Au Chocolat

Last night, the gift shops in the village of Baldwinsville, NY held a shopping event to encourage customers to buy local.  The event was called "Au Chocolat".  A "passport" was handed out to the shoppers and upon visiting each shop, someone would "punch" your card to verify that you visited their shop.  The cards were collected at the end of the night for entry to win a door prize.
Most of the shop were dressed for the Christmas holiday.  

BUT 
the highlight was that each shop offered a taste of chocolate.

At our first shop, these were the delectable treats.  Chocolate covered pretzels, caramels with dollops of chocolate...

... chocolate covered popcorn...

... an assortment of mouth watering candies...

... rice crispies with a drizzle of chocolate and wine and punch:

 Chocolate treats were all around the gift shop:

 The second shop was a clothing boutique, celebrating their first birthday:

 The third shop was a second hand clothing store and they served champagne and these pretty treats:

The fourth shop was a children's clothing store with lovely hand knitted accessories and served a wide assortment of chocolate sweets.

They also served chocolate cherry wine...

 and chocolate expresso wine!

 The fifth stop was a shop that specialized in cat memorabilia.  The lemon slushies were so good and complimented their fudge candies:

 The sixth shop served brownie bites and had unique jewelry and accessories:

My favorite shop had the prettiest display of cake balls and pretzels (served on my favorite MacKenzie-Childs Courtly Checks!)

The eighth gift shop served a variety of wines with caramel and chocolate popcorn and candies:

 and in this shop, these checks caught my eye:

This was such a fun way to visit many of the local shops in Baldwinsville and I bought a few Christmas presents and even treated myself to a few Christmas ornaments!

This was the second annual Au Chocolat and I look forward to attending this event every year!

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