DIY Truffle Advent Calendar

To get you into the holiday spirit, why not make a homemade chocolate advent calendar to give your loved one a daily surprise and make the countdown to Christmas extra special? At Lir, we are always thinking of ways to be innovative: all the following items can be purchased in your local craft store and on the Lir website. Doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?

Materials:

• 24 paper mache boxes
• Festive holiday paper
• Normal glue
• Super glue
• Scissors or paper cutter

Lir Chocolate:

• Lir Almond & Hazelnut Truffles: A Milk Chocolate truffle covered in crunchy roasted Hazelnuts with a delicious praline centre. The perfect chocolate for nut lovers!
• Lir Salted Caramel Truffles: Smooth soft caramel with a pinch of Irish Atlantic Sea salt in rich milk chocolate.
• Lir Marc de Champagne Truffles: Milk Chocolate Marc de Champagne flavoured truffles dusted with freeze dried strawberries.
• Lir Milk Chocolate Truffles: Soft and refined milk chocolate truffles infused with Madagascan vanilla.
• Baileys Salted Caramel Mini Delights: A crisp milk chocolate shell with a salted caramel filling and a hint of the iconic Baileys flavour.
• Guinness Mini Caramels: A creamy milk chocolate shell filled with smooth caramel flavoured with Guinness beer.

Method:

1. Measure the top of the boxes and cut a piece of festive holiday paper to fit each box using scissors or a paper cuter
2. Glue the festive paper to the top of each box using normal glue
3. Write numbers 1-24 on the boxes
4. Glue the boxes together in lines of 4x6 using super glue
5. Place a Lir Chocolate Truffle in each of the boxes
6. Gift the advent calendar to your loved one for them to enjoy!