The best local Easter chocolates
The egg hunt is coming and you want to impress your favorite sweet tooth? Here are six suggestions for local chocolate shops or gourmet shops where you can find Easter chocolate that is as beautiful as it is delicious.
Ernestine
The pastel chocolate factory of the Plateau transmits its color in its chocolate delicacies. For Easter, she is offering a colorful Gourmet Egg (which contains chocolate bunnies), a Surprise Egg (which contains small chocolate eggs) and the novelty of the year: Ernestine's Chicken, a box of three chocolate chickens of a creamy hazelnut praline. These choices are available in dark chocolate or milk chocolate.
Courtesy of Ernestine, Photo credits: Aurore Chollet
Courtesy of Ernestine, Photo credits: Aurore Chollet
Courtesy of Ernestine, Photo credits: Aurore Chollet
Address:1827 Avenue du Mont-Royal Est, Montreal
Schedule: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 117 p.m.
Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.   ;
Sundays from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Online orders available on their website
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This chocolate shop on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, which opened its doors in 2018, is in a class of its own. appreciate them at fair value. Their offer this year includes small chocolate eggs with lemon and nougatine, creamy peanuts, and hens with flavors of fir and maple, passion fruit, pistachio (vegan), hazelnut and buckwheat, corn and pepper and not forgetting maple meringue and fleur de sel. Fancy and original, we love it!
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Courtesy, State of Shock
Address: 6466 boul. Saint-Laurent, Montreal
Schedule: Monday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday and Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Orders in line available on their website
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Established since 2017 in Joliette, this artisanal chocolate factory will show you all the colors. Literally. Impress cocoa lovers with their homemade version of the famous Turtles, their discovery box (rabbit, duo of marshmallows, milk chocolate bark and puffed rice as well as a tablet of caramel fleur de salt). They also offer a large surprise egg in pastel colors and even a bouquet of chocolates including tablets, rabbit-shaped lollipops and chocolate hearts. Who needs flowers, seriously?
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Courtesy , Choco Chocolat
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Address: 554 Bd Manseau, Joliette
Schedule: Monday to Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Online orders available on their website
Lecavalier Petrone
Undoubtedly one of the best chocolate shops in Quebec, Lecavalier Petrone offers small and large surprise eggs in original colors for Easter. Added to this is a cute little box that calls for spring, resulting from a special collaboration with the florist Prune les fleurs. There are small delights of apricot and chamomile caramel, grapefruit and rosemary caramel, lavender and lemon ganache as well as rose fruit paste and blackcurrant ganache.
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Courtesy, Lecavalier Petrone
The presale started on March 17th. The products will be available in stores as of March 30.
Address: 2423 rue Centre, Montreal
Schedule: Wednesday to Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Online orders available on their website < /p>
La Fabrique Arhoma
For Easter, the Hochelag’ bakery presents us with a festive offer that will certainly please sweet tooths. There are small chocolate animals, but also Easter eggs coated with crunch: a coconut milk chocolate and praligrain or a coconut dark chocolate and pistachios. Otherwise, would you be tempted by the Arhoma Egg with caramel or dark chocolate flavors? Or maybe you will leave with some pastries for your family brunches.
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Courtesy, La Fabrique Arhoma
Address: 1700 rue Ontario Est, Montreal
Schedule: Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Online orders available on their website
Qantu
Still in Hochelaga, the master chocolatiers of Quantu cannot be overlooked. Not only are their products organic and responsibly made, they make your mouth water (abundantly). We are thinking, among others, of the milk chocolate and corn praline egg, a sumptuous blend of creaminess and crunch, as well as the hazelnut and dark chocolate egg which contains crunchy delicacies. Their palettes of chocolates also know how to stand out, in particular the one called “Rêves de cashmere”, made with goat's milk. Try it!
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Courtesy, Qantu
Courtesy, Qantu
Address: 4560 Rue de Rouen, Montreal
Schedule : Monday to Thursday from 11am to 5pm
Friday from 11am to 6pm
Saturday from 11am to 4pm
Orders online available s on their website
