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The Best Easter Treats in Toronto

Christine Peddie

8 months ago

Despite your religious leanings, it's likely you're a devotee of the cult of cute Easter chocolates and sweets. Indulge in the best Easter treats in Toronto, with a selection that's so big on indulgent ingredients, so thoroughly awash in pastels, so inspired by spring's cutest fauna, and so unbelievably appealing that you'll want for nothing. Start sampling them today, then place your orders. For gifts, for yourself, for your celebration table, or just to brighten up a long weekend, the best Easter treats in Toronto check every box, deliciously.

342 Westmoreland Ave N

Good Behaviour

A true sign of spring, Bunny Hop ice cream is back at Good Behaviour. Made from a chocolate base with marshmallows, fudge and mini eggs, this decadent scoop seems as close an approximation as possible to plunging head first into an overfilled Easter basket. New this year, Carrot Cake combines a spicy base, cake pieces, pecans and cream cheese into spring's most covetable frozen treat.

The Teeny Tiny Bakery

They may be teeny, tiny, but each and every cookie Jacqueline Long touches is big on buttery flavour and virtually bursting with cuteness. Pick up a selection of her seasonal designs at this spring's One of A Kind Show (March 29th to April 2nd), or check the company's Instagram for availability.

1970 Avenue Rd

The Rolling Pin

The folks at The Rolling Pin know how to light up a room come Easter weekend. Dress any table with a selection that includes Easter Donuts, Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies, Mini Egg Cheesecake Pie and a Mini Egg Cake, and you know exactly where everyone's gaze will fall.

1162 Queen St W

The Grand Order of Divine Sweets

From the traditional to the decidedly unorthodox, The Grand Order of Divine Sweets truly has a sweet for everyone this Easter. There are Baby Yoda Eggs and dazzling Galaxy Smash Eggs (filled with salted exploding caramels), and a ZomBunny Cake that turns the cute bunny model on its head. For everything your spring celebrations could ever possibly need, look no further.

653 Dupont St

Stubbe Chocolates

It's difficult to choose a favourite among Stubbe Chocolates' tempting Easter collection. Still, with an assortment of truffles and bonbons housed in an edible box, embellished with Easter decor, the Easter Chocolate Box is hard to top. Gift them to one and all, and make friends for life.

362 King St E

Steven Tran Chocolates

In robin's egg blue, Steven Tran's 66% dark chocolate egg with a pure hazelnut espresso crunch filling is the stuff Easter dreams are made of. Pre-order yours beginning April 2nd, and don't let anything stand between you and pickup on April 9th.

552 Parliament St

Staij and Co

Staij & Co.'s assortment of pastel-tinted treats are just the thing if upstaging the Easter Bunny is high on your list. Choose from smash eggs or Bunny Bait Snack Mix, or decorate your table with an elaborate Mini Egg Easter Cake and Bunny and Friends Cookies. Order early, and you'll soon find every delightful treat delivered to your door.

22 Sackville St

Spaccio

With six intriguing flavours in each carton, Spaccio's new Artisanal Easter Eggs are as sophisticated as they are beautiful. Buy a few, because with flavours like Brown Butter Candied Orange, Pineapple Mango Marshmallow, and Coffee Caramel Banana, you'll want more than one chance to sample each one.

443 King St W

SOMA Chocolatemaker

Why should bunnies have all the fun? This year, invite Niblet, Soma's new baby beaver creation, to join the Easter festivities. Handmade from dark, caramel and white chocolates, with hazelnut chocolate fur, each cute creature contains an assortment of fruit chocolate leaves. Also on offer, Soma's fluffle of rabbits — from solid Runaway Bunnies to fruit-flavoured Baby Bunnies.

1945 Avenue Rd

Short and Sweet Bakeshop - North York

With an ingredient list heavy on creme eggs, mini eggs, velvety buttercream, and chocolate, Short & Sweet's Easter shop is the stuff dessert dreams are made of. On the must-have list? A gorgeous assortment of twice-baked cookies, fudgy brownies, cupcakes, and a basque cheesecake that just might become your new holiday tradition.

374 Royal York Rd

SanRemo Bakery

Made from tender panettone dough, San Remo's Nutella Easter Cake is just the thing to carry you through from breakfast to bedtime. Available alongside other Easter favourites, such as hot cross buns, mini egg doughnuts, cakes, pies, and pastries, this substantial sweet is perfect for anyone expecting swarms of visitors this year.

717 Queen St W

Nugateau Patisserie

Nugateau never fails to impress with eclairs that are as artistic as they are delicious. Visit the boutique or order online for a selection from the team's Easter collection that goes far beyond the basics.

1099 Yonge St

Nadege

If the thought of an uplifting cornucopia of seasonal, pastel-toned Easter sweets fills your heart with joy, you know what to do. Head to your nearest Nadège, where the Easter 2023 selection is guaranteed to wow. Find chocolate bunnies, eggs, chickens, and more, along with cookies, and intricate layered desserts that just might steal the show.

