New This Christmas: The British Treats in Canada for 2026

Christmas is here, and this year a worrying amount of it is Biscoff.

I have the order sheet on the counter in front of me and I keep reading it the way you read a menu you have already ordered from. Baubles. Truffles. Puddings. A tin of toffee that comes with its own hammer. And Biscoff. So much Biscoff.

The short version, before I get carried away: the new British Christmas chocolate for 2026 is mostly Cadbury and Toblerone getting into bed with Biscoff. Cadbury Biscoff Baubles, a Dairy Milk Biscoff Chunk Pouch, a Biscoff advent calendar, Toblerone Biscoff Truffles. Round the edges you get the pouches you were going to buy anyway, a full dairy-free range for the kids, a crisp that tastes of Sunday dinner, and a savoury shelf with a farm name on it that will make half of you grin. All of it is in our Christmas collection now.

Pull up a stool. I will show you what I have done.

The year Biscoff took over Christmas

I had my doubts about Biscoff. I had them for about a week.

If you have somehow avoided it until now, I am not going to be the one to explain it to you. All I will say is that it tastes like a biscuit decided to become a flavour and then refused to leave. For a few years it kept turning up in things it had no business being in, and this Christmas it has climbed onto the tree.

Three Cadbury Biscoff things for the tree and the sofa. The Cadbury Biscoff Bauble is a single 33.5 g chocolate bauble, the sort of thing you hang on a branch for about four hours before someone finds it. Then there is a three pack of the same baubles, for households that have learned from the four-hour problem. And the one I am most pleased about is the Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoff Chunk Pouch, 230 g of it, which is the first of the three I would open and the last I would share.

My honest ranking, since you asked with your eyes: the pouch, then the three pack, then the single bauble. The single bauble is lovely. It is also gone in two bites and you will immediately wish you had the three.

They sit on the Cadbury shelf alongside the Dairy Milk Biscoff Bar you came in for.

Is there a Cadbury Biscoff advent calendar?

There is, and it is the heavyweight of the shelf. The Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoff Chunk Advent Calendar is 236 g, which is more than twice the chocolate of a normal calendar, and the doors hide chunks rather than shapes. It is the one I would buy for an adult who will tell you it is for a child.

The rest of the advent shelf is the deepest we have had. The Cadbury Dairy Milk Advent Calendar for the British child. The Heroes Advent Calendar for the house that cannot agree on one chocolate. The Terry's Chocolate Orange Advent Calendar, the Galaxy, the Milky Way, the Milkybar, the Maltesers Merryteaser Reindeer, the Reese's, and the Moo Free White Chocolate Advent Calendar, which I will come back to, because it matters to a few families more than the rest put together.

I have written up every calendar we carry, with my honest view on each, in the advent calendar guide.

Toblerone has joined in

I did not have "Toblerone goes Biscoff" on my list of things to expect, and yet.

Toblerone Biscoff Truffles come in a 180 g box and they are, for my money, the best new thing on the whole shelf. The soft centre and the Biscoff together make sense in a way I did not anticipate. I ate three standing up in the kitchen and then put the box somewhere high. They are the one I would hand a Canadian in-law who thinks they know what Toblerone is.

The straight Toblerone Milk Chocolate Bar is here too, the 340 g one, the bar you cannot snap politely. There is a technique. It involves the edge of the table and a certain amount of commitment. There is a Fruit and Nut version for the person who likes an argument, and a box of the plain truffles for the person who does not. Between the bars and the truffles, the Toblerone we carry has a bit more to say for itself this year than one triangle.

The ones you were going to buy anyway

Every year the same argument breaks out in the shop, and every year I refuse to referee it.

Quality Street, Roses, Celebrations and Heroes are all back, as tubs and as pouches. The tubs are Quality Street, Cadbury Heroes, Cadbury Roses and Celebrations, and each one can be sent opened and nested so it travels. The pouches are the Quality Street Pouch, Roses Pouch, Heroes Pouch and Celebrations Pouch. I have opinions about which is best and I have written them down once, in the tin debate, so that I never have to say them out loud across the counter again. Nestlé Dairy Box is here too, for the person in your family who thinks the other four are too much fuss, and so is the After Eight carton, for the person who waits until everyone has gone home.

