I Tasted All 24 Limited-Edition Jars in the 2025 Bonne Maman Advent Calendar
The cult-favorite gift is back for another year.
Photo courtesy of Bonne Maman
There’s something intrinsically sweet about an advent calendar. Opening something up every day for 24 consecutive days is like enjoying an extended series of gifts. And there may be no advent calendar sweeter than the Bonne Maman Advent Calendar.
Bonne Maman — maker of preserves, jellies and other spreads packaged in gingham-lidded jars — is bringing back its super popular advent calendar for a ninth year.
I had a chance to open every little box in the calendar, pop open each jar, and taste each and every spread. It was glorious — and very sweet.
What does the 2025 Bonne Maman Advent Calendar look like?
This year’s calendar is a big gift box featuring a charming holiday design. The top and sides are illustrated with an outdoor snowscape featuring decorated Christmas trees, reindeers, gifts, toy soldiers, cheerful penguins, wrapped presents and Bonne Maman jars galore.
The box opens on two sides — like a double door — to reveal 24 adorable mini boxes, each prettily numbered in red and decorated with a different design in the same whimsical style as the large outer box.
When each small square box is removed from its slot, a holiday message is revealed: “Season’s Greetings,” “Make Spirits Bright,” “Spend Time With Loved Ones,” “Let It Snow” and the like — all written in that instantly recognizable Bonne Maman cursive.
Each of the boxes contains a little gingham-topped, tastefully labeled one-ounce jar of a different, limited-edition flavor of spread. “A gift within a gift,” the brand calls it.
Photo courtesy of Bonne Maman
What flavors are in the 2025 Bonne Maman Advent Calendar?
I don’t want to ruin the element of surprise here — because not knowing what’s inside each miniature box is arguably what’s most delightful about this advent calendar. But Bonne Maman has named Caramel Spread with Coffee (among my faves), Mango and Ginger Spread (funky — in a good way), Pear and Mandarin with Cinnamon Spread (not so much my thing) and Strawberry with Passion Fruit Spread (featuring a tasty tang) among the sweet treats you can look forward to.
To that I will add that when you get to the Fig-Cardamom, the Apple-Caramel-Cinnamon, the Wild Blueberry-Lychee-Rose and the Orange-Guava-Lime Spreads, you’re in for a serious treat each time.
The calendar offers something for lovers of every kind of fruit — often in combinations featuring unexpected flavors (with lavender? violet? Sichuan pepper?!) — and for honey and caramel fans to boot. And I won’t tell you, for the sake of maintaining the joy of discovery, what is awaiting you on day 24, but the final box is a decadent doozy.
Where can you buy the 2025 Bonne Maman Advent Calendar?
The calendar is currently available for $54.99 at BonneMaman.us. However, the brand warns, the cult-hit calendar is “bound to sell out.”
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