20 places to find Easter treats in Vancouver

Easter and the chocoholic excess that comes with it is almost here, so time to start thinking of delicious and inventive sweet treats for giving to loved ones.

With dozens of locally-based chocolatiers, bakeries, and candy stores offering a range of tantalizing confections, we’ve rounded up the most delicious Easter-themed treats available in Vancouver this year.

So hop to it, load up your Easter basket with some delectable goodies that both grown-ups and kids will love.

Thomas Haas

Thomas Haas has outdone themselves this year, having crafted a seemingly never-ending list of Easter creations. The 2016 collection includes Easter Truffle Eggs, available in dark chocolate ganache with lavender, milk chocolate ganache with passion fruit, and white chocolate infused with tangerine and lime flavours; an Easter Nest, featuring an assortment of chocolate eggs and an adorable mini bunny nestled in a handcrafted chocolate nest; a Truffle Egg Box containing six assorted chocolate truffle eggs in a clear box tied with a ribbon; a Traditional Easter Bunny fashioned from milk, dark or white chocolate; and beautifully handcrafted chocolate boxes filled with an assortment of Easter truffles.

Address: 2539 West Broadway Avenue, Kitsilano
Phone: 604-736-1848

Address: Unit 128, 998 Harbourside Drive, North Vancouver
Phone: 604-924-1847

Twitter: @thaaschocolates

Chez Christophe

Chez Christophe’s 2016 Easter chocolate egg collection includes Eggmont the Mountie (complete with its very own iconic Mountie hat); the new Le Petit Poussin, which features a little chick cracking out from its egg shell; Hop Hop the Bunny, last year’s fan favourite Poulette; and the Caved Egg-Within-An-Egg. All Easter chocolate eggs contain a variety of Chez Christophe’s exclusive bonbons inside. Prices start from $19.95 for a small to $49.95 for a large.

Address: 4712 Hastings Street, Burnaby
Phone: 604-428-4200.
Twitter: @Chez_Christophe

Thierry Chocolates

Chef Thierry will be creating a variety of chocolate sculptures for Easter, including a chocolate-filled Easter egg made with 70% Guanaja chocolate by Valhrona. The chocolate sculptures will be available from Good Friday through to Easter Sunday.

Address: 1059 Alberni Street
Phone: 604-608-6870
Twitter: @thierrychocolat

Bel Café

Bel Café will be ringing in Easter with seasonal delights from Pastry Chef extraordinaire Wayne Kozinko. The hotel bakery will have hot cross buns available from March 14 through to 27, in addition to entremets made with white chocolate, Chantilly crème, coconut, ginger, and yuzu, which can be purchased in store from March 21 through to 27. 

Address: 801 West Georgia Street
Phone: 604-673-7000
Twitter: @Bel_Cafe

Giovane Café

Hop on over to Giovane Café and grab an adorable and limited-time-only sugar bunny ($4.75 each), available from March 21 through to 28. For six bunnies or more, the café is taking pre-orders. Place an order in person or call 604-695-5557.

Address: 1038 Canada Place
Phone: 604-695-5300
Twitter: @GiovaneCafe

Cadeaux Bakery

For Easter, Powell Street’s Cadeaux Bakery will offer a range of hand-decorated spring-inspired sugar cookies, chocolate and vanilla cupcakes (topped with flowers and birds nests), and a cake feature. Boasting a vanilla base, strawberry compote, and white chocolate mousse Cadeaux’s feature cake will be finished in a vanilla butter cream and topped with a hand-painted stained glass image of a bunny. The bakery will have a few cakes in stock but highly recommends pre-ordering. The shopfront will be closed good Friday but will be open Saturday and Easter Sunday.

Address: 172 Powell Street
Phone: 604-608-8889
Twitter: @cadeauxbakery

Butter Baked Goods

This neighbourhood bakery is celebrating the holiday with Easter bunny-shaped and decorated sugar cookies. Also available are vanilla, raspberry, and pistachio flavoured Easter Egg Macarons; raspberry white chocolate Easter Egg Wagon Wheels; an adorable Baby Chick Cookie, which comes in a bag with a small sheep and small bunny; and the bakehouse’s classic hot cross buns.

Address: 4907 Mackenzie Street
Phone: 604-221-4333
Twitter: @butterbakedcafe

Temper Pastry

West Vancouver’s Temper Pastry has quite the collection of treats on offer this Easter. Edible creations include chocolate bunnies; dark, milk, and white choc eggs; an Egg Carton with assorted bonbons; a dark chocolate Easter Puzzle; Vanilla Marshmallow Eggs; Peanut Butter Eggs; and lollipops.

Address: 2409 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
Phone: 604-281-1152
Twitter: @Temperpastry

Karameller Candy

Get your candy fix this Easter with Karameller’s loaded seasonal candy jars. The Mainland Street shopfront will be offering small jars ($10) and large jars ($15) filled with pastel-coloured treats. As always, Karameller Candy is free from GMOs, trans fats, and high-fructose corn syrup.

