Fill your bag with locally made treats
NECCO | The Sky Bar ($1)
Remember when NECCO, the Revere-based candy company introduced their Sky Bars in the sky? Ok, unless you were alive in 1938, you probably missed pilots writing about the first-ever multiple flavored candy bar next to puffs of snowy clouds and stupid pigeons. It’s time to catch up on your local history kiddo. Indulge in the brilliant design of caramel, peanut, vanilla, and fudge wrapped in one bar of milk chocolate. [@NeccoWafers. neccostore.com]
HARBOR SWEETS | Sweet Sloop ($10, 10-piece bag)
Could the Sweet Sloop get any more New England or … delicious? It’s a sailboat-shaped almond butter crunch with a white chocolate mainsail and jib, dipped in dark chocolate pecans. Yeah, I hear George Harrison singing “My Sweet Lord,” in the background now too. Pick the lighthouse box for double quadruple the kitsch. [85 Leavitt St., Salem. @HarborSweets. harborsweets.com]
L.A. BURDICK | Chocolate Ghosts ($3.75/each)
Can’t find any spirit for the obligatory Halloween party your friend’s throwing? Got it covered. In chocolate. Stop into L.A. Burdick and pick up some handmade white chocolate ghosts ($3.75/each). Feeling extravagant? Pick up a Chocolate Coffin ($24)—three white chocolate ghosts, surrounded by assorted milk chocolate bonbons. There are also chocolate mice ($3.25/each) to buy and hold out in your palm when the frenemy with a chronic fear of furry things drinks all of your bourbon … or you can just eat them. [52 Brattle St. Harvard Sq., Cambridge. @BurdickChocolat. burdickchocolate.com]
SERENADE CHOCOLATIER | Blood Orange Truffles ($16/box)
Blended with blood oranges, the dark chocolate truffle leaves an after-taste of citrus and cinnamon and autumn, pretty much, in your mouth. Take a second to look around at what else Serenade has to offer: Strawberry Balsamic Cream, Cranberry Pecan, Almond Crunch, Dulce De Leche, CARAMEL APPLE TRUFFLE?! OK. Breathe. Yes, they’re all made with natural ingredients in an open kitchen. Yes there is chocolate for you here vegan-bicyclist! And yes, all of the chocolate is gluten-free my gluten-avenger friend! [5 Harvard Sq., Brookline. @serenadechoc. serenadechocolatier.com]
LULU’S SWEET SHOPPE | Nutella Cupcake ($2.75)
Put down that spoon! I know you didn’t have dinner yet, but, if you’re going to eat Nutella tonight, you might as well get it in a fresh, made-from-scratch cupcake from the culinary-why-don’t-you-live-in-my-pantry-know-how of Lulu’s Sweet Shoppe in the North End. Pick up some Pop Rocks, and a good ol’ mouth watering Sugar Daddy, or a pack of candy cigs for the long trek-through-the-tourists-don’t-you-see-me-look-pensively-Bostonian-walk home. [57 Salem St., Boston. @LuluSweetShoppe. luluboston.com]
TAZA CHOCOLATE | Cinnamon Chocolate Mexicano ($4.50)
No, you don’t have to get that doorbell. Yes, you can eat all the Taza’s stone-ground Cinnamon Chocolate discs like they’re communal wafers of the gods and not feel guilty about it. Stuff your face with these and you won’t just be filling that dead-dog shaped hole in your heart, but supporting a local Somerville business that works directly with certified organic cacao farms in the Dominican Republic. C’mon, have another disc! [561 Windsor St., Somerville. @TazaChocolate. tazachocolate.com].
HIDDEN SWEETS
A local Harvard hot-spot since 1989, Hidden Sweets, owned by previous gift store connoisseurs will offer you all of the jelly beans … or at least most of them, as well as a gourmet selection of chocolate (Lindt, Ghirardelli, Lake Champlain), retro candy, Van Gogh action figures and other delightful trinkets to bring home as gifts for the little-feet-kicking hearts in all of us. [25 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. hiddensweets.com]
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