Beech's Chocolate Santa & Snowmen - 100g

Chocolate shapes are part of the furniture at a British Christmas, sitting somewhere between the selection box and the tin that does the rounds after dinner. Beech's is a Lancashire chocolate maker better known for its creams, so this is the slightly more grown-up end of the novelty shelf.

Christmas in Canada has a lot going for it. What people miss are the small things from home, and a chocolate Santa is a surprisingly small thing to do so much work. One on the table and suddenly it is 1994 and your nan is asking who wants a sherry.

It is a 100g pack, which is plenty for a couple of stockings or a few place settings, and not so much that it sees the new year. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and ideally out of sight of whoever finished the last lot.

It sits nicely alongside the rest of a British Christmas cupboard: a UK selection box, crackers, a tin of something for Boxing Day. Beech's also makes chocolate creams, which are the ones the grown-ups quietly keep for themselves.