Terry's is back in force: the Milk, the Dark, the White, the Chocolate Orange Large Bar at 330 g, which is a lot of orange and does not need tapping on the table, and Terry's Chocolate Orange Truffles for the grown-up end of the sofa.

One of the old reliables: the Walker's Nonsuch Luxury Toffee Selection, hammer included, 400 g of toffee and a small hammer to break it with. I have nothing to add to a product that ships with a hammer, except that there is now a Toffee Duo and a Toffee Twin at half the size, hammers still included.

And Galaxy. A Mixed Miniatures Pouch at 260 g, the little 42 g bags of Minstrels, which are not strictly Christmas but somehow always are, and a Ripple three pack for the stocking.

If you are planning the whole December rather than just the sweet tin, the Christmas food guide is where I have put everything in one place.

The sweet shop end of the shelf

This is the bit of the order sheet that made me feel about nine years old.

Bonds of London in bags: Candy Canes, Chocolate Eclairs, Dolly Mixture, Wine Gums, Giant Strawbs, Jelly Beans and Mini Gems. The Mini Gems are the ones I would buy for the car. The Dolly Mixture is the one I would buy for the person who claims not to like sweets and then eats the whole bag during the King's speech.

Barratt has sent Black Jack and Fruit Salad stick packs, 36 g each. Swizzels has the Drumstick Chew Bar and a Mega Drumstick Lolly. Vimto turns up as Bon Bons and as a Chew Bar. And Tango Shocker Bars in four flavours, Apple, Blue Raspberry, Cherry and Orange, at 11 g a bar, which is a very small package for the amount of face-pulling involved.

Then the popcorn. Butterkist in Cinema Sweet, Crunchy Toffee, Simply Salted and Sweet & Salted. Werther's Original Caramel Popcorn at 140 g. And Taylors has done a Caramel Christmas Yule Log Toffee Popcorn, 155 g, which I bought on the name alone and do not regret, with a Toasted Marshmallow beside it.

All of this lives in British sweets. Bring a child. Or do not, and keep the Fruit Salads for yourself. I will not judge.

What is there for the kids, and for the dairy-free kid?

I take this one seriously, because the dairy-free child at a Christmas party is usually the one holding a satsuma while everyone else has chocolate.

Moo Free is the dairy-free range, and it is in with both feet this year. The White Chocolate Advent Calendar at 70 g. Choccy Coins, so there is something in the toe of the stocking. Festive Friends. Space Rocks. A Munch Mix. A Chocolate Santa Bar, a bag of White Chocolate Snowballs and Festive Caramel Filled Shapes. And a Moo Free Selection Box, which is the one I would put under the tree, because a selection box is a selection box, and every child should get to tear one open on the morning. If you are buying for a real allergy, read the pack yourself before you hand it over, every time.

For everyone else, the shaped stuff. A Smarties Giant Reindeer Tube, the kind of thing a child requests by pointing rather than speaking. The KitKat Orange Santa. Maltesers Mini Gingerbread Reindeers, the new one I am most curious about in this section. The Milkybar Reindeer for the white chocolate faction. Reese's Peanut Butter Santas, which I will defend in a moment. And Cadbury's own: the Large Hollow Santa, the Christmas Puds that are chocolate and not pudding, Snowy Fingers, Mini Snow Balls and the Winter Wonderland bar.

And the KitKat corner has gone slightly mad. There is a KitKat Chunky Giant Carton at 320 g, and a KitKat Formula 1 Tin, which exists for one specific kind of teenager and will be received by that teenager with more enthusiasm than anything else under the tree.

Diddly Squat Farm and the savoury side

I am not going to explain where the Diddly Squat Farm name comes from. If you know, you are already smiling. If you do not, ask the nearest Brit and clear your afternoon.

