Your taste buds aren't deceiving you -- the chocolate in your advent calendar does, in fact, taste different. Getty Images The proof is in the cocoa — there’s a difference between regular and ...

The bad news? They're nearly sold out. As with the rest of the Advent calendars we've been covering this fall, chocolate-filled ones have been flying off the shelves. Our favorite brands like ...

Chocolate advent calendars will always be a favourite ... If that wasn't enough to impress, the boxes can be rearranged to create new images for an ever-changing decoration.

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With that popularity has come a dizzying array of new advent calendars, stuffed with so much more than just the little morsels of chocolate that many of us remember from our childhood.

The most common type of Advent calendar is one that has paper calendar doors and a little piece of chocolate behind each door. You should start with the door marked "one" and work your way up to 25.

"When my mum was a child, her Advent Calendars were made of paper. There were little paper doors you could open with little pictures behind them," she tells SBS Food. The first chocolate Advent ...

On the first day of December, we open one door a day and enjoy a treat, like a foil-wrapped chocolate Santa. Like many who celebrate, the Advent calendar has remained a beloved tradition ...