The best Christmas chocolate 2026

Whether as a stocking filler, foodie gift or treat for you, chocolate is a Christmas non-negotiable. Read our pick of the best Christmas chocolates in the Foodhall this year.

Senior Food Editor at M&S Food

Heather Taylor

It wouldn't be Christmas without some top-quality chocolates to share. At M&S, we only use cocoa butter in our chocolates, so it's creamy, rich and unmistakably chocolatey. Plus, we're committed to sourcing all our cocoa responsibly.

Whether you're cracking open a tin of our iconic Big Mix, popping round to the neighbours' with a box of creamy truffles, or looking for a beautifully packaged foodie gift, we've got the best Christmas chocolates all wrapped up.

Best chocolate Christmas gifts

  • Open The Magical Theatre Chocolate Box (in store from 30 September) to reveal a twinkly festive theatre scene, complete with music. Inside you'll find adorable dark, blond, milk and white chocolate gnomes, Santas and gingerbread men.

  • These Playful Penguins can't fail to raise a smile. Hand-decorated milk and white chocolates filled with blond chocolate ganache.

  • Turning up with a box of our Collection The Indulgent Nut Collection – with chocolate-coated almonds, clementine-flavoured cashew nuts and more – will score you major brownie points.

  • Give them a snowy winter forest with our Collection Salted Caramel Pinecones. The carefully crafted Belgian milk chocolate shells are filled with a rich, salted caramel core.

Best Christmas chocolate boxes

Best chocolate sharing tins

  • Our Big Mix Tin – our biggest ever Big Mix assortment – is a must-have for your next Christmas family film night. Dig into a 1.2kg selection of chocolate-covered toffees, caramels and creams.

  • You've gone mad for our Malt Balls this year, and especially for Christmas we've released an extra-large sharing box featuring blond, milk, dark and white chocolate Malt Balls, all with the perfect chocolate-to-malt ratio.

  • Our The Original Very Merry Munch tin is a Christmas non-negotiable, featuring a moreish mix of milk-and white chocolate-coated popcorn, salted dark chocolate pretzels, milk chocolate peanuts and caramel almonds.

  • You can never have too many chocolate biscuits, and these Outrageously Chocolatey Milk, Dark and White Chocolate Biscuits will have everyone coming back for more.

Best stocking filler chocolates

  • As cute as they are delicious, our solid milk chocolate Playful Pups make an adorable stocking filler for dog lovers.

  • These Festive Snowy Pretzels are the ultimate sweet-and-savoury stocking treat: crunchy pretzels coated in white chocolate with colourful sprinkles.

  • Swap your chocolate coins for a bag of creamy milk Chocolate Veg.

  • No stocking is complete without a Gingerbread Latte Whip, with a soft coffee-flavoured mallow centre surrounded by a layer of caramel spiced with ginger and cinnamon, topped with a white chocolate and caramelised sugar decoration.

  • This foil-wrapped Swiss Milk Chocolate Santa is a stocking filler Santa would approve of.

Best vegan Christmas chocolate

Published 17/09/2026