Best Food Advent Calendars 2025
by Holly Thomson
Advent calendars for adults have become hugely popular in recent years. Everybody loves an advent calendar, after all! The excitement of getting a treat each day brightens up even the darkest of December mornings and eases us into the festive season.
The best food advent calendars bring joy to every December morning – whether it’s unwrapping artisan chocolate, discovering new spices, or indulging in buttery biscuits.
At Sous Chef, we handpick calendars from Europe’s finest makers, from French biscuit houses to Belgian chocolatiers. Below, explore our guide to the very best food and biscuit advent calendars for 2025 – all chosen for their quality, story, and flavour.
The Best Food Advent Calendars 2025
3 Top Biscuit Advent Calendars for Christmas 2025
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- Lebkuchen-Schmidt PGI Lebkuchen & Biscuit Advent Calendar
- La Sablésienne French Butter Biscuits Advent Calendar
- Tuscan Biscuit Advent Calendar
3 Luxury & Chocolate Food Advent Calendars
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- Lakrids Liquorice Advent Calendar
- Neuhaus Sharing Chocolate Calendar
- Francois Doucet French Sweets Advent Calendar
3 Alternative Foodie Advent Calendars
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- Spice Discovery Advent Calendar
- Baci Chocolate Kisses Advent Calendar
- La Perla Truffles Advent Calendar
Take a look at our Luxury Food Advent Calendars in store - new calendars are arriving every week so keep checking back. And if you're thinking about Christmas start finding inspiration among our incredible food gifts.
What Makes the Best Food Advent Calendar?
We've brought together a selection of calendars here that are full of surprises. Plus some calendars you won't find anywhere else. Each year, we spend months sourcing the finest Advent treats from the world's best producers – from Danish liquorice to delights from Provence.
Here's a preview of some of the calendars - with more arriving every day ready for Christmas 2025.
3 Alternative Advent Calendars for 2025
Looking for something different? Our alternative calendars are chosen to surprise as well as delight. These are the advent calendars that food lovers remember year after year - the beginning of a new food tradition.
Spice Discover Advent Calendar
Behind every door you will find a different spice sachet, alongside recipe ideas and tasting notes. It's the perfect calendar for those who love to try new flavours.
⭐ Loved by all who try it
- "For someone who likes trying out new recipes, this is a brilliant way to countdown to Christmas." - The Sun
- "This calendar from Terre Exotique, a spice company who work directly with specialist producers around the world, is a treat!" - Delicious Magazine's Best Food & Drink Advent Calendar
- "Ideal for foodies" - Mirror
⭐ 24 incredible spices
Open a door each day of December for a new individual sachet of sweet and savoury spices.
Each one comes complete with tasting notes and recipe ideas. Experiment with new flavours in your cooking each day, or spice up your dishes well into 2026.
⭐ A daily recipe
You'll try a new recipe every day. Just scan the QR codes on the inside of each window to find the recipe on the Terre Exotique website (just pick "English" language in the menu dropdown).
French classics are taken to a new level, as well as twists on global recipes.
- Pair ‘Cheese maker’s pepper’ with baked brie – a unique blend created just to eat with melted cheese! You’ll taste the heady notes of warming long pepper and tingling Szechuan berry, together with eight other spices.
- ‘Japanese Gomasio’ combines white, black and ‘ume’ plum-flavoured sesame seeds – for a quick upgrade to seared salmon.
- Nepalese ‘timur berry’ brings extraordinary grapefruit notes to a mini tartelletes au citron.
- Try speculoos spice blend for festive biscuits,
- A ma keen marinade or oyster pepper for much more than just oysters!
This is a flavour packed way to countdown to Christmas from the finest spice merchants in the world.
Baci Advent Calendar
Baci Perugina chocolates are the story of a kiss. 90 years ago in the heart of Perugia, Italy, a young Perugina chocolatier was inspired to create a special dark chocolate and hazelnut confection for her beloved.
It was a clandestine relationship and into each wrapper she slipped a secret love note. The chocolate was named Baci - Italian for kisses. Unwrap a Baci today and discover messages of love and friendship nestled inside the signature silver and blue foil.
This beautiful Baci Advent calendar is filled with the famous hazelnut pralines from Perugia in Umbria. A festive treat for Italian food lovers, each praline is topped with a whole hazelnut and enrobed in smooth, rich chocolate.
The calendar contains pralines covered in milk, dark and extra dark (70%) chocolate so you can experience the full range of flavour. Each praline provides a delicious moment to savour as the chocolate melts in your mouth, followed by the crunch of the hazelnut.
Founded in 1857, Leone has been creating some of Italy’s finest sweets for over 160 years. From their first shop in Alba, Luigi Leone’s pastilles became so loved they soon reached Turin and even the Royal House of Savoy. Today, Leone continues to make traditional Italian confectionery with the same dedication, small moments of happiness in every bite!
