Chocolate Santa gold – 125g

Gold chocolate Santa Claus by Fesey chocolate figures under the tree

The gold chocolate Santa Claus by Fesey chocolate figures is a 125-gram hollow figure in a rich brass gold with a distinct shine. It stands upright on the hem of its coat and captures every candle flame in the room, reflecting it back through the folds of its robes.

Gold chocolate Santa Claus is the larger of the two golden versions from Fesey chocolate figures, cast from milk chocolate with at least 37 percent cocoa content and wrapped by hand in metal foil in Riemerling near Munich. The beard, hood, and sack are defined solely by the embossing from the mold.

For narrow spaces on a windowsill, the 70-gram golden Santa Claus remains the lighter choice. This version belongs under the tree, where everyone looks on Christmas Eve anyway. Placing it next to the manger on the morning of the twenty-fourth means the table is already half-decorated.

Gold is the classic organizing color for the Christmas tree

Gold has always tied together ornaments, tinsel, and candle holders, and a golden figure underneath blends in quietly instead of creating a second color scheme. Next to white plates and dark wood, it appears festive without veering into kitsch. The brass gold is rich and warm, further from a pale champagne tone than its shelf neighbors might suggest.

The foil is smoothed out yet full of small creases, as is inevitable with hand-wrapping. These very creases refract the light, making the tone look lively rather than lacquered like a Christmas bauble. The beard and hood are embossed deeply enough to be recognizable from two meters away.

Mild milk chocolate with a soft melt

The chocolate underneath reveals the light milky tone that children enjoy and adults appreciate late in the evening as well. A broken-off piece melts in your mouth long before you have even properly chewed. It remains milky and calmly sweet until the last bite, with no bitter edges ever appearing.

This mildness pairs just as well with hot punch in the afternoon as it does with the final coffee of the evening. The hood breaks off first, and everything else is shared among the group. After the meal, the figure moves to the center of the table and rarely makes it back. Store the figure in a cool place until then, and its shine will look exactly the same on Christmas Eve as it does today.

Why the surface shines so much

Before casting, the chocolate mass is tempered—cooled while stirred and then slightly reheated—until the cocoa butter is in the correct crystal form. Only then is it poured into the mold, and only then will the surface remain reflective after setting. The effort is in the temperature, not the recipe, and it determines both the shine and the snap.

Without this step, the figure would develop gray streaks and have a soft, matte break. The same thing happens later on the shelf if it gets too warm and the cocoa butter migrates again. A cool, dark place therefore preserves the shine until the holidays, whereas a windowsill above a radiator does not.

You can find all Fesey chocolate figures here, from the small St. Nicholas to the Easter lamb. In addition, we offer other chocolate figures for the cold months and suitable small gifts.