Holidays A La Maison 

HOLIDAY STARSTRUCK EXPERIENCE

This Holiday season brings the best of La Maison du Chocolat to your home with a full chocolate experience to delight your palate and your eyes. Our team of chocolate experts will come to your home and decorat it for the Holiday, including the installation of our "Star-Struck Holiday Ornament" Artistic Masterpiece; full service in-home chocolate experience for up to 16 people. 

Whether you’re gifting this experience to a loved one or simply using the concierge service to complete your holiday shopping, ‘HOLIDAYS A LA MAISON’ is the gift of the season. La Maison du Chocolat offers a wide array of styles for all of life’s biggest occasions. Each year, La Maison du Chocolat reveals the genius of chocolate by introducing consumers to a beautifully designed, carefully constructed line of Holiday treats that were over a year in the making.

Holiday Starstruck Experience: $10,000 the piece

HOLIDAY VIRTUAL STAR STRUCK

Perfecting in sync with the finesse of Maison savoir-faire, the paper-artist Giselle Balosso-Bardin showcases her whimsical universe in this entanglement of Holiday ornaments.  Suspended like lanterns, adorned with motifs, and linked with a delicate interlaced garland, the ornaments are highlighted with gold embossing. They lend a festive air to this collection of gift boxes to celebrate contrast and light.

The "Petit Holiday Ornament” is made entirely by hand in our ateliers, the fruit of the work of our artisan chocolatiers. Since the hazelnuts and almonds are heavier than the pistachios and chocolate beads, the placement of the nuts on the chocolate leaves nothing to chance. Each piece is set by hand, one after the other, before the chocolate crystallizes. This attention to detail enhances the aesthetic appearance and guarantees an ideal distribution of flavor.

Dark chocolate 56% with whole nuts: caramelized almonds and hazelnuts (Spain), pistachios (Iran) and raspberry chocolate beads. Natural coloring dye. Ribbon is not edible.

In his repertoire of recipes, good begets good so Nicolas Cloiseau created two new chocolate creations exclusively for this gift box.

• A play on Holiday traditions, this almond paste is a true delicacy, featuring the grainy moist texture of luscious figs, deliciously contrasted with a traditional almond praliné with a tinge of cinnamon buds.
• A dark chocolate vegan* ganache, with panache, all intensity, and subtlety. This rare intense cacao 69% hails from São Tomé. For our Chef, it was love at first sight for this pure origin, a natural blend of acidulous tones with its colorful gentle spices.  Wonderful relaunch of cacao culture on the island of São Tomé and rehabilitation of fine cacao because for a long time this country had lost sight of the fact that they were a pioneer in cacao.

* without cream or butter

These virtual, ticketed tastings will kick off on December 1^st and occur on a weekly basis through December 22^nd.  Guests can enjoy a holiday giftbox and virtual tasting led by the La Maison du Chocolat team. 

Holiday Virtual Starstruck Available Dates:

December 1st, 2021: $150  

December 8th, 2021: $150

December 15th, 2021: $150

December 22th, 2021: $150

Gift Boxes 100% cardboard, 100% recyclable (excluding the ribbon). Made in France.

STAR-STRUCK ORNAMENT BÛCHE (2021 exceptional buche)

Nicolas Cloiseau still has more to share about the beloved Holiday favorite: the Bûche de noël.  In the spirit of the Holidays,  Nicolas lets the light shine on the artisans who work with him. At the atelier, Holiday creations are all about teamwork, where chocolatiers and pastry chefs come together to shine a light on the art of Maison chocolate, some baking, some decorating.

The endless possibilities of chocolate invite a study in contrasts and balance of flavor.  First the freshness of the violette de Solliès fig, cut, poached, almost candied, rests upon traditionally roasted caramelized pralinés. Then intense notes of nuts appear and allow a moist crunchy cake, featuring almonds from Provence, to take over. The acidulous roasted intensity of a fine layer of chocolate mousse gives the impression of extreme lightness.  Taste takes center stage to guarantee an absolutely star-struck ornament of a dessert.

Star-Struck Ornament Bûche: 120€ the piece

One size of 6/8 persons in limited edition. Available only on reservation in one of our boutiques. Pick up your bûche in our shops from 20 to 24 December 2021. For more information, click here.

Dark chocolate mousse 69% pure origin from the island of São Tomé, traditional praliné with almonds from Provence, moist cake with crunchy almonds, layer of fresh moist violette figs from Solliès (Var). Decorated with 8 dark chocolate ornaments xx% 5 different diameters on both sides of the bûche, with 572 perforations, adorned with stars delicately tinted with an airbrush gun. Gold string ties are not edible.