Lake Champlain Chocolates Blog

He's here! The Lake Champlain Chocolates Easter Bunny is making his rounds outside our Pine Street retail location. In sunshine, rain or snow (because in April in Vermont, all three can happen in one afternoon), the Easter Bunny tirelessly waves at passers-by and offers high fives to anyone who is willing.  We all look forward to the day when the Easter Bunny finally makes his grand appearance.  

Easter is a really fun time at Lake Champlain Chocolates. We have tons of cute and delicious chocolate bunnies turning up all over the place, our spring chocolate flowers are starting to sprout up along side our chocolate carrots, creating an irresistible garden of all-natural chocolate confections. To celebrate the holiday, Emily Watson and Kirk Weed, Lake Champlain Chocolates’ resident chocolate sculptors, have also handcrafted some beautiful Easter themed pieces, featuring exquisitely painted chocolate eggs.

Emily created this wonderful Chocolates of Vermont sculpture as well. Each of the four flavors celebrate a different season in Vermont, with Easter marking the beginning of Honey Caramel season!  Locally harvested honey paired with creamy caramel and dark chocolate- can you think of a better way to start Spring?

So if you’re in the neighborhood, why not hop on in and check out all the wonderful chocolates on display.

I may have just found my latest crush – our Coconut Delight Egg. It’s new for Easter and we just got them out on the shelves so of course, we had to smash one open and try it. Perfect timing as I needed a little sugar rush to get me through the rest of my afternoon and I really wasn’t sold on anything. That is, until someone told me they were smashing open one of the new chocolate Easter eggs.

So, let me tell you about it. It’s 2.6 ounces of creamy coconut filling and dark chocolate “shell” and it’s wrapped in this springy, emerald green foil with a big pink ribbon. I almost felt bad about it getting broken open – almost! But once it was, there was all that sweet coconutty filling with real coconut and coconut milk and all sorts of tasty goodness. And there was enough there for us to share with each other even though I might have been able to eat an entire one myself, it was that good! And that's today’s sweet spot.

 Incidentally, if you're not as big of a coconut fan as I am, we also have a peanut butter egg with milk chocolate which also sounds yummy but that’ll have to wait until tomorrow. Maybe.