Count the days. Skip the sugar.
Twenty-four milk chocolates behind the doors of a little Christmas town. Sweetened with monk fruit, 0 g added sugar, so the countdown becomes a daily ritual rather than a daily regret.
- ✦ Sugar free
- ✦ Monk fruit sweetened
- ✦ 100% natural
- ✦ Limited quantities
On its own it clears the LE 500 delivery minimum.
- 24 doorsA milk chocolate behind each
- 0 g added sugarSweetened with monk fruit
- Limited editionWhen they’re gone, they’re gone
- Delivered coldCairo & Giza · 1–3 days
24 doors, 24 little stories.
Behind every door on this page there’s a fact, a ritual or a small piece of Christmas history. Behind every door on the box there’s a chocolate.
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Cocoa butter melts at about 34 °C, just under body temperature. So your chocolate waits patiently behind its door, then melts the moment it meets your tongue.
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Egypt grows more dates than any other country: around 1.8 million tonnes a year. Our chocolate-covered dates are a very local kind of sweet.
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The first chocolate advent calendars appeared in 1958. Sixty-eight years later, we finally took the sugar out.
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Reindeer are the only deer whose females grow antlers too. The males usually drop theirs in early winter, so a sleigh team with antlers on Christmas Eve is most likely all female.
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One door left after this one. Light a candle, put the music on, and save tomorrow’s chocolate for Christmas Eve breakfast.
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Today’s chocolate is for someone else. Fold it into a note for a colleague, a neighbour or the person who always holds the lift. Sugar-free makes it an easy yes.
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Dresden’s Striezelmarkt began as a one-day market in 1434 and has run ever since. The little town on our box, ferris wheel and carousel included, would fit right in.
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When Napoleon’s blockade made cocoa scarce, the story goes, Turin’s chocolatiers stretched it with local hazelnuts and created gianduja. Necessity, meet dessert.
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The pistachio-kunafa chocolate craze started in Dubai, with a British-Egyptian chocolatier. Ours is the Cairo answer, with 0 g added sugar.
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In 1908 a Munich printer, Gerhard Lang, turned a childhood memory into a product. His mother used to fix 24 little treats to a board for him, so he printed the first advent calendar.
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In 1843 Henry Cole was too busy to write all his Christmas letters, so he asked an artist friend to design a printed card instead. About a thousand were printed, and a tradition began.
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Open today’s door with your first coffee. Let the chocolate rest on your tongue for ten seconds before you bite. The flavour arrives in waves.
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Twenty-four doors, 0 g added sugar and a whole month of little joys. Merry Christmas and a sweet New Year from all of us at Grazel.
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Lights in the windows, music in the kitchen and everyone home at once. There’s a reason they call it the best time of the year.
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Pick a Christmas film, dim the lights, and save today’s door for the moment the snow starts falling on screen.
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Store the calendar somewhere cool and dark, away from the sun and the heater. Chocolate dislikes sudden temperature changes, so let it settle at room temperature before you open a door.
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We sweeten with monk fruit, or luo han guo, named after Buddhist monks. It’s a small melon from the mountains of southern China, around 250 times sweeter than sugar, so a little goes a long way.
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Matcha bushes are shaded for weeks before harvest. That builds L-theanine, the amino acid behind matcha’s calm, savoury depth.
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The ferris wheel is at the top: thirteen doors open, eleven to go. A good day to plan the Christmas table, or to trade today’s chocolate with someone at home.
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Three sleeps left. Our 35 g Christmas-edition bars fit neatly into a stocking, or beside a morning coffee.
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Light a candle tonight, put the kettle on and open today’s door slowly. Half the joy of December is in the waiting.
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A pinch of salt dials down bitterness, so chocolate tastes rounder and sweeter. It’s the whole idea behind our Sea Salt & Almonds bar.
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Good chocolate breaks with a clean snap. That’s tempering: cocoa butter set in its most stable crystal, the one chocolatiers call Form V.
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Menthol from peppermint switches on TRPM8, the same receptor your mouth uses to sense cold. You feel a chill that isn’t really there.
Doors you open stay open on this device.
Limited editionA Christmas town with 24 windows.
Look closely: a ferris wheel, a carousel, a tree in the square and reindeer on the rooftops, all in red and gold. Every window is a door, and every door hides a chocolate.
It’s a decoration on the shelf until Christmas Eve, and a countdown everyone in the house will want a turn at.
Three dates, one joyful December.
The most wonderful time of the year, at a glance: lights, music, family and something sweet every morning. Counting down live.
- 1December
The first door
The countdown to the best time of the year starts here. One door, one chocolate, every morning until Christmas Eve.
- 25December
Christmas Day
Lights on, music up, everyone around the table. By now the calendar is empty and the whole house smells like Christmas.
- 31December
New Year’s Eve
End the year on a sweet note, with 0 g added sugar. Here’s to more joy, and more chocolate, in the next one.
Christmas, sweet by nature.
Made in Cairo, in limited quantities, for the people you’d share the last chocolate with.
Nº01Better shared 
Nº02A Christmas town of 24 doors 
Nº03Count the days, skip the sugar
Christmas editionLittle bars, big Christmas energy.
Twilight Milk is our Christmas-edition bar: milk chocolate with a velvety chocolate filling, 0 g added sugar. Small enough for a stocking, good enough to keep for yourself.
- 0 g added sugar, sweetened with monk fruit
- 35 g filled bar, gluten-free
- Ships with the calendar in one delivery
Before you count down
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What’s inside the calendar?
24 sugar-free milk chocolates, one behind each door, sweetened with monk fruit: 0 g added sugar. It contains milk; check the box for the full ingredients and allergens.
When should I start?
On 1 December, one door a day until 24 December. If it arrives early, it makes a very good-looking shelf decoration until then.
Will it arrive in time?
We deliver across Cairo and Giza in 1–3 working days, packed cold. To open door 1 on the 1st, order by the last week of November. It’s a limited edition, so earlier is safer.
Does it meet the minimum order?
Yes. The calendar is LE 1,150, so it clears the LE 500 minimum on its own. Delivery is LE 100.
Is it good for the whole family?
It’s milk chocolate with no added sugar, so it’s a popular pick for families. As with any chocolate, one door a day is the rule.
How should I store it?
Somewhere cool and dark, away from sunlight and heaters. Let it settle at room temperature before you open a door, for the best melt.
Twenty-four doors won’t open themselves.
Order by the last week of November to open door 1 on the 1st.