Whittard Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar
£79.95
The Whittard Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar 2026 hides two 20g sachets behind every door: 24 doors, 48 cups, 12 flavours, each one appearing twice across four bases (white, milk, dark and a black cocoa). The set runs from the house Luxury to the 70% Dark Cocoa Sea Salt, with dessert blends like Sticky Toffee Pudding and a new Cinnamon Roll white. These are powders for hot milk, not water, and seven of the twelve are vegan with a plant-based milk. One for hot chocolate drinkers who want variety over a single flavour repeated all month.
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AI Summary
- 24 doors, two 20g sachets a day, so 48 servings and 960g in total
- 12 flavours, each behind two doors, across white, milk, dark and black cocoa bases
- Seven of the twelve are vegan when made with a plant-based milk
- Priced at £79.95, which works out at £1.67 a cup
- For hot chocolate drinkers who want a flavour range; free UK delivery over £30
Whittard Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar 2026: 24 doors, 48 cups and 12 flavours
The Whittard Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar 2026 puts two 20g sachets behind every door, so 24 doors give you 48 cups in total, 960g of powder across the month. There are 12 flavours in the box, each one appearing twice, spread over four bases: white, milk and dark chocolate, plus a black cocoa.
The line-up runs from the house Luxury and Luxury White to Salted Caramel, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Raspberry Ripple, Cookies and Cream, 70% Cocoa, 70% Dark Cocoa Sea Salt, Mint, Orange, Hazelnut and a Cinnamon Roll white. These are powders made for hot milk, not water, which keeps them thick. Seven of the twelve are vegan if you use a plant-based milk.
What is inside the Whittard hot chocolate advent calendar?
Twelve flavours, each behind two doors, and nothing else: no chocolates, no mug, no marshmallows. The count is fixed and easy to check: 24 doors, 48 sachets, 960g. Whittard doesn’t publish which flavour sits behind which door, so the order stays a surprise until you open it.
The range spans the four bases in a way that most single-brand chocolate calendars don’t. You get milk and white for the mornings you just want something warm, and two darks for the evenings, including the 70% Dark Cocoa Sea Salt, the most grown-up drink of the set. The dessert-led flavours (Sticky Toffee Pudding, Raspberry Ripple, Cinnamon Roll) are the ones people either love or leave.
=> The full flavour list, and the vegan ones, sit in the SPOILER tab.
What the Whittard hot chocolate contents are actually worth
Whittard does not disclose a contents value for this calendar, and the flavours aren’t sold on their own in this 20g sachet format, so there is no honest way to price the box up drum by drum. What can be measured is what it costs to drink: £1.67 a cup across the 48 servings, or £3.33 a door.
Against other single-brand chocolate calendars that lean on quantity, Whittard is buying you range instead of volume: 960g split into a dozen named blends, not one flavour repeated. That is the trade at £79.95, and it’s the fair way to judge the price.
2026 versus last year: three flavours swapped
The shape of the calendar hasn’t moved: same 24 doors, same two sachets a day, same 48 cups, same 12 flavours. What changed is the roster. Out go Rocky Road, Christmas Hot Chocolate and Crème Brûlée, all in the 2025 edition. In come 70% Dark Cocoa Sea Salt, Hazelnut and Cinnamon Roll.
The price moved too, and not in the buyer’s favour: up from £70 to £79.95, a £9.95 rise for an identically sized box. If you bought the 2025 calendar and liked the darker, saltier end of it, the new sea salt dark is a fair trade for the retired Christmas blend. If Crème Brûlée was your reason to buy, it’s gone.
My view on the Whittard Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar 2026
What works first is the spread. Twelve real flavours across four bases means you rarely get the same drink two days running, and that is the thing a chocolate calendar most often gets wrong. Whittard’s own Luxury is the anchor, and it earns its place; the dessert flavours are the gamble, and you’ll know within a week whether Sticky Toffee Pudding in a mug is your idea of December or not.
What I’d hold against it is the price. At £79.95 for 960g of drinking powder, you’re paying for the ritual and the flavour range as much as the chocolate, and the £9.95 jump since last year sharpens that. The honest case for it is simple: you actually drink this calendar down instead of letting it pile up in a drawer. Hot chocolate lovers who want variety over quantity will get their money’s worth; anyone after the cheapest way to a warm drink won’t.
- Not for you if you drink your hot chocolate made with water, or want a keepsake box or a mug thrown in.
- Worth it if you want 12 flavours to work through, share the two-a-day format, and don’t mind milk.
Versions of this calendar:
- Whittard Tea & Infusion Advent Calendar (24 teas and infusions)
- Whittard Coffee Advent Calendar (coffee, made for two)
Where to buy the Whittard Hot Chocolate Advent Calendar 2026
This calendar is sold at Whittard. There’s no promo code live at the moment, and UK delivery is free over £30, so the calendar clears that on its own. Compare the current offers at the top of this page.
Whittard, a tea and chocolate shop that leans on flavour
Whittard of Chelsea built its name on tea, coffee and hot chocolate sold loose and by flavour, not on novelty. That house style is exactly what this calendar trades on: instead of 24 identical drums, you get a dozen named blends to compare across the month.
It’s why the calendar reads more like a tasting flight than a stocking filler, and why the sister Tea and Coffee editions follow the same flavour-led idea.
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