GÁTTAÞEFUR - MILK CHOCOLATE WITH ANISE

A creamy 40% milk chocolate with a hint of anise — that warm, sweet, faintly liquorice-like note from anise seed — running through it. Gentle rather than medicinal; the chocolate stays in charge, the anise just makes you sniff the bar twice.

Gáttaþefur ("Doorway-Sniffer") is the eleventh Yule Lad, arriving on the night of 22 December. His enormous nose can smell fresh baking from miles away, so he goes door to door sniffing out laufabrauð — the thin, crisp, cut-patterned "leaf bread" Icelanders make for Christmas. A scented chocolate seemed only fair. Made in Iceland by Kandís, who use only fine-flavour cacao — here from South America.

Good to know: 70 g bar · milk chocolate 40% with anise · milk chocolate, so contains milk; no full allergen list on our page — always check the wrapper · keep cool; in summer we pack chocolate against the heat.

How people buy it: as a set of thirteen for the December countdown, tucked into a Christmas gift box, or sent to Icelanders abroad who grew up with the Yule Lads.

Ships from our family warehouse in Hafnarfjörður · free shipping over $149 to the US, Canada & Europe.