Chocolate-Covered Alaska

If you’ve ever wondered what Alaska kelp, potato chips, or spruce tips would taste like in a chocolate bar, now’s your opportunity to find out. Local chocolatiers are blending Alaska ingredients and creativity into fine chocolates and creating special bean-to-bar confections; the resulting creations are a win-win-win for chocolate lovers all over the state. We tried to find all the chocolatiers we could, but let us know if you have a favorite we missed!

Birdwings Fine Chocolate: Anchorage | birdwingschocolate.com Birdwings creates truffles and fine chocolates featuring local ingredients like Kaladi coffee, Alaska Meadery’s Razzery mead, local beers, and more. Available at pop-up events and on their website.

Chugach Chocolates: Anchorage | chugachchocolates.com Chugach’s distinctive brown wrappers hide fun local ingredients like potato chips, kelp, and birch syrup. Available in 30 shops around the state and a few Outside locations.

Coddle & Cosset: Anchorage | coddleandcosset.com A nomadic favorite in the big city, Coddle & Cosset fearlessly wields local ingredients like fennel, spruce tips, honey, and raspberry jam in the making of their chocolate treats. Available at pop-up events.

Homer Truffle Co.: Homer | homertruffle.co Roving chocolatiers with clever local ingredients like rhubarb, spruce tips, and—believe it or not—gold. Free delivery in the Homer area, or buy online.

Ketchicandies: Ketchikan | 907-617-2462 Beloved by locals and tourists alike, this cruise-adjacent chocolatier has decades of experience making candies and fudge by hand. Available in their shop which is open year-round. Call for winter hours.

Mrs. Claws Chocolate Bar: Fairbanks | mrsclawschocolatebar.com Interior Alaska’s favorite chocolatiers put a sprinkle of Alaska sea salt inside most of their handcrafted bars. Buy online and make an appointment for in-store pickup.

Pete’s Treats: Cordova | Find on Facebook Pete’s chocolate comes from around the world, but he harvests local ingredients like nagoonberries and spruce tips himself. Local delivery, or he can ship.

Sweet Chalet: Anchorage | sweetchaletalaska.com If you’ve ever wanted to eat the northern lights, come here for their hand-painted, aurora-inspired truffles. Two locations—300 E. Dimond Blvd. or the lobby level of The Hotel Captain Cook.

Sweet Darlings: Seward | seward.net/~darling/index.html A beloved local institution in the historic Brown & Hawkins building. Stop here for hand-pulled taffy, gelato, and fine Alaska-made chocolate.

Sweet Song Chocolates: Juneau | sweetsongchocolates.com Sweet Song uses chocolate that is sustainably and socially responsibly produced to create artisan ganache bonbons “infused with the flavors of Southeast Alaska and the Pacific Rim.” Special order, or at special events.

The Chocolate Moose: Sitka | sitka-flowers.com Handmade, European-style chocolates in a flower shop, Sitka Flowers. The chocolate-dipped mangos and mint patties are to die for.

Wildland Chocolate: Anchorage | wildlandchocolate.com This bean-to-bar crafter uses ethical, single-origin cocoa beans in small batches. Tasting the variety and nuance in these bars is a delicious revelation. Find them at farmers markets and pop-up events.