Sweet Treats

Looking for a bit of sugar for your sweetie? Try one of these delectable treats.

Use agave nectar as a ready-made substitute for simple syrup in any recipe. This organic trio features plain clear, butterscotch-y amber, and rich, molasses-like raw.

Price: $18

Shop: Foodzie

Alfajores, common in Chile and Argentina, sandwich luscious dulce de leche between two buttery wafers, then swathe them in chocolate. Mmm!

Price: $28/Box of 12

Shop: Foodzie

Each jar is a flavor snapshot of different areas of a Minnesota farm. From top: Buckwheat, Summer Blossoms, Wildflower, Prairie Flowers, Sweet Clover.

Price: $21/5 [2-ounce] jars

Shop: Ames Farm

Pear Hazelnut, Quince, and Strawberry Fig "patés"—think marmalade.

Price: $7.89 per jar

Shop: Oregon Growers and Shippers

Bright bee work: raw honey from a Tennessee farm’s wild-flowers, herbs, and shrubs.

Price: $10/12-ounce jar

Shop: TruBee Honey

As-good-as-homemade sorbet. If each bite weren't icy cold, you'd swear Ciao Bella sorbets were fruit. Our favorite flavors: raspberry, blood orange, and passion fruit.

Price: $4/Pint

Shop: Specialty Grocers

Let the kids have the candy corn and save these incredibly smooth, soft, buttery caramels for yourself. They're available in 12 flavors (from cashew to coconut), but sea salt was our favorite.

Price: $12/8-ounce bag

Shop: Indugle Caramels

There's a surprise inside these Komforte Chockolates bars: Brittle bits of ramen noodles or crisp tortilla pieces with lime and salt.

Price: $3/2.5-oz. bar

Shop: Seattle Chocolates

Luscious and light as air, French macaroons from New Orleans confectioner Sucré sandwich cream or mousseline between cloudlike layers of meringue.

Price: $23/15-piece box of assorted flavors

Shop: Sucré

Intensely flavored chocolate barks—from orange hazelnut to strangely addictive rose hip pistachio or mango paprika—from a Scarsdale, New York, artisan.

Price: $25-$27/half pound

Shop: Xocolatti