Handmade Chocolates - Chocolate Truffles - Online Chocolate
Here are the very best of the online shops for online chocolate from handmade chocolates to chocolate truffles with a wide range of prices so you can spend (literally) a small fortune on the highest quality chocolate or go for something more reasonable.
The beauty of buying chocolate online is that you can have it sent out on your behalf with a personalised message, usually with extremely speedy delivery. The only problem is resisting ordering some for yourself. Treat yourself and do both, you know you deserve it.
Hotel Chocolat - Luxury Chocolate Gifts
This is a really lovely and well designed website with a large selelction of beautifully packaged chocolates. Send someone a Chocogram Delux or Champagne Truffles or let them choose and order their Seasonal Selection. They also have some unusual goodies such as Strawberries in White Chocolate, Christmas Crates and Chocolate Logs, Goody Bags and Rocky Road Slabs. Resist if you can.
Melt - Luxury Handmade Chocolate and Chocolate Gifts
Here you’ll find such wonders as raspberry and white chocolate bonbons, sea salted caramels, champagne truffles and Choconola jars, and doesn’t just the sound of all of that make you want to try? Visit their website and it gets even worse, as you can ask their master chocolatier to hand pick a selection of their amazing truffles straight from the kitchen to fill your chosen box size. Oh dear. Call for express delivery.
London Fine Foods - Luxury chocolates by Valrhona plus Olive Oil, Cheeses and More
This is an extremely tempting website, where you can order the highest quality chocolate by Valrhona and Paul Wayne Gregory plus luxuries such as olive oil and balsamic vinegar, British and French cheese, caviar, Foie Gras, black and white truffles and truffle oil and champagne.
Everything is beautifully photographed with lots of information about every product - where it comes from and what makes it special. They offer gift vouchers as well.
Everything is beautifully photographed with lots of information about every product - where it comes from and what makes it special. They offer gift vouchers as well.
The Chocolate Trading Company - Charbonel et Walker and Chocolate Gifts Online
Here's a mouthwatering selection of chocolates, from Charbonel et Walker serious chocolate indulgences and chocoholics hampers to funky and fun chocolates such as chocolate sardines and Jungle Crunch. They'll send out your chocolates for you with a personalised gift card and give you lots of information on how to know when you're tasting the best. This is all quite irresistible so beware when you click on this site!
Montezumas - Organic Chocolate Gifts and Chocolate Truffles
Montezumas produce a range of around forty different hand made truffles, with names such as Caribbean Rhythm, Irish Tipple and Lost in Space. You can order by selecting one of their ready made collections or choose your own from the complete list. Buy organic cocoa drinking chocolate, fantastic fudge and chocolate hampers here too.
Amelie Chocolate
Heart shaped boxes (with heart shaped chocolates inside), miniature gift boxes and champagne truffles are just some of the continental chocolates you can order here, with a unique selection of freshly made delicacies from Belgium, Holland, France, and Germany. .
Chocolate Buttons
LET YOUR CHILDREN ON THIS WEBSITE AT YOUR PERIL! From old fashioned sherbert to Toblerone, chocolate coins, novelties and gifts, jelly beans and natural candy canes this site is a cornucopia of irresistable sweets. Not only that, but you can buy in quantity here. They won't stop you from buying one bag of chocolate Victorian coins, but why not buy 30? Surely you'll find a use for them. Just see if you can resist!
Chouchoute
I have to confess it took me a while to get past the wonderful picture of the chocolate ginger I came across here – and only real strength of will made me resist rushing for my credit card. This Birmingham based chocolatier, created by ex Fauchon (Paris) traiteur Pierre Soualah offers fabulous pampering chocolates from gift boxes to hampers and although the range is quite small I’m sure, like me, you’ll find it extremely hard to resist.
Fortnum and Mason - Luxury Chocolate Truffles and Chocolate Bars
For the real chocoholic Fortnum and Mason has to be one of the ultimate destinations, where you can find up to 100% chocolate bars. Their boxes of chocolate truffles and special occasion chocolate boxes beautifully packaged as you would expect and extremely high quality as is everything from this famous Piccadilly store.
Glickmans
Glasgow based confectionary shop Glickmans is definitely not one to let your kids loose on, as they offer an irresistible cornucopia of traditional sweets, such as chocolate ginger, jellies, vanilla fudge and cream tablet, plus Belgium chocolate mice, black and white mints, sugared almonds and lots more. They're happy to ship worldwide. If you have a sweet tooth, beware.
Green and Blacks - High Quality Organic Chocolate
For beautifully packaged, high quality organic chocolate at a reasonable price this company is a must. You can order ribbon tied selections of their bars, gift boxes such as The Chocolate Gardener and Coffee Indulgence or use their bespoke service where you choose which of their products should go into one of their stylish gift boxes. They also offer ribbon decorated wedding favours and again you can choose what you want to include. Buy here for Easter, Christmas and any time you want a chocolate themed gift.
La Maison du Chocolat
This is a luxuriously designed website from a famous house of chocolates with boutiques all over the world. There are gorgeously packaged gift boxes, selections of truffles, high quality chocolate tablets and squares and delicacies such as praline coated Italian almonds, soft flavoured caramels and traditionally made fruit pastes. How can you resist?
Leonidas
For the ultimate in Belgian chocolates click through to this dedicated website and make your choice. First you choose the size of box you want to order and then choose from the chocolate menu with possibilities such as Butter Creams, General Assortment, milk or dark chocolates, Napolitanis and Liqueurs. These will then be boxed up for you and despatched, be Express Delivery if you choose, to anywhere in the UK.
Neuhaus
Chocaholics totally beware here, if you're buying chocs for a gift you'll almost certainly not be able to resist buying a few for yourself as well. For serious Luxury Chocolates this is a wonderful place, offering deluxe gift boxes, fun Tintin and heart tins, liqueur chocolates and beautifully presented truffle selections in different sizes. There's a standard express price to the UK and other countries.
The House of Chocolates
If your taste is for the top brand chocolates such as those from Godiva and Ackerman to Charbonel et Walker and Neuhaus then this is the place for you. There's a lot to choose from - a chocolate heart box or chocolate covered crystalised ginger (my favourite) from Charbonel, Ackerman's luxurious truffles, luxury boxes from Godiva and Duchy of Cornwall Chocolate Mint Thins. There's quite a wide price range from the reasonable to the truly expensive and you'll also find, diabetic, Kosher and dairy free chocolates as well.
Theo Broma Cacao
Forget your usual last minute hunt for a chocolate egg next Easter and click straight through here, where you can order fine hand-crafted chocolates developed by specialist pattisier Philip Neal. You can buy wonderful gift selections from seasonal boxes to heart shaped gifts for Valentine’s Day as well, but I would suggest that (at the right time of year, of course) you take a good look at his Marbled Finished and ‘Spun’ eggs, prettily wrapped mini eggs and unique red hand-painted eggs. Definitely for grownup chocaholics
Thorntons
Ideal for Easter, Birthdays, Anniversaries and Weddings, or simply when you want to treat yourself. You can buy their delicious chocolate hampers, choose 800g of continental chocolates or one of Thorntons classic boxes and you'll also find gifts to add such as wine, flowers and Steiff bears. As well as all of this they have a small collection of cards which they'll personalise for you and send out with your gift.

