The Ultimate Gluten Free Christmas Chocolate Guide 2022

Here’s my EASY GUIDE to Gluten Free Christmas Chocolates!! Its split into 4 sections:

(1) Gluten free – tins

(2) Gluten free – other chocolates

(3) Gluten and dairy free

(4) Not gluten free!!!! The ones to avoid

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As always, please check the labels for yourself just incase anything has changed or supermarkets have made a mistake on their website info

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*CHANGES FROM 2021*

These are all pictured in the sections below…

New products that are gluten free:

• Cadbury Dairy Milk Advent Bar
• Quality Street bars

These are the ones I want to flag as its soooooo easy to make a mistake:

• Snowballs bar – bags of snowballs are fine but the bars are a may contain.
• Malteser vs Kit Kat – both in red bags and similar figures so its easy to pick up the wrong thing
• Kinder Joy eggs are not gluten free but the Kinder Surprise ones are. They look almost identical.
• Baileys selection box – seems to be two on sale now, one with gluten, one without… be careful!!

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(1) GLUTEN FREE – Tins

Cadbury Roses – all safe!

Cadbury Hero’s – all safe EXCEPT the dinky decker. They have confirmed the dinky deckers are made on a different production line so there’s no CC risk

Quality street – all safe excluding the John Lewis special edition “Crispy Truffle Bite”, although I’m not sure if they’re doing it this year!

Cadbury Dairy Milk Mixed Chocolate Chunks Tin

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(2) GLUTEN FREE – Other Chocs

Cadbury

• Classics Mixed Chocolate Chunks Pouch
• Snowman
• Snow Balls
• Buttons in Festive Tube (there used to be a Freddo Faces Tube too but not sure if it exists anymore)
• Winter Orange Bar
• Advent Bar

Milkybar

• Festive Friends

Terry’s

• Chocolate Orange Milk Crispy Oranges 

Lindt

Lots of Lindt chocolates contain barley malt extract. Sometimes this ingredient can be considered gluten free because the level of gluten is less than 20 parts per million. Lindt’s own website implies their levels are gluten free but to my knowledge, Coeliac UK are still in the process of confirming whether this is accurate.

As a result, if you see barley malt extract in the list of ingredients on a Lindt product, I will not be considering it safe until we hear back.

These are the safe bits I’ve found:

• White or strawberries and cream truffle balls
• Nuxor (milk and dark)
• White Santa

Aero

• Snowbubbles
• Festive Orange

KitKat

• Santa’s – be careful!!! they look like the Malteser Reindeers which are NOT gluten free. Also, just wanted to flag that we can have the Kit Kat advent calendar too!!

Ferrero Rocher

• Grand Ferrero Rocher Milk
• Grand Ferrero Rocher Dark

Reese’s

• Tree
• Snowman

Toffifee

• Christmas Edition

Kinder

• Surprise Figures
• Christmas Egg – NOT the Kinder Joy eggs
• Kinder Chocolate Small Bars Multipack

Matchmakers – Quality Street editions

• Honeycomb
• Cool Mint
• Orange

Quality Street Bars

• Orange Crunch
• Purple One

Toblerone

• Golden Caramel with Honey & Almond Nougat
• White
• Christmas Selection

Walnut Whip Selection Box

Bendick’s Mint Collection

Baileys Chocolate Collection

After Eight Dark Mint Chocolate Gift Tin

Quality Street

• Favourites Strawberry Delight
• Favourites the Purple One

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(3) GLUTEN & DAIRY FREE

Cookie Dough Reindeer 

Moo Chocolates – white and milk

Nomo Caramel Choc Drops Box

Booja Booja Selection Box – there’s a whole variety of flavours now! Expensive but so good.

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(4) NOT GLUTEN FREE

Celebrations – Cross contamination risk with all of them

Baileys Choc Collection Box – no longer gf 🙁

Thorntons – think EVERYTHING is a may contain now

Lindt – See the Lindt products in the gluten free section for a bit more info for what I think is/isn’t gluten free with Lindt. My “isn’t gluten free” list includes:

• ANY of the plain milk chocolate items – e.g. tree decs, red truffle balls, bear, reindeer.
• Any of the truffle ball flavours not listed in the section above (i.e. we can only have strawberries and cream or white choc)
• The snowflake or snowdrops

Ferrero Rocher – any tin/size, except the giant ones!

Terrys Oranges and Bar – all a “may contain gluten”. Only allowed the ‘Crispy Oranges’ in the first section.

MilkyBar Characters – may contain

Galaxy Truffles – may contain gluten

Cadbury – most of these are may contain gluten

• Winter Chocolate Bars –
• Chocolate Noisette Jingly Bells & Hazelnut Creme Jingly Bells
• Chocolate House Kit 
• Bauble Tree Decorations (all size packs)
• Little Robins (both flavours)
• Winter Collection Milk Chocolate Box
• Puds Egg 
• Darkmilk Pralines
• Festive Favourites
• Chocolate Xmas Bar 850g

Malteser Reindeer and Truffles

Nestle Munchies Festive Tube

Smarties – all of them are “may contain” or contain gluten

Quality Street Intrigue Range – all “may contain gluten”

Tony’s Christmas Chocs – all may contain

Kinder Joy Egg – the “Joy” egg is not gluten free but the “surprise” eggs are

M&M’s Milk Chocolate Christmas Santa Shape with Mini Chocolate – May contain gluten

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Dj Santa’s Disco Lights – may contain gluten

After Eight Dark Mint Chocolate Sticks – may contain gluten