Riegelein Advent Calendar Chocolate 75g (2.6oz)

Riegelein Advent Calendar Chocolate is a German Christmas advent calendar with 24 individually numbered chocolate windows, each concealing a small chocolate figure or shape that counts down the days from the 1st to the 24th of December — the classic German Adventskalender format in the Riegelein confectionery tradition. Riegelein is a chocolate manufacturer based in Coburg in Bavaria, a region with a long confectionery tradition, and the brand specialises in the seasonal chocolate formats — advent calendars, Easter figures, and Christmas novelty chocolates — that represent the distinctly German approach to marking the festive seasons with chocolate. The Advent calendar is one of Germany's most important contributions to global Christmas tradition: the practice of counting down the twenty-four days before Christmas Eve with small daily surprises originated in German Protestant households in the 19th century, and the chocolate Advent calendar — where each window opens to reveal a small chocolate piece — became one of the defining objects of the German Christmas season. Open one window per day from the 1st to the 24th of December as the daily chocolate countdown to Christmas, give as a children's gift to mark the beginning of Advent, or keep as the German Christmas calendar tradition for any household that observes the season.