Christmas chocolate

In this magical time, we invite you to discover our tempting and refined creations, assortments of pralines, candied chestnuts and other seasonal delights, beautifully presented in our Christmas chocolate boxes , real treasures that are impossible to resist! Each box offers the opportunity to (treat yourself) with a delicate attention.

By choosing to give a chocolate Christmas gift prepared with love and care by À la Mère de Famille, you offer a combination of age-old traditions, such as our pralines prepared cold in the traditional way, and innovation, such as our candied chestnut, the fruit of three years of work with an expert craftsman in the field.

Let your sweet tooth guide your choices, and enjoy an unforgettable tasting for the holidays by offering Christmas chocolate!

Tell me, what chocolate Christmas gift to give?

The hardest part, deciding to offer an assortment of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, pralines (which some also call pralines), or orangettes or florentines, is to choose from all our specialties with varied flavors. Some are particularly popular for the holiday season: we give you some ideas (not exhaustive!) to inspire you.

Traditional 100% homemade papillotes

A rare fact that deserves to be specified, À la Mère de Famille is part of the very restricted circle of chocolatiers who make their own chocolates. chocolate papillotes , from start to finish. Our six praline recipes are 100% homemade, as well as the chocolate coating, the jokes and the papillote! Each year, they are offered as an assortment in a new metal box illustrated by a designer. A gift that is as good as it is beautiful!

Truffles with flair

Lovers of truffles will enjoy our three recipes that combine a smooth and melting homemade ganache with a fine cocoa powder. More red fruit and spice flavors, with our pure origin Madagascar chocolate? Or rather floral sweetness with spicy notes on the finish with our pure origin Peru? Or even sweetness and creaminess of our traditional vanilla ganache? Not easy to choose, we know...

The thrill of candied chestnuts

What can we also say about our delicate ones? candied chestnuts ? Our chocolatiers work with a long-standing partner to pool all their expertise in this highly technical recipe. An essential pleasure of the winter season, the Maison's candied chestnuts are renowned for their delicate flavor. Fleshy, firm and not very sweet, with a pronounced chestnut taste, they are a unanimous hit during the end-of-year celebrations.

Only 24 days left until the gifts

Don't forget to go and discover our iconic advent calendar , designed each year by a different artist. Sempé, Pénélope Bagieu and Chris Ware have already taken part in the game and imagined a calendar that is as good-natured as it is aesthetic. The ideal gift to brighten up the countdown to the holidays with the aromas of milk and dark chocolate!

The famous Toucans (which all of Caen loves)

Winter is the ideal season to enjoy our Toucans , a specialty with an extremely fine coating. Between the hazelnut praline recipe enhanced with a crispy puff pastry, the praline version enhanced with pistachio slivers, and the melting toucans with sesame seeds, the most demanding palates will find what they are looking for.

The call of the log

Finally, the holidays would not be the holidays without our traditional Christmas logs . The greed of the Dolfi family, the happy owners of the House, inspires our ice cream makers who develop a new collection of logs every year. Choose from our four recipes the flavors that will delight your taste buds: blackcurrant, nougat, chocolate, praline, candied chestnut, and we're forgetting some.

Our homemade chocolate is made in France

Since 1761, À la Mère de Famille has perpetuated the love of quality and indulgence. To guarantee the consistency of our flavors as well as the excellence of our recipes, we are committed to mastering the manufacture of our chocolates from start to finish. We select our cocoa beans ourselves from partner producers chosen with care and rigor. Our chocolatiers, masters in the art of sublimating the different aromas of cocoa, create a couverture with unique flavors, the fruit of a homemade blend of varied terroirs. All our recipes are made in France , in our Tours workshop, where certain gestures are still carried out by hand… and always will be!

Treat yourself to some time: choose online sales of Christmas chocolates

The approach of the holidays means a marathon of searching for a nice gift for your loved ones. With the online sale of Christmas chocolate, À la Mère de famille makes your life easier. Make your selection from our gift boxes, our varied assortments and our seasonal specialties, and order through our online chocolate shop.

Receive them at home, or have them delivered to the address of your choice in metropolitan France and Europe, in 24 to 48 hours depending on the chosen formula. You can also choose a free collection in store at the time slot of your choice. Are you really late on your chocolate gifts? No problem: a courier delivers your order before Santa Claus, in less than 4 hours in Paris and its inner suburbs.

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From the Aztecs, who consumed cocoa and offered it as a gift to their loved ones, to the present day, chocolate has entered the club of prized gifts. Reserved only for the elite when it arrived on the European continent, offering this delicacy was a valuable gift, showing the lucky recipient its importance. In tradition, Saint Nicholas also walked around on Christmas Eve to offer essential chocolates and sweets to children.

Today, the pleasure of biting into chocolate is accessible to all gourmets. But offering tasty chocolates, with elegant and refined aromas, in the form of truffles, papillotes, Christmas logs, candied chestnuts and other gourmet pleasures, remains an essential delicate attention.

We wish you happy holidays, and a good selection of sweet treats to put under the tree!