up to Christmas, each window of the ‘Ultimate Milk Chocolate Advent Calendar’ contains a different velvety 40% milk or 50% milk chocolate Christmas figure, covered in nibbly cocoa nibs.

There’s a range of stocking fillers too, with melt in the mouth ‘Caramel Drops’ in dinky droplet portions, and packages of eight cute ‘Tiddly Snowmen’; creamy, snow-white chocolate characters well-sized for little appetites or after dinner treats for all ages. Or as romantic gift for a loved one, a ‘Milk Engraved Chocolate Heart’ has sumptuous 40% cocoa milk chocolate molded into a solid heart with a detailed and charming lovebird design.

For dramatic Christmas crackers, there are a number of choices. ‘Rather Large Crackers’ come in packs of two or four, with each cracker two feet long and holding party hats, jokes, and forty chocolates including smooth pralines, creamy ganaches, and champagne truffles all wrapped in pairs to be as fresh as can be.