Celebrate World Chocolate Day with gift hampers for all the family
27 Jun 2024
Experience the wonder of World Chocolate Day with the help of a chocolate hamper filled with cacao delights and goodies. Which hamper will you be choosing to surprise your nearest and dearest?
At Hotel Chocolat, every day for us is a celebration of the versatility and joy that chocolate brings. However, did you know that there’s a national holiday for chocolate? It is aptly named World Chocolate Day, and it’s fast approaching on July 7th.
To help you and your loved ones make the most of this very important day, we’ve put our chocolate-expertise-filled heads together with our favourite gifting recommendations — specifically our decked-out chocolate gift hampers.
If you’re going to celebrate World Chocolate Day this year, we believe that you may as well do it in style.
What and when is World Chocolate Day?
On the 7th of July, World Chocolate Day is a day for all of us chocolate aficionados to get together and share our love for the cacao bean and the deliciousness it brings. You can do this in many different ways. The best part? There is no right or wrong way to conduct your World Chocolate Day celebrations.
How to celebrate: World Chocolate Day activity ideas
As we’ve already mentioned, World Chocolate Day can be whatever you make of it. Chocolate is for everyone, whether you prefer to eat it, drink it, or simply just learn about it.
Here are a few World Chocolate Day activities to get you started:
1. Learn
Take a look at The Pod — our in-house blog covering all things about chocolate. From chocolate recipes and pieces of chocolate history to a few (not so well-kept) industry secrets, it’s a great resource to immerse yourself in chocolate’s origins.
2. Try
Experiment with a new chocolate recipe, or try out a new hot chocolate flavour that you wouldn’t usually go for. World Chocolate Day is the best day for a touch of innovation and experimentation.
3. Taste
This is our favourite way to celebrate World Chocolate Day! Peruse our chocolate collection and treat yourself to something comforting and familiar or go for something new — something bold and adventurous. The choice is yours.
4. Visit
Did you know that we have 138 locations across the UK? Within many of these locations, you’ll find our esteemed cafes and ice cream counters. Why not pop into your nearest Hotel Chocolat location and try our most popular and refreshing summer pick amongst guests — our Ice Cream of the Gods?
5. Share
The gifting ability of chocolate has to be one of the best things about it — as well as its soothing and comforting taste. Use World Chocolate Day to share your appreciation for your loved ones. We have plenty of chocolate gifts for you to choose from.
Chocolate Hampers to celebrate World Chocolate Day
If you’ve been one of our fellow guests for a long time, you’ll already be aware of our vast range of chocolate gifts and collections. However, there’s one type of chocolate gift that we believe couldn’t embody World Chocolate Day more — and that is our opulent range of Chocolate Hampers.
Big enough to share around with all of your nearest and dearest, we think that Chocolate Hampers are the perfect addition to a day of celebration.
Our favourite hamper gifts for celebrating chocolate
World Chocolate Day calls for only the best — and we believe this lies in the power of pure, unadulterated cacao. Here’s an insight into three of our Chocolate Hampers, celebrating our manifesto of “more cacao, less sugar”, ensuring you get the most authentic bite, snap, and nibble every time.
Taste: Serious Dark Fix Collection
For those who like their chocolate dark, bold, and powerful, this Serious Dark Fix chocolate box is filled to the brim with a variety of our best-selling dark chocolate gifts. Lift the pre-wrapped gift box to reveal four unique Hotel Chocolat classics to graze on over the course of the day.
- Serious Dark Fix H-box: A showcase of our best-selling dark chocolates, featuring firm favourites such as the Simple Dark Truffle, Dizzy Praline, and Dark Batons.
- Sour Cherry Selector: Tangy cherry enrobed in dark chocolate for a mighty fruit punch.
- Dark Chocolate Fruit & Nut 80% Selector: A fully loaded slab of dark, filled to the brim with almonds, hazelnuts, and cherries.
- 70% Dark Chocolate Batons: It couldn’t get more simple than this. Perfect for lovers of bold cacao flavour, our deep and dark batons provide everything for that dark chocolate hit.
The Signature Cabinet
For only the most show-stopping of celebrations, The Signature Cabinet unveils three tiers of our beloved truffles, pralines, caramels, macarons, and more. Open the drawers to reveal something for everyone — from the tipsy chocolate lovers to the little ones after something a bit more mellow.
Keep an eye out for the following flavours enrobed in dark, milk and white chocolate. Will you opt for your go-to or something new on World Chocolate Day?
- Caramel
- Chilli
- Coffee
- Hazelnut
- Passion fruit
- Mango
- Salted caramel
- Strawberry
The Chocolatier’s Table
The best variety of chocolate flavours and textures can be found on The Chocolatier’s Table. It’s our way of presenting the best of the best, exactly how our chocolatiers would do it themselves. With 69 nibbles to choose from, it’s impossible to leave this table without trying something new.
This chocolate platter even includes two fill-sized slabs full of adventurous flavours — our Mississippi Mud Pie and Cookies & Cream. Fancy a taste of simplicity? This grand Chocolatier’s Table has an elegant selection of our high-quality Chocolate Batons, including 40% Milk, White, Caramel, Raspberry-White and 70% Dark.
Why not try something new and indulge in our Supermilk Batons? Our Batons are made for tasting — so it’s one of our favourite picks for World Chocolate Day. It’s also a great treat to introduce your family to a cacao treat that has both the mellow creaminess of milk chocolate and all the depth of dark chocolate. We like to call it the best of both worlds in cacao form.
Celebrate World Chocolate Day with the highest-quality cacao
If you’re keen to celebrate World Chocolate Day, it only makes sense to do it right. At Hotel Chocolat, we pride ourselves on creating Award Winning Chocolate that our guests have loved and craved since 1993.
Whilst all of our chocolate gift boxes and collections would make the perfect accompaniment to this day of celebration, our Chocolate Hampers are the true show-stoppers, providing you with a tantalising array of cacao delights for everyone in your home — and a bit more. From the purest of chocolate batons to patisserie-inspired chocolates, you can get a taste of cacao innovation across the ages.
Don’t forget to keep the chocolate celebrations going by keeping an eye out for our competitions on social media. Share, taste, and learn together with the help of Hotel Chocolat this World Chocolate Day.
