You'll find a delicious shortbread behind every window, including all butter mini choc chip shortbread, shortbread fingers, salted caramel squares and shortbread hearts, all of which were equally delicious. Christmas makes us up our chocolate game, from basic Snickers to refined Swiss fare and Lindt sure know how to capitalise on that.

There are some amazing treats inside including 12 hot chocolate bombs in different flavours, eight hot chocolate spoons and sprinkles. Whoever came up with Lego advent calendars is now rich enough to build their own life-size spaceship. The only downside is each day only has one of each, so you’ll either have to use it as a 12 day calendar, or save your gin and tonic for every other day. Behind each door is a small bag of popcorn in six different flavours: Butterscotch, Cherry Pie, Chocolate Orange, Gingerbread, Cocoa Caramel and Christmas Pudding.

My daughter Olive, six, in particular, loved trying the different festive flavours and it includes a surprise gift for Christmas Day.

Being endlessly personalisable, iced biscuits are a popular gift – but to keep 24 of them fresh, you really need a tin. The full list is further down, but if you’re in a hurry, here’s a quick look at our top five: Which are the best advent calendars in 2023? The large central door for Christmas Day boasts a raspberry and prosecco marshmallow bar covered in Belgian milk chocolate. It’s the perfect way to make her December, or keep it hidden and drip feed the presents throughout the year. Flavours include Milk Caramel with Cinnamon, Chestnut Orange with Spices and cherry with Pink Peppercorn.

The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. More of a family heirloom than an advent calendar, Wedgwood’s ultra-high end offering is an 18-inch tall townhouse filled with 24 exquisitely detailed bone china ornaments in white and blue jasper, all part of the historic firm’s Christmas 2023 collection. Biscuiteers’ solution is to team up with designer Sophie Conran on on a limited-edition cloth calendar with 24 embroidered pockets, with the biscuits sold separately. The countdown to Christmas can be just as exciting for adults as it is for kids with a whole array of delicious snacks, from boozy marshmallows and popcorn to Pringles and cheese. We’ve picked the Lego Star Wars one but could equally recommend the Lego Harry Potter advent calendars, There are dozens in all, and Playmobil advent calendars now vie for kids’ attention too.