Address: 30-1020 Mainland Street
Phone: 604-639-8325
Twitter: @karamellercandy

Mink Chocolates

Cocoa specialist Mink Chocolates will once again be offering handmade flop eared bunnies for Easter. Available in dark and milk chocolate, these precious creations are sure to be well-received by adults and kids alike.

Address: 863 West Hastings Street
Phone: 604-633-2451
Twitter: @minkchocolates

Soirette

Soirette will be welcoming spring with a wonderful assortment of treats for Easter. Offerings will include new seasonal macaron flavours, including Cherry Blossom and White Peach. Easter-inspired goodies include adorable Bunny (matcha white chocolate) and Chic (milk chocolate) Macaron Pops. Specially-crafted Chocolate Easter Eggs come in colourful foil wrappers in three different flavours: chocolate peanut butter with a caramel centre, white chocolate pistachio with a pistachio cream centre, and milk chocolate hazelnut with a hazelnut cream centre.

Address: 1433 West Pender Street
Phone Number: 604-558 3308
Twitter: @SoiretteMacaron

BETA5

Chocolate lovers will want to get their hands on BETA5’s decadent and cute Easter creations. There are praline eggs, peanut butter eggs, and handcrafted Hip Hoppin’ Bunnies (composed of layered white, blonde, milk, and dark chocolate). Each bunny is unique and is cast in either the chocolatier’s 46% milk or 66% dark Valrhona chocolate, which are custom blends made exclusively for BETA5.

Address: 413 Industrial Ave
Phone: 604-669-3336
Twitter: @beta5chocolates

Faubourg Paris

Faubourg Paris, Vancouver’s trio of elegant boulangeries-pâtisseries is a go-to place for unique Easter treats. From the adorable Bunny Macaron that is sure to delight the little ones, to the sophisticated Easter pastry that makes for the perfect gift for Easter brunch or dinner hosts, Ricardo Rosas, the head pastry chef at Faubourg crafted the most delicious Easter treats.

Address: Locations in Downtown, Kerrisdale, and West Vancouver (check website for details)
Twitter: @FaubourgBakery

Gem Chocolates

Located in Kerrisdale, this chocolatier is offering some eye-popping edible masterpieces this Easter. The shop’s handmade Peek-a-Boo Chocolate Eggs are filled with chocolate caramel truffle and are available in dark, milk, and white chocolate. There’s also a vegan option. Semi-solid Easter bunnies and chicks decorated by hand are also up for grabs.

Address: 2029 West 41st Avenue, Kerrisdale
Phone: 604-263-9878
Twitter: @gemchocolates

French Made Baking

This year French Made Baking is crafting a macaron sculpture with an Easter theme. The base “nest” is a large macaron filled with raspberries and vanilla cream and perched on top are an adorable bunny (with a caramel milk chocolate filling) and a chick macaron (lemon) duo, along with colorful macarons of assorted sizes and flavours. Orders must be placed by March 20 for pick up on March 25, 26, or 27.

Address: 81 Kingsway, Mount Pleasant
Phone: 604-558- 4880
Twitter: @FrMadeBaking

Chocolate Arts

A Blublulemon Egg (organic blueberry compote with house-made lemon marshmallow and chocolate cookie), Caramel Cashew Egg (house-roasted cashews, organic pretzels, and a deep caramel in a dark chocolate shell), and Big Birdy–a dark chocolate figurine filled with two mini eggs and two mini bunnies, are among the treats on offer at Chocolate Arts this Easter.

Address: 1620 West 3rd Avenue, Fairview
Phone: 604-739-0475
Twitter: @ChocArts

Purdys Chocolatier

Purdys has been proudly supplying the Easter bunny with scrumptious chocolates since 1907. Stock your Easter baskets high with the chocolatier’s traditional foiled chocolate eggs, Truffle Eggs, Petite Pastels, Easter Peanut Butter Fingers, and a variety of chocolate bunnies.

Address: Various locations
Twitter: @PurdysChocolate

Ganache Patisserie

Ganache Pâtisserie, the Yaletown bakehouse specializing in French-inspired hand-crafted desserts will offer a selection of chocolate bunnies, chickens, and ducks, in addition to mixed boxes of Easter eggs this Easter holiday season. All Easter-inspired goodies are made with Cacao Barry milk or dark chocolate couverture and range in price from $5.95 to $11.95 each.

Address: 1262 Homer Street
Phone: 604-899-1098
Twitter: @ganacheyaletown

Cakes by Anjan

This Easter local baker Anjan Kaur, who operates Cakes by Anjan, is offering an adorable sugar cookie creation set. Decorated with royal icing these colourful and moreish cookies are priced at $12.50 per box.

Twitter: @CakesByAnjan
Instagram: @cakesbyanjan
Email: cakesbyanjan@yahoo.ca

Gourmand Macaron

Specializing in handmade French macarons, Gourmand Macaron will be celebrating Easter with baby chick macarons, which are filled with milk chocolate ganache. The following locations will be carrying these adorable and delectable treats: East Village Bakery, La Petite Cuillere, Neverland Tea Salon, La Cuisson Café, and Meinhardt‘s South Granville location.

Twitter: @GourmandMacaron