Valentine’s Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats

Valentine's Day in Vancouver

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a collection of delicious sweet treats? Valentine’s Day this year is on Tuesday, February 14. It’s fast approaching, so definitely bookmark these spots for your heart warming treats!  Celebrate Valentine’s Day in Vancouver and check out 5 spots offering delicious sweet treats below!

1. BETA5 Chocolates – I ❤️ U Valentine’s Collection

BETA5 Chocolates never disappoint with their seasonal collections, and Valentine’s is no exception. To celebrate Valentines they are offering a variety of special treats including a Cherry Cola Polygon Bar, a 12 piece Valentine’s Chocolate Collection and a trio of special cream puff flavours.

BETA5 Chocolate’s Valentine’s collection contains 12 pieces of 6 different beautifully handmade chocolates:

  • Matcha Berry – premium matcha ganache + strawberry ganache
  • Technicolour Funk – caramelized white chocolate ganache infused with House of Funk Roasters ‘Technicolour’ espresso beans
  • Passion – Vanilla – vanilla bean ganache + passionfruit caramel
  • Raspberry – Rose rose petal-infused white chocolate ganache + raspberry jelly
  • Cinnamon Heart – cinnamon heart-infused 46% milk chocolate ganache + molten cinnamon heart centre
  • Dark Chocolate Caramel – 66% dark chocolate ganache + salted caramel ganache
Valentine's Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats BETA5 Chocolates cream puff collection
Photo courtesy of BETA5 Chocolates

The I ❤️ U Cream Puff Pack features:

  • RED VELVET – cocoa nib custard / red velvet cake / vanilla chantilly / cream cheese mousse
  • TEDDY BEAR – dark chocolate mousse / blackout sponge cake / caramel custard / salted caramel
  • PASSION – passionfruit curd / vanilla bean custard / vanilla bean mousse

BETA5 Chocolates
Address: 409 Industrial Ave, Vancouver, BC V6A 2P8
Website: https://shop.beta5chocolates.com/

2. Kafka’s Coffee Roasting – Big Heart ‘Pizza’ Cookie

Valentine's Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats Kafka's Heart Shaped Pizza Cookie
Photo Credit: Shane Ward

Kafka’s Heart Shaped Pizza Cookie features a perfectly chewy eight-inch cookie is topped with classic candies and sweets including Oreo pieces, chocolate Smarties, and marshmallows. If you participated in the Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival, you will have had a delicious taste of this cookie as a cookie wedge with their Ultimate ‘Kid’s’ Hot Chocolate. Kafka’s Big Heart ‘Pizza’ Cookie is priced at $24, and available at Kafka’s Yaletown and Great Northern Way locations, February 10 – 14, 2023.

Kafka’s Coffee Roasting
Yaletown Address: 860 Richards St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3B4
Great Northern Way Address: 577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC V5T 1E1
Website: http://www.kafkascoffee.ca/

3. Buttermere Patisserie – Valentine’s Day Collection

Valentine's Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats Love Note Cake Butterfly Valentine Cake Chocolate box set
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For Valentine’s Day Buttermere Patisserie is featuring two delightful cakes and a limited edition 9-piece chocolate box. The two cakes are:

  • Love Note – chocolate sponge cake, stracciatella namelaka, and a cherry compôte presented as a concentric circle. The Love Note cake is available for order in two sizes: 4.5 inches at $48 and 6 inches at $70.
  • Butterfly Valentine – 6-inch mousse strawberry shortcake, with a flaky strawberry crumble crust topped with flexible cacao sponge, mixed berry compôte, and a Zéphyr™ light mousse for $70.  

The 9-piece box of handcrafted bonbons features:

  • Red silver – 71% dark chocolate and freeze dried cherry and cherry ganache;
  • Silver rose gold – passion fruit chocolate paired with pineapple ganache and popping candies; and
  • Black gold – 34% white chocolate with sesame paste and feuilletine.

Both cakes and the limited edition chocolate box are now available for order and can be picked up from February 1-14th.

Buttermere Patisserie
Address: 958 Main St, Vancouver, BC V6A 2W1
Website: http://buttermere.ca/

4. Salty Sugar Patisserie – Heart Bouquet Cake

Valentine's Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats Salty Sugar Patisserie - Heart Bouquet Cake
Photo courtesy of Salty Sugar Patisserie

Salty Sugar Patisserie has created a beautiful tea forward cake to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The cake features black tea mousse, strawberry jam and a baked cheesecake. The crowning glory is a stunning handcrafted heart bouquet on top that is made with dark chocolates.

The cake is now available for order and is available for pick up and delivery.

Salty Sugar Patisserie
Address: 6947 Victoria Dr, Vancouver, BC V5P 3Y7
Website: http://saltysugarpatisserie.com/

5. Chez Christophe – Valentine’s Day Collection

Valentine's Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats Chez Christophe - Valentine's Day Collection Chez Christophe X Paragon Tea Valentine's

The Chez Christophe Valentine’s Day collection features a beautiful chocolate showpiece, a special chocolate box collaboration with Paragon Tea Room as well as various pastries and cakes.

The Chez Christophe X Paragon Tea Valentine’s 9pc Box features:

  • Assam Black Tea with Cranberry
  • Jasmine Honey
  • Matcha Raspberry

The other flavours in the box will be an assorted collection from their signature Bonbon collection.

To celebrate Valentine’s they’ve also decorated their signature croissant cube with a beautiful rose. The feature flavour will be a raspberry rose pastry cream filled red croissant cube. This cube will only be available from February 10th to 14th. 

The two cake specials are:

  • Expressing my Feelings – a vegan Valentine’s day special that features a vegan milk chocolate creameux, coffee gel, coffee milk chocolate crunch, dark chocolate ganache.
  • My Sweet Tart – almond apple frangipan tart with caramelized apple confit, cinnamon crumble, caramel monte. 

Chez Christophe
Address: 4717 Hastings St, Burnaby, BC V5C 2K8
Website: http://www.chez-christophe.ca/

6. Little Flower Company – Valentine’s Canelés Box 

Valentine's Day in Vancouver 2023: 6 Spots for Sweet Treats Little Flower Company - Valentine's Canelés Box 

Little Flower Company makes some of the best canelés in Vancouver and they have a very special offering for Valentine’s Day. There are two box sizes available (4 and 6). The flavours are:

  • Madagascar vanilla & rum
  • Earl grey tea (only in 6 pcs box)
  • Matcha lava
  • Dark chocolate truffle
  • Black sesame kinako (only in 6pcs box)
  • Passionfruit Chocolate

The boxes are now available for preorder. Pick up start on Feb 11,13,14 only (11:30am-3:00pm) at their new storefront!

Little Flower Company
Address: 3586 Fraser St, Vancouver BC V5V 4C6
Website: https://www.littleflowercompanycake.com/

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