Cadbury Dairy Milk Large Hollow Santa - 100g

A hollow chocolate figure is part of a British Christmas the way crackers are. Nobody strictly needs one. Everybody notices when it is missing. And Dairy Milk is the chocolate a lot of British families quietly measure everything else against.

The search usually starts in November. Someone remembers the Santa on the windowsill at their nan's, then realises their own kids have never had one. A taste of home at Christmas does not have to be a whole dinner. Sometimes it is one chocolate man with a smug face.

He is a large hollow figure, 100g of Dairy Milk, which makes him a good weight for the top of a stocking or a small gift on someone's plate at Christmas dinner. Keep him somewhere cool and well away from the radiator. A warm Santa is a sad Santa.

People tend to buy him alongside the rest of the Cadbury Christmas line-up, a selection box for the stocking or a tin of Roses for after the pudding. If you are putting together a parcel for someone who misses home, he is the one they will spot first.