Ladurée Advent Calendar
£119.96
The Ladurée Advent Calendar 2026 swaps the old flat sweet box for a macaron pyramid, 24 numbered drawers holding 480g of chocolate and confectionery. The real change is the chocolate turn: dark and milk rochers, mendiants and orangettes where last year had calissons and fruit jellies, plus house signatures like langues de chat in four versions and Eugénie bites in six flavours. The countdown ends on a marshmallow bear coated in Dulcey chocolate. No fruit jellies, no nougat this time, and the ‘Soleil d’Or’ box is one you keep on display. One for fine-chocolate lovers who want a beautiful object as much as the treats inside.
AI Summary
- Macaron pyramid box in the ‘Soleil d’Or’ theme, illustrated by Jacques Merle with gold and silver stars
- 24 numbered drawers, one chocolate or confectionery treat a day
- 480g of chocolate and confectionery, a clear shift away from the old jelly-and-nougat mix
- Roughly £250 a kilo, which puts it in genuine premium territory
- Day 24 surprise: a marshmallow bear coated in Dulcey chocolate
- For fine-chocolate lovers and anyone who wants a box to keep on display
Ladurée Advent Calendar 2026: the ‘Soleil d’Or’ macaron pyramid, 24 drawers of chocolate
The Ladurée Advent Calendar 2026 breaks from the flat sweet box the house usually sends out. This year it takes the shape of a macaron pyramid, the collector box Ladurée has built its Christmas image around, with 24 numbered drawers to open one a day. The illustration is new too: Parisian artist Jacques Merle covers the bluish-white box with radiant suns and gold and silver stars, the ‘Soleil d’Or’ theme that runs through the whole 2026 collection.
Behind the drawers sit 480g of chocolates and confectionery, and that is the real shift. Where past editions leant on jellies, nougats and calissons, this one is built on chocolate: rochers, mendiants, orangettes, Eugénie bites. At £119.96 it sits firmly in premium territory, a box you buy for a chocolate lover or for yourself as a serious festive treat, not a stocking filler.
What’s inside the Ladurée advent calendar
Ladurée doesn’t publish the drawer-by-drawer breakdown, only the families, so here is what the 24 drawers hold. Chocolate first: rochers and mendiants in dark and milk, orangettes (candied orange peel in chocolate) and gingembrettes (candied ginger in chocolate), Incomparables in milk and dark, and chocolate pearls in pistachio, hazelnut, Ispahan almond and peanut. Then the house’s signatures in sweet form: langues de chat in milk, dark, vanilla and strawberry, and Eugénie bites in six flavours (caramel, pistachio, passion fruit, chocolate, vanilla, hazelnut). Plus 16 Royale and chocolate fritures. The 24th drawer hides a marshmallow bear coated in Dulcey chocolate, the last treat of the countdown. Anyone who prefers fine chocolate to the usual fruit-jelly assortment will find this one reads very differently from the calendars either side of it on the shelf.
=> The full drawer-by-drawer breakdown, grouped by chocolate and confectionery family, is in the SPOILER tab.
What Ladurée changed for 2026
Two things move this year, and both matter. The format first: the previous edition was a flat box, an assortment laid out in a classic tray, nougats, calissons, fruit jellies, caramels, enrobed almonds and hazelnuts, organic jams and honey. The 2026 calendar drops the flat box for the Soleil d’Or pyramid, a shaped collector box you can stand up and keep on display long after 24 December.
The contents move with it. The old mix was broadly confectionery; the new one leans into chocolate, with the rochers, mendiants and orangettes taking the place the calissons and fruit jellies used to hold. The positioning stays firmly premium: 480g for £119.96 works out at roughly £250 a kilo, which tells you plainly this is bought for the name and the box as much as for the grams inside.
My verdict on the Ladurée advent calendar 2026
Ladurée sells a collector box as much as a contents list, and the 2026 pyramid owns both sides of that. What works is the chocolate turn: rochers, mendiants and orangettes instead of last year’s calissons and fruit jellies, and the ‘Soleil d’Or’ box itself, a genuine piece of festive decor you keep instead of recycling. The variety holds up too, which is the real test for a sweet calendar, no single family repeated to pad out the drawers.
Where it stings is the price. At around £250 a kilo you are paying first for the name and the box, and only second for the 480g of chocolate. As I’d put it: ‘you’re buying a Ladurée object with chocolate inside, not chocolate in a Ladurée wrapper, and the price reflects exactly that.’ That’s fine if it’s what you want, and a stretch if it isn’t.
- For fine-chocolate fans and anyone who likes a beautiful box to keep, it’s coherent and the variety earns its place.
- For someone after plain sweets to graze on through December, it’s hard to justify at this price.
Versions of this calendar:
- Soleil d’Or Pyramid, 24 drawers, 480g (the single 2026 edition)
The Ladurée story
Ladurée is a Parisian maison founded in 1862, known worldwide for the double-decker macaron it helped make famous and for the macaron pyramid it stacks in its boutique windows at Christmas. That pyramid is the house’s calling card, so turning it into an advent calendar is less a gimmick than a return to its own signature shape.
The chocolate and confectionery side is the same workshop that supplies its tea rooms, which is why the 2026 box reads as a spread of house specialities, orangettes, langues de chat, Eugénie bites, rather than a generic chocolate selection bought in for the season.
Where to buy the Ladurée advent calendar 2026
The Ladurée Advent Calendar 2026 is available at Selfridges, priced £119.96 for the full 480g pyramid. There’s no discount code live at the time of writing. The comparison table on this page lists the stockists and their current prices.
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