10 Amazing Gourmet Candy Stores In DFW

Do you know the saying: “Like a kid in a candy store?”

Well, when your sugar cravings are taken to the next level, these gourmet candy pastry chefs will bring you the pure bliss of a child. But get ready – these handcrafted candies don’t come from your typical candy store.

Kilwins is one of the locals’ favorite gourmet sweets! | Photo by David Downs

Kilwin’s Plano

7161 Bishop Rd g3, Plano, TX 75024 (The stores in the Legacy)

5752 Grandscape Blvd, Suite 300, The Colony, TX 75056 (The Grandscape)

338 S. Main Street, Grapevine, TX 76051

At the top of this delicious list of local selections of gourmet candy and other assorted candy is Kilwins, which offers three accessible locations for Collin County’s residents.

The name “Kilwins” leads me to the main street of my college town, where I pass the fragrant confectionery on my regular hike to Target for snacks and air fresheners. I pause and consider all of the reasons why I shouldn’t buy Kilwin’s wickedly rich hot chocolate every day, mostly because I can’t afford to go into debt even more for sweet treats, no matter how delicious. But Kilwins often wins anyway.

The Kilwins in Plano, located in the Shops at Legacy, offers what loyal customers love most about the chain: sweets and treats – from ice cream to chocolate to caramel corn, caramel apples and freshly made in-house fudge.

(Read about the Rodriguez’s, the family that brought Kilwins to Texas.)

Pop! | courtesy of make your life sweeter.

13350 Dallas Pkwy Ste 1200, Dallas, TX 75240 (Galleria Mall Dallas)

The game of gourmet sweets just got more luxurious!

Yasmeen Tadia, founder of Make Your Life Sweeter brands – Fluffpop, HotPoppin, Sugaire, and Modsweets – was first inspired to make gourmet candy when she discovered that healthy snacks were few and far between for her son Zain.

A feature of all Tadia products is the range of unconventional but oh-so-delicious flavors. Fluffpop, the mini cloud made of cotton candy on a stick, is available in guava, lychee, caramel and pumpkin spice flavors. It’s gluten-free, vegan, kosher, and halal. If you can’t get enough of Fluffpop, try Sugaire, organic cotton candy in larger serving sizes. HotPoppin offers homemade popcorn in flavors such as banana laffy taffy, creme brulee cheesecake, fried cucumber and margarita. Modsweets sells popcorn and cotton candy, as well as chocolates and gummies.

Okay, these chocolate truffles are top gourmet candy. | Courtesy of make your life sweeter

The Sweet Boutique, the only personal store for Make Your Life Sweeter products, is located in Galleria Dallas. They currently offer one-hour socially distant dessert tastings with up to 21 sweets and treats.

(Read more about the Make Your Life Sweeter store, owner Yasmeen Tadia, here.)

Photo courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory website

2091 Summer Lee Dr. # 103, Rockwall, TX 75032

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory is one of the largest chocolate retailers in the world with stores in the USA, the Philippines, Panama, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.

The chain is best known for selling classic goodies like caramel apples, handmade fudge, fruits and nuts dipped in chocolate, nut clusters and buttercreams the old-fashioned way: chilled over a gas stove and on a granite marble top. At most locations, customers can make the rustic gourmet candy right in front of their eyes, making the entire experience a feast for the senses.

A See candy store is a real delight for those looking for a gourmet candy. | Shutterstock

See’s candies

2601 Preston Rd, Frisco, TX 75034 (Stonebriar Center)

5600 Nebraska Furniture Mart Dr, The Colony, TX 75056

8687 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX 75225 (NorthPark Center)

See’s Candies was founded in 1921 when Charles and Mary See opened the first Pasadena location. Charles designed the original shop window front based on the couple’s black and white checkered eat-in kitchen, in which Mary lovingly handcrafted each creation.

Since then, the company has grown to over 200 locations, all of which have the same checkered design. Some of the chain’s well-known, yet pure, gourmet candies – like Peanut Brittle, Victoria Toffee, and Chocolate Walnut Fudge – are made to Mary See’s original recipes, and all are still handcrafted.

