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No tricks, just treats.
This year, Halloween, like literally everything else, will look a little different. While we did get the go-ahead on trick-or-treating, if it’s done socially-distanced and in your local neighbourhood, it’s also recommended that we stay curled up in our households, celebrating with low-key traditions and our favourite scary movies.
I’m thinking that this is all the more reason to indulge in more than the Costco-sized assorted chocolate bars (although I love a good Coffee Crisp). Here are some seasonal features from across the West to satisfy those cravings.
For an at-home hot cocoa, East Van Roasters mixed stone-ground Ecuadorian chocolate with charcoala spooky twist for the health-conscious ghouls in your households. The brew is paired with house-made strawberry marshmallows to top. If you’re feeling more snack-y, there’s also candied corn nuts slathered in 70% Peruvian dark chocolate and honey nib caramels.
Price: from $9 to $20 More info: eastvanroasters.com
Pretty Sweet has sugar cookies screen-printed with all of our favourite spooky movies and TV series. There’s Tim Burton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Hocus Pocus all in sets of six to snack on while we watch those Halloween television features.
Price: $20 for sixMore info: prettysweetco.com
Made with Cacao Barry chocolate, Mon Paris milk chocolate jack-o-lantern lollies are filled with pumpkin spice caramelbecause is it actually fall if we don’t have pumpkin-spiced everything? There’s also the jack-o-lantern statue paired with a signature caramel truffle. Or indulge in all of the chocolate carvings as a full set.
Price: from $4 to $35More info: monparis.ca
Crave’s Halloween features include festive cupcakes and a speciality ghost cake that would make a ghoulish holiday centrepiece. There’s also decorating kits available, so you can frost your own cupcakes to your liking with buttercream and Halloween-themed sprinkles.
Price: from $3 to $65More info: cravecupcakes.ca
Beta5’s Halloween features this year include many candy bars, in flavours like peanut butter crunch, cashew, pop rocks and milk tea. There’s also the monster mash cream puff pack, which seems like it would be, I don’t know, a graveyard smash.
Price: from $1.75 to $35More info: shop.beta5chocolates.com
Is anything scarier than the price we’re willing to pay for avocado toast? This year, Chez Christophe’s Halloween collection includes “Franc”, a dark chocolate avocado-shaped Frankenstein with white chocolate eyes. Pair Franc with the chocolate cyclops showpiece, or, if you’re searching for something more conventional, there’s also ghost and skull-shaped chocolate lollipops.
Price: from $2.45 to $25More info: chez-christophe.com
8Cakes special offerings for Halloween include a cake-meets-lollipop combo in a variety of flavours like pumpkin spice and strawberry. There’s a couple of vegan options (biscoff and Oreo) for any plant-based tricksters in your household.
Price: from $24More info: 8cakes.com
Thomas Haas’ seasonal collection includes an elaborate chocolate scarecrow placed in a mini pumpkin patch (that’s also all chocolate). It looks almost too good to eat. Almost.
Price: $39More info: thomashaas.com
For the season, Pâtisserie Daniel is featuring these creepy eyeball rum balls for a spooky and boozy treat to celebrate with.
More info: patisseriedaniel.com
Rocky Mtn. Chocolate’s ample Halloween features this year include novelty chocolates (like their #NOBRAINER hollow sweets-filled chocolate pumpkin and this 7oz milk chocolate mummydefinitely spooky, but also kinda cute?). There’s also classic sticky caramel apples and plenty of themed milk chocolate balls and bars, so there’s lots to go around.
Price: from $6.50 to $135More info: rockychoc.com
View this post on Instagram We have these spooky cute cookies & lots of other tasty treats in store today! We’ll be open 11-6. . . . #sugarcookies #decoratedcookies #instacookies #cookieart #cookiedecorating #halloween #halloweencookies #cookieart #yegcookies #yegbakery #yegbaker #yegdesserts #yeg #edmonton #milkandcookies #milkandcookiesbakeshop A post shared by Milk & Cookies Bakeshop (@milkandcookiesbakeshop) on Oct 22, 2020 at 6:17am PDT
We have these spooky cute cookies & lots of other tasty treats in store today! We’ll be open 11-6. . . . #sugarcookies #decoratedcookies #instacookies #cookieart #cookiedecorating #halloween #halloweencookies #cookieart #yegcookies #yegbakery #yegbaker #yegdesserts #yeg #edmonton #milkandcookies #milkandcookiesbakeshop
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Milk & Cookie Bakeshop is offering many spooky cookies, and a cookie-decorating kit too, for a festive stay-at-home activity for your family or chosen bubble. There’s also monster meringues and pumpkin-spice and strawberry-flavoured macarons.
Price: from $8 to $42More info: milkandcookiesbakeshop.ca
These Halloween offerings include milk and dark chocolate lollipops, bite-sized spooky-shaped chocolate frictures and oversized hollow chocolate pumpkins filled with mini chocolates, chocolate lollipops and caramelsthey truly are great pumpkins, Charlie Brown.
Price: from $9 to $60More info: temperpastry.com
The Panel Lemon Spider Cookie, a collaboration between two Coho Commissary members (Panela Lemon and Leavenly Goods) is a maple-and-vanilla base cookie dough mixed with crunch organic brown rice crisps. The centre is stuffed with a chewy pecan-spiced filling, and on top, a little spider in organic dark chocolate drizzle with candied eyes.
Price: $5.50More info: cohocommissary.com
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