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Easter is generally a time for family, celebrating the arrival of Spring, and hope of a new beginning. This year, you and the Easter Bunny can fill baskets with some unique chocolates, delectable cookies, and homemade baked creations like cakesicles or hot chocolate bombs. Let these 17 Edmonton area bakeries, cakeshops and chocolatiers enhance your Easter Day celebrations this year with a memorable dessert or gift.
For the 2022 article, see: Edmonton Bakeries & Shops to Get the Sweetest Treats This Easter – 2022
Fruitty Creations
The customizable edible treats at Fruitty Creations come in all sorts of colourful Easter styles and flavours. Their fruity specialty creations are chocolate covered strawberries, but they also offer smashable chocolate hearts filled with more sweet goodies. Their adorable strawberries come in festive styles like carrots, bunny tails, and pastel swirls.
How to order: Direct message on Instagram to order
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Colleen’s Chocolates
Colleen’s Chocolates are celebrating a few things this season: first is the award to Top 100 Things to Eat or Drink in Edmonton (for their Salted Caramelized Chocolate and Biscuits Bar), and Easter! To celebrate Easter with some of Colleen’s Chocolates, expect beautiful, expect unique, and expect colour.
How to order:
Order online after March 25, or visit them at popup shops:
Culina To Go in the Oliver Exchange March 27th 11-2pm;
Caffiend Coffee shop on March 28th 11-1pm
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JACEK Chocolate Couture
This Edmonton-area favourite has a full Spring line-up ready for Easter gifting and celebrations, and their Sherwood Park store front is now open! Among JACEK’s Easter treats you can find classic chocolate bunnies, a milk chocolate frog, or cookies and cream lambs. You can also enjoy their bite-sized chocolate boxes in bright spring colours, or you can choose the larger gift boxes filled with a variety of treats.
Order in person: 406 Kaska Rd. Sherwood Park, or online
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Getting into Truffle
The unique Easter chocolates and sweets offered from Getting into Truffle are fun, tasty, and freshly homemade. This month’s cake flavours are festive carrot and banana bread, while the Easter-specific treats include chocolate covered marshmallow eggs and chocolate Bunny Bark. The cake can be ordered as adorable and festive cakescicles, as full-sized cakes, or as bite-sized cake squares.
DM on Instagram to order before March 20
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The Violet Chocolate Company
Indulge in something a little different in terms of Easter chocolates- instead of the usual chocolate eggs and bunnies, try a hand-crafted and decorated milk chocolate bar or bunny ears from this local chocolatier. The Violet Chocolate Company has received numerous awards for their creations which shows in their beauty and which are sure to show in the chocolate’s taste.
How to order:
Pickup options for set appointments from studio in south-west Edmonton.
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Cocoa Bombed YEG
The Hot Chocolate Bomb is a perfect gift for little ones and loved ones and is likely to warm your Easter celebrations. Cocoa Bombed is introducing new flavours to kick-off spring and Easter like Dark Chocolate Orange, Lavender, Mini Eggs or Strawberry Sundae. Mini Egg Hot Chocolate could be your newest Easter tradition!
Order by email: cocoabombedyeg@hotmail.com
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Sweetness
What can you order from Sweetness? Almost anything sweet: candy, macarons, cookies, chocolate, and more. Their Easter lineup includes lollipops, adorable Easter macarons, neon chocolate sugar cookies, and colouring cookies. The Colour Cookies include a blank picture on a cookie, and edible icing markers, so you can get a treat and an activity all in one.
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Essential Sweets YEG
The essentials for this Easter could include chocolate-dipped strawberries, chocolate-dipped oreos, and smashable chocolate Easter eggs. Essential Sweets is offering a full Spring/Easter collection of these tasty essentials and is currently accepting pre-orders. What’s inside the smash eggs? You’ll have to break one open to find out!
How to order: Direct message on Instagram or Facebook to order
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Milk & Cookies Bake Shop
The Mini Eggs are taking over another menu! But we consider this a good thing. An incredibly good thing. The Milk & Cookies Bake Shop is infusing these Easter favourites into a few of their menu items: try Mini Egg cookie sandwiches, Mini Egg cookies, or Mini Egg cheesecake bars.
How to Order: Order online for pickup: 5532 Calgary Tr. NW
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Sugared & Spiced Baked Goods
This Whyte Avenue bakery and cake shop is putting a Mini Egg flair on their vanilla cake. The Sugared & Spiced Mini Egg cakes consist of three vanilla layers baked with crushed mini eggs, and separated by more mini eggs, fudge, and vanilla Italian buttercream. In the same fashion as the rest of their cakes, the bakery provides eye-catching décor on the outside of the cake like a speckled backdrop, and a mini egg nest on top.
How to Order:
Order online March 17 – April 3, with 7 day’s order notice
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Bread & Butter Basket Company
This pre-order gift company is based right here in Edmonton, and provide a huge variety of handmade gifts and treats. This Easter, you can treat someone to Bread & Butter’s Easter collection of cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, toffee, fudge, and more. The Easter baskets come in a variety of price points and sizes and work well for employee gifts/corporate gifts, family get together desserts, and possibly just as a gift for yourself!
How to Order:
Order online for delivery
Sweet Secrets YEG
These sweets are all about the chocolate dip: at Sweet Secrets, you can choose from a variety of colourful and spring-themed chocolate treats, which can be fully customized. But if you like mini eggs and cupcakes, then we highly recommend you order a dozen (or 2) of their chocolate cupcakes topped with colourful vanilla frosting and Easter chocolate.
How to Order: DM on Instagram to order
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Wildrose Cakes
The decadent treats and cakes offered at this local bakery will be offered in new and fun Easter varieties for your Spring. Wildrose Cakes are known for their beautifully decorated cakes, and this Easter they deliver with their Easter Bunny Cake: a white buttercream frosted bunny filled with your choice of either carrot cake or chocolate Mini Egg flavour. But for a smaller treat, you can also try their NYC Mini Egg Cookies, Pecan Carrot Cake Cupcakes, or Chocolate Mini Egg Cupcakes.
How to Order:
Order online
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The Sweet Side YEG
In addition to the customizable cakes offered at The Sweet Side, they also offer an array of cookies, cupcakes, brownies, sugar cookie kits. Especially for Spring, you can purchase an Easter sugar cookie decorating kit with festive shapes, colours, and toppings. They also sell printed bunny cookies, and other colourful sweets that aren’t on the Easter menu, but work just as well.
How to Order:
Order online
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DD Bakeshop
This local Edmonton bakery specializes in mini cheesecakes and stuffed cookies. In addition to their regular but decadent flavours such as marshmallow, Oreo, Nutella, or chocolate, they’ve also added some Easter favourites: Mini and Crème Egg! For Easter, DD is also creating golden smash eggs, filled with even more chocolates and candies.
How to Order:
Call to order: (780) 257-0031
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Sweet Gi’s
Easter is more known for the Easter egg decorating, but you could consider a much sweeter activity for you and your family: try an Easter-themed cookie decorating kit from Sweet Gi’s. The kit has a gluten-free option, and comes with pastel icings, candies, chocolates, and sprinkles with which to decorate. You can also order these same cookie shapes already decorated.
How to Order:
Order online
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Butter Together Bakeshop
All year-round you can find unique baked creations from Butter Together, and Easter is no different. This local bakeshop offers Easter cookie decorating kits, candy and chocolate filled chocolate eggs, Easter tarts, and smashable eggs.
How to Order:
Call to order: (780) 720-6058
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BY: Bernadette Gallagher