Holiday cream puffs from Beta5 Chocolate. Photo: Beta5 Chocolates
Indulge in a sweet treat this holiday season. Vancouver’s bakeries and chocolate shops have whipped up tons of festive creations.
Yule Logs and Chocolate Treats from Mon Paris Patisserie
Pastry chef Elena Krasnova of Mon Paris Patisserie has created some unique yule logs to celebrate the season. Choose from flavours like raspberry chocolate, blissful black forest, and caramel pecan coffee. Chocolate lovers won’t want to miss her chocolate boxes and decadent hand-painted chocolate ornaments.
Photo: Mon Paris Patisserie
Holiday Pies from The Pie Hole
Get into the festive spirit with a seasonal pie. The Pie Hole serves up fun flavours like eggnog and rum, gingerbread cream, and apple cranberry. They have classics like butter pecan and apple, with the latter available in a vegan version too. If you can’t decide, order their box of nine assorted mini pies.
Photo via The Pie Hole
Reindeer Marshmallows from Bjornbar Bakery
Bjornbar Bakery is known for its signature gourmet dessert bars – they make over 30 varieties! Their holiday menu includes candy cane bars, gingerbread bars, and eggnog bars. They also have adorable reindeer-shaped marshmallows.
Photo: Bjornbar Bakery
Festive Doughnuts from Lucky’s Doughnuts
Lucky’s has decked out their doughnuts in holiday flare. Seasonal offerings include gingerbread old fashioned, peppermint old fashioned, Grinch ring, eggnog snowball bismarck, chestnut creme brulee, and lots more.
Photo: Lucky’s Doughnuts
Buche de Noel from Chez Christophe
Pre-order one of these delectable treats from Chez Christophe, then pick them up on December 23 or 24, just in time for Christmas. This year’s flavours include “Red Velvet”, “Pear Rocher”, “Oh Deer”, and “La Chocolatee”.
Photo: Chez Christopher/Leila Kwok
Nutcracker Bonbons from Beaucoup Bakery
Grab a box of incredible holiday bonbons from Beaucoup Bakery. Each box contains a mix of two limited-edition holiday flavours: pistachio praline with saffron vanilla ganache and pecan praline with espresso ganache.
Photo: Beaucoup Bakery
Chocolate Bark Pack from Cadeaux Bakery
Pick up a box of decadent chocolate bark from Cadeaux Bakery. It includes three mouth-watering holiday flavours: white chocolate pretzel candy cane, milk chocolate toffee pretzel, and dark chocolate salted almond.
Photo: Cadeaux Bakery
Holiday Cream Puffs from Beta 5 Chocolates
These limited edition packs of seasonal cream puffs from Beta 5 Chocolates are perfect for the holidays. Choose from nine different flavours including gingerbread, mango milk tea and Vietnamese coffee.
Gingerbread Cream Puff. Photo: Beta5 Chocolates.
Gingerviduals from terrabreads
Terrabreads has cooked up some adorable gingerbread people (known as “Gingerviduals”) to celebrate the season. They also have lots of other holiday favourites including cashew spiced shortbread, pecan fruit loaf, and chocolate cherry panettone cakes.
Photo: terrabreads
Truffle Trees from Thomas Haas
Thomas Haas has lots of different chocolate options for the holidays. But for something a little different, pick up one of their truffle trees. These decadent confections include handmade truffles arranged to form a fun holiday tree.
Photo: Thomas Haas
Christmas Cookie Boxes from Gabi and Jules
Pre-order a box of scrumptious Christmas cookies from Gabi and Jules. The boxes include seasonal flavours like chocolate-dipped gingerbread in reindeer and snowman shapes, classic shortbread, ginger molasses cookies, and their signature Grinch bites.
Photo: Gabi and Jules
Snowman Brioche from Fauborg Bakery
Pick up an adorable snowman brioche from Fauborg Bakery, made with soft and buttery brioche dough. They also have beautifully decorated yule logs.
Photo: Fauborg Bakery
