6 Fancy Local Candy Bars That Are Way Better Than Snickers
By Chicagoist_Guest in Food on Oct 20, 2015 7:02PM
With Halloween right around the corner, it’s all too tempting to grab the closest cheap candy and cram it into your mouth. Instead of going for grocery store mainstays, check out one of the chocolate bars Chicago serves in a neighborhood near you. It'll be a bit more expensive than the half-chocolate, half vegetable oil junk that you see in the candy aisle, but it's definitely worth it.
By Elizabeth Atkinson
Black Splash bar by West Town Bakery and Dark Matter Coffee. Photo by Elizabeth Atkinson.
Black Splash Bar by West Town Bakery and Dark Matter Coffee
A collaboration between the two companies, the chocolate bar comes in three varieties-41 percent milk chocolate, 35 percent milk chocolate and 64 percent dark chocolate. Whichever variety of chocolate is your poison, they are all folded in with barrel aged coffee from Dark Matter, which is as delicious as it sounds.
$4.50. 1916 W. Chicago Ave. and 738 N. Western Ave.
Fructose Chocolate Bars by Teuscher Chicago
This Switzerland-based chocolatier has a few separate lines of chocolate bars, but one in particular uses fructose instead of sugar to enhance the natural flavors of chocolate. $8. 900 N. Michigan Ave.
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Chocolate bars by The Fudge Pot
The Old Town staple makes chocolate daily, including a selection of chocolate bars that range from solid milk and dark chocolates to almond bark and chocolate cashew. Their selection changes daily, but you can be sure to find something that’ll satiate your sweet tooth. $3. 1532 N. Wells St.
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Anything From the Wall of Bars at Cocoa and Co.
With nearly 175 chocolate bars to choose from, you can pick chocolate from all over the world or you can get chocolate made by our neighbors in Spooner, WI, Mayana Chocolates.
1651 N. Wells St.
OMG Candy Bar by Amy’s Candy Bar
Filled with sea salt caramel, hazelnut praline and milk chocolate ganache, this chocolate bar has the combination to make your jaw drop. If that’s not enough, the bar is also dipped in Belgian dark chocolate. It is entirely deserving of its name.
$4.75. 4704 N. Damen Ave.
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S’mores by Veruca Chocolates
They’re just like the ones from your childhood, but with better chocolate and less mess. With chocolatier Heather Johnston’s house-made marshmallow, dark chocolate ganache and graham cracker wrapped with a dark chocolate shell, they’ll leave you wanting s’more. They also keep seasonal flavors in stock, just in case the signature dark chocolate wasn’t enough. $12. 2409 N. Western Ave.