The DFW metroplex has three See’s Candies: in the Stonebriar Center, the Nebraska Furniture Mart in Colony and in the Northpark Center in Dallas. As one social media user put it, “You know a mall is more elitist when it has a See’s Candies.”

Texas Treats

114 N Tennessee St, McKinney, TX 75069

Photo courtesy Goodies Texas.

Goodies Texas is a family-owned candy store in historic downtown McKinney. They offer chocolates, fudge, chocolates and other gourmet candies made by a chocolatier with over 10 years of experience, as well as retro games and other novelties to collect.

In addition to the classics, the gourmet candy store offers a variety of unique delicacies such as pate de fruit, cheesecake bars, muesli breakfast bars and truffles in different flavors (rose-raspberry-amoretto’s, anyone?).

Photo courtesy of the website for toffee treats and chocolate candies

Pickup Only: Sweet Firefly, 2701 Custer Rd, Richardson, TX 75080

Toffee Treats was started by Mary Louise Dubay, who lives in Plano, inspired by the Christmas days of her childhood watching her grandmother cook large amounts of golden toffees over the stove.

Now Mary Louise – ML for short – offers handmade toffee and other gourmet candies to customers across the country. ML is a cancer survivor and a portion of the proceeds from her toffee sales go to charitable foundations that support cancer fighters.

Photos courtesy of Mom and Popcorn in McKinney.

Mom and popcorn

215 E Louisiana St, McKinney, TX 75069

Not a gourmet candy store per se, but still a magical experience with salty delicacies to compensate for the sweet!

This family-run business in historic downtown McKinney offers over 50 flavors of gourmet popcorn, including mint chocolate chips, flavorful pickles, root beer float, flavorful taco, old fashioned cocktails, apple pie kettles, and more. They also offer a wide variety of nostalgic candy and glass bottle lemonades.

Yes-ha! Celebrate your Texan pride with these dark chocolate cowboy hats. | Photo courtesy of Dr. Sue’s Chocolate on Facebook

Dr. Sue’s chocolate

417 S Main St, Grapevine, TX 76051

Dr. Sue is a practicing health care professional who inspires North Texas residents to adopt healthier lifestyles by indulging themselves with all-natural chocolate that still hits the decadence that only gourmet candy can offer.

All products from Dr. Sue are of the highest quality, with natural ingredients and no preservatives, artificial colors, flavors or sweeteners.

Baconfat-butterscotch-filled skulls … gourmet candy in their most dangerous form. | Photo courtesy the guy, cute chocolate website

Dude, sweet chocolate

408 W Eighth Street # 102, Dallas, TX 75208

Gourmet sweets in their most dangerous form.

Dude, Sweet founder Katherine Clapner is from Dallas, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in NYC and a taste connoisseur, having worked in restaurants from Dallas to New Orleans, Venice to London. In addition to traditional chocolates, Dude Sweet also offers matcha-flavored candy bars with candied breadcrumbs, human-sized dark chocolate brains filled with cocoa puffs, and a cocoa baby head to fuel your nightmares (don’t you believe me? Check out Talky Tina).

There is also the Fungus Amongus Soft Toffee with porcini mushroom powder and pumpkin seeds, as well as skulls filled with bacon fat and butterscotch (picture above). I know I drool too.

These wonderfully monstrous marshmallows are absolutely gourmet candy. | Courtesy Mallow Box

Mallow Box S’mores Bar and Gourmet Marshmallows

6121 W Park Blvd FC-109, Plano, TX 75093 (The stores at Willowbend)

7800 Windrose Ave, Plano, TX 75024 (Legacy Food Hall)

13350 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75240 (Galleria Dallas, ice rink level)

A few years ago, Mallow Box founder Martha Ware made a marshmallow bouquet as a dessert for her husband’s birthday. It was an instant hit. Martha is a Brazilian American and attributes her delicious marshmallow recipe to the fact that she makes her own marshmallows out of necessity; Obviously, in Brazil, finding marshmallows in grocery stores is difficult, let alone gourmet-candy-grade marshmallows.

After finding out that her marshmallows were even better than the store-bought varieties, she started selling them from her own kitchen and then opened her first location in the Shops at Willowbend. Mallow Box is now a thriving company with three locations in North Texas.

(Read more about Mallow Box at Willow Bend Mall here.)

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