Ultimate holiday playlist for a remarkable December
Countdown to the holidays with our Advent calendar chocolate truffle collection
Christmas songs playing in the background is the perfect way to get into the spirit of the holidays. Whether you’re trying to shake your Grinch mood or just love singing along while you deck the halls, we have the perfect soundtrack for the season. Indulge in our holiday playlist-inspired Advent calendar collection chocolate truffles during the 25 days leading up to Christmas morning.
Sing your way through December with the perfect holiday playlist, complemented by 25 days of chocolate. Each day in December reveals a new song, complete with a snippet of the lyrics that inspired the flavor, making our Advent calendar chocolate truffles a fun and interactive way to countdown to the holiday season. Each selection features our family’s favorite songs to celebrate the season.
Our Advent calendar will take you down ‘memory lane’ with favorite holiday songs, plus introduce you to new ones which are sure to surprise and delight. Make each day of December memorable with a clue found on the card. Use the snippet of the lyrics to guess the song which inspired each day’s flavor. As you remove each decadent truffle from the box, the flavor of the day will be revealed.
Enjoy more opportunities to follow along and hum a tune all December long with a daily newsletter revealing the song that inspired the flavor of the day. Follow the link in the newsletter to an interactive webpage with the inspiration behind the truffle flavor, interesting song facts and trivia, plus more.
Inspiration
This classic holiday song is inspired by snow covered roads and striped candy treats, both symbols of the wintery holiday season. Small village streets were often called lanes. In the winter, the snow and ice on the road at night can sparkle and glow if the light hits it just right – hence, silver lanes aglow. Leaving a cooling sensation, mint could be described as the flavor of snow.
Candy canes are a nostalgic symbol of Christmas. This candy was first invented around 1670 in Cologne, Germany at the request of the choirmaster at the Cologne Cathedral. These bent sugar sticks (designed to resemble a shepard’s crook) were made as a way to silence children during the lengthy Christmas church pageants. Peppermint and the traditional red stripes were added much later in the 1900s.
Candy cane chocolate truffle
Experience the scent of minty sweetness of our Candy cane chocolate truffle. Inspired by the nostalgic red and white striped wintery treat, experience a refreshing bite of cooling peppermint speckled throughout a luscious white chocolate, all wrapped in a bittersweet shell.
Ingredients: white chocolate, dark chocolate, heavy cream, mint, sugar
Song & artist trivia
Although ‘It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas’ has been recorded by many artists, our favorite is the Bing Crosby version recorded October 1, 1951.
Originally titled “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas”, this holiday classic was written by Meredith Willson in 1951. It is believed that Willson wrote the song while visiting Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The song makes reference to a “tree in the Grand Hotel” believe to be in the Yarmouth’s Grand Hotel and “one in the park as well” located directly across from the hotel in Frost Park. Another possibility is that the song lyrics were inspired by the Historic Park Inn Hotel in Willson’s hometown of Mason City, Iowa. The Park Inn Hotel, situated in downtown Mason City overlooking central park, is the last remaining hotel in the world designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Inspiration
Winter holidays truly shine, with the sparkling snow, the candles flickering in windows, and the cheery warmth that people experience and share. If this brightness could be summed up with a song, it would be “The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole, a singer with a cozy and comforting voice that pairs perfectly with this time of the year.
Of course, the holiday season is also full of traditional foods like turkey. A group seated around the table, a carved bird in the center, a sprig of mistletoe in the doorway, the lights on the tree shining…It all helps to make the season bright and beautiful.
Candy cane chocolate truffle
Perhaps the most well-known line from this song is “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” so that hint would have been too easy. Besides, we jump at any chance to handcraft a uniquely savory chocolate truffle flavor…like turkey and gravy! The herbs appear at the front of the tasting and balance out the chocolate. As the thyme and sage fade away, there is a hint of sweetness.
So, no, there is no actual meat in the truffle, as it’s simply a decadent dessert inspired by everyone’s favorite holiday meal.
Ingredients: white chocolate, dark chocolate, heavy cream, mint, sugar
Song & artist trivia
Interesting facts & trivia
“The Christmas Song” is another holiday hit that was written during the hot summer of 1945, by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. While it went on to become the most-performed Christmas song, Nat King Cole is the person we usually think of and hear, and he actually recorded three versions of it: the first in 1946, accompanied by string instruments; the next with a full orchestra in 1953; and a stereophonic version in 1961.