From fruity pastilles to Leone’s famous jellies, every treat is made with natural flavours and the finest ingredients. Chocolate lovers will delight in Leone’s iconic Cri Cri pralines – roasted hazelnuts coated in dark chocolate and finished with a crisp sugar shell.
This festive calendar is as beautiful as it is delicious, making it an ideal Christmas gift for friends and family. Whether you’re treating yourself or surprising a loved one, it’s the perfect way to savour a taste of Italy throughout December.
3 Top Biscuit Advent Calendars for 2025
For those who can’t resist a buttery crumb or a spiced bite, a biscuit advent calendar is the most delicious way to count down to Christmas.
La Sablesienne French Butter Biscuit Calendar
COMING SOON! Kick off Christmas with the La Sablésienne Biscuit Advent Calendar. This limited-edition design from the French biscuit house is as beautiful as it is delicious, adding charm to your festive decorations. Behind each door, you’ll discover individually wrapped bags of their famous all-natural shortbread — crumbly, buttery, and irresistibly moreish — in flavours like classic butter, salted caramel chip, raspberry chip, and chocolate. With 24 bags to enjoy, it’s the perfect countdown for biscuit lovers.
La Sablésienne has been baking in France’s Pays de la Loire since 1962, earning a reputation for their beloved petit sablé. Using only natural ingredients and presenting their biscuits in beautifully decorated tins and boxes, they’ve become known for gifts that taste as good as they look.
Tuscan Biscuit Advent Calendar
COMING SOON! Bring a taste of northern Italy to your Christmas countdown with this Tuscan Biscuit Advent Calendar. Each day reveals a new artisanal treat — from crunchy biscotti and buttery cantucci to chewy almond nougat — all crafted to traditional recipes. Flavoured with cocoa, coffee, and limoncello, every bite is a sweet journey to the Tuscan countryside, perfect with your morning coffee or as a little indulgence any time of day.
The calendar itself is decorated with poinsettias and an illustration of Florence’s iconic Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, making it as beautiful as it is delicious. A thoughtful gift or a festive centrepiece for your own celebrations, it’s a luxurious way to savour the season, one biscuit at a time.
The PGI Lebkuchen & Biscuit Advent Calendar invites you to count down to Christmas in true German style. Behind each of its 24 little doors lies a treat: soft, spiced lebkuchen, cinnamon stars, and chocolate-covered biscuits.
Lebkuchen-Schmidt, based in Nuremberg - home of Germany’s finest lebkuchen - has been baking gingerbread, cakes, and biscuits for nearly a century. Still family-run, they blend traditional recipes with modern methods for consistent quality. Packed in decorative tins and boxes, their lebkuchen make thoughtful gifts to share with friends and family.
3 Top Luxury Advent Calendars for 2025
Show-stoppers, packed with some of the finest flavours from across the world - these Advent calendars are something to indulge in. A wonderful gift for any fellow food-lovers, too.
Neuhaus Sharing Advent Calendar
Countdown to Christmas with Neuhaus’ stunning chocolate sharing advent calendar. The Neuhaus luxury sharing Advent calendar contains 78 Belgian chocolates so you can share the joy as you count down the days to Christmas. The chocolates are presented in beautiful red and white packaging tied with a golden bow. The box unfolds to resemble a row of houses, each one filled with gifts, dazzling Christmas trees and festive cheer.
The Neuhaus sharing Advent calendar is a perfect gift for any chocolate lover. With 78 chocolates to devour in December, it’s a delicious treat to savour with friends or family.
Neuhaus Chocolates are one of the finest chocolate houses in Belgium – and perhaps the world. The silky smooth chocolate is beautifully delicate and has a wonderful snap, all blended with exquisite ingredients, carefully sourced for the very best flavour.
Francois Doucet Advent Calendar
COMING SOON! The Francois Doucet Advent calendar is a festive showstopper from the traditional French praline specialists. Find an assortment of crunchy caramelised nut pralines, aromatic fruit jellies and stunning chocolates behind each door. Printed with a beautiful winter snow scene, it makes a lovely addition to any Christmas decoration.
And behind every window there is often more than one treat - which we're confident you won't want to share! A great gift to spoil those with a sweet tooth.
Lakrids Advent Calendar
The luxurious Lakrids Christmas advent calendar returns with some brand new flavours! The card and plastic in this beautiful advent calendar are both made from recycled materials, and the whole calendar is 100% recyclable.
Behind each window you could find an old favourite, or a surprising new flavour combination – all executed with Lakrids’ signature flair. You’ll discover chocolate, coffee, raspberry and other ingredients expertly married with the finest Danish liquorice.
This calendar has 24 windows, and comes all the way from one of the finest liquorice producers in Denmark, the home of liquorice. And behind each window there are two pieces of liquorice: two for you, or - if you're feeling generous - enough to share!
Find all of our Food Advent Calendars arriving in store every week as we get closer to Advent 2025! For more Christmas inspiration take a look at all our Christmas food gifts here
