The best Christmas chocolate 2026
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
You loved our Peppermint Bark last Christmas, and now we've added two must-try new flavours: moreish Milk Chocolate Pistachio Muddles and Milk Chocolate Coated Caramel Crunch, in gift-worthy tins.
This box of hand-finished Collection Milk, Dark and White Chocolates includes an irresistible selection of flavours and fillings, from salted caramel to hazelnut, covered with milk, white or dark chocolate.
You can't go wrong with a box of decadent truffles – this Chocolate Truffle Collection features carefully crafted Belgian chocolates with rich truffle centres.
Christmas movie nights are sweeter when there's a box of our The Merry Christmas Selection – with an assortment of milk, white and dark chocolates with assorted fillings – to share.
Chocs away


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.
Tins of joy


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.
Fill their stockings


Best vegan Christmas chocolate
Featuring smooth, creamy dairy-free chocolate and a decadent caramel filling, these cute Made Without Dairy Christmas Trees prove no one has to miss out this season.
Treat them to this Made Without Dairy Truffle Selection, packed with beautifully shaped truffles filled with velvety centres.
Our Vegan Cocoa Dusted Truffles balance sweet and bitter flavours with dark, Belgian chocolate truffles rolled in fine cocoa powder.
A Made Without Dairy Santa is a deliciously sweet stocking filler, minus the dairy.
Chocolates for everyone
Published 17/09/2026




















