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
As always, please check the labels for yourself just incase anything has changed or supermarkets have made a mistake on their website info
*CHANGES FROM 2022*
These are all pictured in the sections below…
New products that are gluten free:
- Matchmakers Caramel Coffee
- Quality Street Collisions
- Twirl Pouch
- Toblerone Orange
These are the ones I want to flag as its soooooo easy to make a mistake:
- Cadbury Winter Orange Crisp Bar – they’ve made a slightly different bar to last years “winter orange bar” which was gluten free. This one is a may contain. Careful, it in very similar packaging.
- Toblerone Truffles – almost all Toblerone products are gf but this one is not!!!
- 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!!
- Classics Mixed Chocolate Chunks – the pouch is gluten free, tins are not. I’m not 100% sure why… I have a feeling they’ll be individually labelled with the allergens inside the box so I’ll buy some boxes and find out!
(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. Careful with any special edition tins (e.g John Lewis had a special “Crispy Truffle Bite” a couple of years ago that was not gluten free)
(2) GLUTEN FREE – Other Chocs
Cadbury
- Milk Tray
- Twirl Pouch
- Snowman
- Snow Balls
- Buttons in Festive Tube (there used to be a Freddo Faces Tube too but not sure if it exists anymore)
Milkybar
Terry’s
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
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
- Caramel Coffee
Quality Street Bars
- Collisions
- Orange Crunch
- Purple One
Toblerone
- Orange
- White
- Christmas Selection
Walnut Whip Selection Box
Baileys Chocolate Collection
After Eight Dark Mint Chocolate Gift Tin
Quality Street
- Favourites Strawberry Delight
- Favourites the Purple One
(3) GLUTEN & DAIRY FREE
Moo Chocolates
Nomo
Booja Booja Selection Box – there’s a whole variety of flavours now! Expensive but so good.
(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
Tobrlerone
Cadbury – most of these are may contain gluten
- Winter Chocolate Bars – Winter Orange Crisp, Winter Wonderland, Snowballs
- 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
- 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
Guylian Shells
