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Hotel Chocolat has expanded its Halloween portfolio for 2026 with a range of new chocolate products designed for seasonal hosting, sharing and gifting.
The collection includes new Skull Lick, Oozy Eye Selectors and Fright Night Selectors, alongside returning products including Grim Treater Skulls, Halloween Nice Slice and Boo Boxes. The products are available in-store and online.
The Grim Treaters (£12.95) features four chocolate skulls in two designs and flavours. One combines milk chocolate with hazelnut praline, caramel éclat and feuilletine, while the other pairs high-cacao caramel chocolate with pecan praline, dark chocolate with hazelnut praline, caramel éclat and feuilletine.
The Boo Boxes (£9.95) contain 16 individually wrapped chocolate characters, with options including milk chocolate Carvin the Pumpkin, solid caramel-milk Cryptopher the Vampire and dark chocolate Wingston the Bat.
Also joining the range is the Frightful Bites Halloween Box (£17.95), containing 14 seasonal recipes spanning caramels, pralines and solid chocolates. The selection includes Oozy Eyes made with either 36% white or 40% milk chocolate and filled with molten red caramel.
For seasonal gifting and display, the Yumpkin (£6.95) is made from 40% milk chocolate and is ribbon-tied, while the Grim Treater Chocolate Lick (£2.95) features a Grim Treater in 40% milk chocolate.
The Fright Night Chocolate Selector (£4.65) features white peanut pralines and 50% milk chocolate ganache, while the Oozy Eyes Halloween Selector (£4.65) comprises 36% white chocolate filled with molten red caramel.
Hotel Chocolat has also extended the Halloween occasion into its Velvetiser Cafés with the Cherry Scary Sundae (£7.50), available from 2 October. The dessert combines sour cherry-flavoured ice cream with cherry sauce, milk crisp pearls and a Halloween-themed chocolate.
The launch forms part of Hotel Chocolat's wider premium chocolate offering. The company, founded in 2004, operates across the cacao-growing, manufacturing and retail stages of its supply chain, including a cacao farm in Saint Lucia and a chocolate manufacturing facility in Cambridgeshire, UK.
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