Mellis Chocolate

The only thing better than Beans — Mellis Chocolates' dark chocolate and rice crispy bunny butt digging into an Amatika flower pot — are the flavourful treats housed within. From fruity artisanal gummies, and chocolate covered pretzels, to a passion fruit mini bunny, every morsel is made by the talented team. Pick up Beans, along with his buddies Eve and Daisy, in-store.

1912 Danforth Ave

Mary's Brigadeiro

The epitome of decadent, each Duo Chocolate Easter Egg from Mary's Brigadeiro is made up of two half eggs brimming with flavoured brigadeiro filling. Choose from classic, coquito, dulce de leche with walnut, or passion fruit and ruby chocolate, and create your perfect chocolate confection. Duo eggs are available online and in-store.

325 Bay St

Louix Louis

As elegant as you'd expect from the team at Louix Louis, the St. Regis Surprise Egg is the extravagant touch your Easter celebration deserves. Filled with a beautiful assortment of hand-made sweets, each egg is a thoughtful gift and dessert in one. Order through the Louix Louis website.

G Sweets

With a menu of treats made from wholesome, mostly organic ingredients, G Sweets' offerings are as natural as they are delicious. For Easter, what better way to celebrate than with a mini Easter Funfetti Carrot Cake made with organic carrots, red fife flour, pecans, and mascarpone and maple sugar cream. The literal icing on the cake? A brown sugar buttercream adorned with a flurry of naturally-tinted confetti.

Manulife Centre

Eataly Toronto

Known as a sweet sign of spring in Italy, Colomba are a rich, fluffy cake we can all get behind. Available in a range of flavors — from classic and chocolate to pistachio, amaretto, pear and chocolate, and more — each makes a gorgeous centrepiece for your Easter table.

TD Towers

Delysées Luxury Desserts

If you've never opened a carton of eggs and gasped in glee, you've never had a carton of eggs à la Delysées. Cradling six individual cakes, in flavours ranging from Strawberry Cookies and Cream to Espresso Tiramisu, this carton is filled with the type of delicious whimsy Easter demands.

David H. Chow

Brimming with colour, creativity and flavour, each item in David H. Chow's Easter collection is a small, stunning work of art. Available at several stockists around town, this year's singular selection includes Sunny-Side Up Smash Eggs, Neapolitan Bunny Bars, Bunny Ear Bonbons and Spring Garden Candy Bars, with coconut, almond and walnut blond chocolate gianduja, Oreo "dirt" and the most precious salted caramel vegetables you ever saw.

483 Church St

Craig's Cookies - Church

After weeks of Lenten restraint, few things satisfy quite like oodles of gooey, glorious, candy-stuffed Craig's Cookies. With Mini Egg, Kinder Surprise, Carrot Cake, Rainbow Bright, Skor and Classic Chocolate Chip, the Easter Mix offers up all of your seasonal favourites, cookified. Better Yet? The colossal Cadbury Crème Egg cookie, which consists of an entire chocolate egg encased in dough, then baked to golden perfection.

824 St Clair Ave W

Chocolat De Kat

Order one of Chocolat de Kat's Hoppie, Hoppier or Hoppiest Easter Bundles and you'll soon find yourself in the pleasant position of having a number of spring bonbons, chocolate eggies, and filled bunnies to devour.

1418 Dundas St W

Butter and Spice

Offering a slew of fudgy, delectable brownies in a range of flavours, Butter and Spice makes easy work of shopping for Easter goodies. Select an assorted box, with up to 18 treats, and be sure to include the team's Mini Egg Brownies in the mix. With each bite, you'll get milk chocolate brownie, chocolate frosting, ganache drizzle and the pleasing crunch of crushed candy eggs.

1636 Bayview Ave

Bomou Artisanal Bakery

Coconut and mango may not be traditional Easter flavours but that's no reason not to invite them to the table. Incorporated into a delicate, egg-shaped mousse, which is then gently set upon a chocolate nest, Bomou's Petit Oeuf is a delightfully tropical dessert for any Easter gathering. Order several, along with some of the team's whimsical smash eggs and bunnies, and guarantee a celebration to remember.

1121 Queen St E

Bobbette & Belle

Some occasions cry out for elaborate layer cakes sporting hand-piped garden flowers and gilded bunny decorations. At Bobbette & Belle, you'll find Garden Bunny Easter Cakes along with meringue-topped cupcakes, seasonal sugar cookies and other delights ideal for stylish affairs. To view the collection, visit one of the bakery's two locations, or order online, for pickup.

Bite Me Cookie

Offering front-door cookie delivery, Bite Me Cookie is as easy to work with as the Easter Bunny himself. Choose your favourites from a lengthy list of cookies bursting with candy, or indulge in cheesecake squares, brownies, and more.

Toronto

Biscotti Queen

Biscotti Queen Nancy Burkes is at it again, with a special edition biscookie (a biscotti and cookie hybrid with a tender crumb) featuring one of the season's most popular sweets. Available alongside the monarch's dozen regular flavours, the Chocolate Caramel Crème Egg biscookie is available for delivery, but only for a limited time.