Sweet Treats from 10 of Vancouver's Top Bakeries

No Vancouver holiday would be complete without Purdys chocolates (pictured: Pistachio cranberry bark $17, 300 g; milk chocolate bells, $11, 25 pieces; maple nut fudge, $16, 15 oz, purdys.com).

Mellifera Bees’ gourmet infused honey is made with unprocessed honey harvested from hives around the Lower Mainland (pictured: cardamom-infused honey, $10, 4 oz jar, $17, 8 oz jar, melliferabees.com).

Sweet, savoury and oh-so-addictive, Vancouver’s Batch Sweet Kitchen makes their gourmet salted caramel popcorn by hand in small (delicious) batches ($8.49, 135 g bag at Edible Canada, batchsweetkitchen.com).

This beautiful new bakery in Yaletown offers up cupcakes, cookies plus meringues in a variety of colours and flavours, including vanilla, orange creamsicle and coconut ($2 for 4, 1141 Mainland St., sweetbakeshop.com).

Butter’s Holiday Box includes their famous marshmallows as well as rum balls, mince tarts, gingerbread men, a snowflake butter cookie, spiced nuts and much more ($140, 497 MacKenzie St., Vancouver, butterbakedgoods.com).

This lovely pastry assortment from Faubourg includes bite-sized tarts as well as pieces of passion fruit cake and coffee opera cake ($18, 769 Hornby St. & 2156 West 41st, Vancouver and Park Royal South, West Van, faubourg.com).

Crisp on the outside and soft in the centre, these cream puffs from East Van’s Beta 5 are pure decadence ($4.50 each, 4 for $16 or 9 for $35, 413 Industrial Ave., Vancouver beta5.myshopify.com).

From master chocolatier Thomas Haas, this German Christmas bread is a holiday classic ($17, small, $27, large, 2539 W. Broadway, Vancouver and #128, 998 Harbourside Dr., North Van, thomashaas.com).

Specializing in French-style macarons, this Coal Harbour pastry shop has both classic flavours (pistachio, rose, vanilla) as well as seasonal offerings ($63, box of 30, 1433 West Pender St., Vancouver, soirette.com).

Beaucoup Bakery Sweet Bars

This French-inspired pâtisserie
in Kits bakes up delicious treats,
like the Valrhona chocolate brownie topped with crystallized violet and the Marcona almond bar ($4.75 each, 2150 Fir St., Vancouver beaucoupbakery.com).