Candy Everybody Wants

We love Dots and Butterfinger minis, but lately Bostonist has been wondering what kind of higher-end Halloween candies you can get around town. Some of our spooky finds included “eyeballs” at Gourmet Boutique, … A white-chocolate shell painted to look like a blood-shot eye gives way to a grossly gooey lemon crème filling. A little too gross for us: We preferred their mint-chocolate leaves with chocolate filling. The incomparable L.A. Burdick has adorable white chocolate ghosts (pictured at left), and so does La Tène ( its are filled with dark chocolate and spiced pumpkin). Serenade Chocolatier didn’t have anything Halloween specific, but their fall seasonal chocolates are fantastic—we particularly enjoyed a dark chocolate candy with pecan and candied cranberry.

The most unusual candy we tried wasn’t Halloweeny or fall-ish, but it was definitely scary: Mo’s Bacon Bar by Vosges Haut Chocolat. (We picked ours up at Gourmet Boutique along with the eyeballs and leaves.) We love chocolate and salt combos (chocolate-covered pretzels!), and believe that bacon might be nature’s perfect food, so we were excited to try it out. The first thing that hits you when you bite into it is the salt, then the deep milk chocolate, and finally the tiny, chewy bits of applewood-smoked bacon. It leaves a lingering, campfirey, smoky aftertaste. It's not something we'd pick up nearly as often as, say, the hazelnut 5 Star Chocolate bar, but it's worth trying at least once for the novelty factor. Some of us even found it frighteningly addictive. Photo from L.A. Burdick