Custom Truffle Boxes

Getting the Cavity Tray Right

The tray is where most truffle packaging goes wrong. A cavity that is too wide lets the piece wobble and lose its dusting. Too tight and staff squash the truffle trying to seat it. We size each pocket from your actual product, so please measure several truffles from a normal batch, not your neatest one, and give us the widest diameter and the height.

Most hand-rolled truffles fall between 22 and 30 mm across. A pocket around 2 to 3 mm wider than the truffle, with a shallow depth of roughly two thirds of its height, holds it firmly while leaving the top visible. If you sell a mixed box with domes, squares and truffles together, tell us the shapes and we can set different pocket sizes in one tray.

Trays come in card with a printed or plain finish, or in a thin formed plastic in gold, black or clear. Card trays can be printed in your brand colour; formed trays give a glossier, traditional look and grip the pieces tightly. Food-contact grade board is available on request if your truffles sit directly in a card tray. We also make custom chocolate box inserts on their own if you already have outer boxes.

Print and Finish Ideas for Chocolate Boxes

Chocolate packaging tends to use deep colours, so the board and finish matter. A matt laminate on a dark brown or navy box gives a velvety feel and keeps fingerprints from showing. Gold or copper foil on the logo is a natural fit with cocoa tones and lifts a simple design without adding more ink.

Spot gloss can pick out an illustration, a pattern of cocoa pods or your brand mark against a matt background. Embossing works well on rigid lids where the customer will run a thumb over it. Inside the lid is valuable space: a printed flavour key showing which truffle sits in which pocket saves the customer guessing and reduces the number of half-bitten pieces left in the box. Our guide to foil, emboss and lamination shows which finishes suit a dark chocolate box.

Storing and Displaying Boxed Truffles

Chocolate is sensitive to warmth and strong smells, and the box plays a part in keeping it at its best between packing and sale. A close-fitting lid limits air movement around the pieces, and a glassine sheet over the tray stops cocoa dusting transferring to the underside of the lid. If your shop has a sunny window, keep display boxes towards the back and use a dummy box filled with card for the window itself.

For counters, stacking rigid boxes two or three high in a staggered pyramid shows the lids off and lets customers pick one up without toppling the rest. Folding cartons can be supplied with a hang tab or a small easel back so a taster pack can stand upright beside the till. If you stock several flavours, a coloured band or sticker on the side of each box helps staff find the right one quickly when the shelf is busy, and saves opening boxes to check what is inside. For a seasonal counter display, heart shaped chocolate boxes stand out next to square collections.

Sizing a Truffle Box Around Your Count

Start with how many truffles you want in each box, then work outwards. A 3 by 3 grid of 26 mm truffles needs an inner tray of roughly 100 by 100 mm once you allow for walls between pockets. A 4 by 4 grid takes around 130 by 130 mm, and a long box of 2 by 6 makes a slim, elegant gift at about 70 by 190 mm.

Depth is usually 30 to 40 mm, enough for the truffle, the tray and a sheet of glassine paper on top. If you want a ribbon to sit flat across the lid or a gift card tucked inside, add a few millimetres. We can draw up a dieline for you to check against real truffles before you commit. Our guide to measuring your product for a box explains how to allow for wrappers and paper cups.

Ordering for Chocolatiers and Gift Shops

Send us the number of truffles per box, their size, the style you like and an idea of quantity. A custom quote comes back by email within one working day, and minimums are kept low and quoted per job, so a small chocolatier can order a first run without tying up a lot of money in stock.

Every order starts with a free design proof. Once you approve it, production takes 4 to 7 working days and tracked delivery to the UK mainland is free, usually arriving in 2 to 3 working days. If boxes arrive misprinted or damaged, report it within 10 days and we will reprint or refund. Prices start from £0.25 a unit on simpler folding styles, with rigid boxes quoted on size and finish.

A useful tip if you sell several collection sizes: keep the same lid artwork across all of them and change only the count or flavour name. One design file then covers the whole range, and customers recognise your boxes on the shelf whichever size they pick up.