What I will tell you is what is on the shelf. Diddly Squat Farm Chilli Jam at 280 g. Real Ale Chutney, Piccalilli and Red Onion Marmalade, all 340 g. Blackberry Jam and Strawberry Jam, also 340 g. A Habanero Chilli Chutney for the brave, a Hot Seed Mustard for the ham and a bag of fudge for afterwards. And two biscuits under the Dunkers name, a British Shortbread and a Honey & Oat, 180 g each.

The chilli jam is the one I would buy. On a cheeseboard on Boxing Day, when the cheese is good and everyone has stopped pretending to be polite, it does the job the cranberry sauce thinks it is doing. The piccalilli is for the person at the table who grew up with it and has been quietly suffering in Canada without it.

Thursday Cottage is doing the pudding end of things. Christmas Pudding in 112 g and 454 g, each with a boxed version for giving. Brandy Butter and Amaretto Butter, 110 g each, because a pudding without something melting on it is just a dark cake. Then the deluxe jars: Fine Cut Marmalade with Whisky, Strawberry Jam with Champagne, a Deluxe Preserve Trio Gift Set, a Deluxe Curd Trio Gift Set, and a Christmas Chutney. Heat the pudding the way the pack says and warm the brandy before you light it, or it will sulk rather than catch.

On the crisp side, Taylors has made Duck & Roast Potato Ridge Cut Crisps, 150 g, and I have tasted them so you can trust me when I say they taste like the best bit of a Sunday dinner in crisp form. They brought friends: Beef Wellington and Port Gravy, Hot Honey Pigs in Blankets, Boxing Day Curry and Spicy Prawn Cocktail, which between them are a whole Christmas in five bags. Jacob's Mini Cheddars Red Leicester grab bags are in, so are Treeselets, which are Twiglets shaped like trees, and Walkers Squares Salt & Vinegar in a six-pack, which are not Christmas crisps in any way and will nonetheless be gone by Boxing Day. They all live in crisps.

The bits that are not Christmas at all

An order is an order. You fill it. Some of what went in has nothing to do with the season and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

Weetabix, a 12 pack, because somebody has to eat breakfast between the chocolate. Nestlé Cookie Crisp at 375 g, for the child who has worn you down. Lucozade Energy Original, 500 ml, for the morning of the twenty-sixth, when you need it most and deserve it least. Barr Red Kola, also 500 ml, which I will be hiding at the back of the fridge for myself.

McVitie's White Chocolate Hobnobs at 262 g and Penguin Caramel in a seven pack. Milky Way Crispy Rolls. A Cadbury Dairy Milk Daim and a Cadbury Caramilk bar, both of which I ordered without consulting anyone.

And Reese's. A 10 pack of Peanut Butter Cups, the Santas I mentioned, and a gift tin. I know. I have no defence, except that they were on the sheet and I did not cross them out, and I suspect a few of you will be glad I did not.

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Questions people ask us

What is new in British Christmas chocolate for 2026?

Biscoff, mostly. Cadbury Biscoff Baubles (single and three pack), a Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoff Chunk Pouch, a Biscoff Chunk advent calendar, and Toblerone Biscoff Truffles are the headline new lines. Maltesers Mini Gingerbread Reindeers, the Taylors Yule Log Toffee Popcorn and the Taylors Christmas dinner crisps are the others I would call new.

Can I buy the Cadbury Biscoff Baubles in Canada?

Yes. The single bauble and the three pack are both in our Christmas collection, and we ship them anywhere in Canada.

Are the Toblerone Biscoff Truffles worth it?

In my opinion, yes, and they are the best new thing on the whole shelf. The 180 g box is the one I would give to someone who thinks they already know Toblerone.

Is there a dairy-free Christmas chocolate option?

Moo Free, in nine forms this year, including a White Chocolate Advent Calendar, Choccy Coins, a Santa Bar and a Selection Box. The Selection Box is the one I would put under the tree.

Which one should I buy if I can only buy one?

The Cadbury Dairy Milk Biscoff Chunk Pouch if you want chocolate. The Diddly Squat Farm Chilli Jam if you want to win Boxing Day. Buy both and tell your household I told you to.

The shelf is full, the kettle is on, and I am the one in Bayers Lake pretending the Biscoff truffles are stock and not lunch. Come and say hello.