10 Charming Candy Shops In Vermont With Fudge You’ll Be Thinking About For Days
So, you like fudge. Cool. One shop on this list keeps a chocolate teddy bear that’s billed as the largest in the world.
Well, that’s one way to raise the stakes.
Another spot sells fudge out of a barn built for sheep in 1842. A third has been stirring sweets in the same building since at least 1859.
Suddenly, this got interesting. Vermont doesn’t just make maple syrup and call it a day.
It pours that syrup, plus local butter and cream, into slabs of fudge worth a road trip. So how many boxes can one car really hold?
1. Whizbangs Candy Lab
Any store with “Lab” in its name had better deliver some experiments. Luckily, the results here are delicious, and nobody needs safety goggles.
Whizbangs Candy Lab opened on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace in August 2025, bringing a brightly colored assortment of sweets to a pedestrian-friendly shopping district.
The shop occupies roughly 1,500 square feet, with a kitchen at the rear where fudge and chocolate-covered treats are prepared in view of the sales floor.
That adds a little theater to an ordinary candy purchase. For a newcomer, the visible kitchen makes the sweets feel less mysterious.
The shelves mix international discoveries with familiar childhood favorites. Expect unusual imported snacks, sour candies, oversized jawbreakers, chocolate-coated pretzels, and a selection of locally produced confections.
There are also more than seventy flavors in its mix-and-match candy assortment, giving indecisive shoppers plenty to consider.
The Church Street address is 38 Church St, Burlington. Since the marketplace is pedestrianized, you can combine the stop with a stroll past nearby shops and restaurants without moving your car between storefronts.
Hours currently run from 10:30 in the morning until nine at night every day, an unusually generous window for a candy shop.
Come for fresh fudge, then allow time to look through the international selection. The biggest challenge may be remembering why you originally planned to buy only one thing.
2. Village Peddler And Chocolatorium
Most shops brag about their fudge. This one also has a giant chocolate teddy bear named Cocoa, billed as the largest in the world.
The Village Peddler and Chocolatorium occupy a former wagon shed in East Arlington, where shelves of sweets share space with gifts, maple products, preserves, and teddy bears of more manageable proportions.
Cocoa is the unforgettable centerpiece, but the real candy kitchen also produces fudge, truffles, caramels, buttercrunch, and chocolate-covered treats. There are chocolate-themed gifts here too, not just sweets for eating.
Curious about the process? The Chocolatorium offers a reservation-only chocolate experience lasting up to forty-five minutes.
Guests watch a short film, explore exhibits about cacao, taste different chocolates, and make their own chocolate bar. It turns a shopping stop into a small hands-on lesson, especially for families with questions about how candy is made.
You’ll find the building at 261 Old Mill Rd, East Arlington. The business lists daily opening during the June-through-December season, with more limited days during the first part of the year.
Chocolate experiences run on selected days and require advance reservations. The store’s candy also comes in gift assortments, so you can choose a small collection instead of committing to one fudge flavor.
Just remember to leave time to inspect Cocoa. A chocolate bear that large deserves more than a passing glance.
3. The Chocolate Barn
Sheep once lived in this barn back in 1842. Today the residents are fudge, chocolate, and ice cream, which seems like a fine upgrade.
The building belonged to a large nineteenth-century sheep farm and still retains its original roof and mortise-and-tenon framing. The Chocolate Barn became a candy shop in 1976.
When the business changed hands in 2010, its established fudge recipes and roughly two thousand chocolate molds came with it, preserving a remarkable amount of confectionery history.
The craftsmanship of the old barn itself is another reason to linger, even briefly.
Hand-dipped chocolates and homemade fudge fill the sweet side of the business, while the ice cream offers another reason to stop. Seasonal flavors have included pumpkin spice, wildflower honey, maple, and peanut butter twist.
The maple comes from a nearby sugarmaker, adding a regional touch to a treat enjoyed right beside the historic building.
For your route through Shaftsbury, use 5055 Route 7A, Shaftsbury. It’s a natural stop along the older scenic road in the southwestern part of the state.
The shop currently advertises opening from ten until five, Wednesday through Monday, with Tuesday reserved for closing.
A gift area carries work by local artisans, including jewelry, art, and home accents. Between the preserved timber structure and the chocolate cases, this is a barn worth spending time inside.
4. Mother Myrick’s Confectionery
Back in 1977, this place started as a small fudge shop with a guy known simply as the fudge man. Honestly, that’s a job title worth having.
Mother Myrick’s Confectionery began with handmade fudge, followed quickly by buttercrunch toffee and caramels.
The business added an ice cream parlor in 1978 and expanded into cakes and pastries during the following years.
Its confectionery tradition is still visible in the cases, where smooth fudge sits beside chocolate-covered buttercrunch, truffles, and carefully made sweets. Its story begins with a copper kettle.
Buttercrunch is especially distinctive. A crisp toffee center is dipped in chocolate and coated with finely chopped almonds and cashews, using locally produced creamery butter.
For something that belongs on a dessert plate rather than in a candy box, try the Lemon LuLu Cake, another long-running specialty.
The shop is at 4367 Main St, Manchester Center, making it convenient for a stop while exploring the town’s shops. Cakes, pies, cookies, and brownies give the counter a bakery side too, and advance orders are available for celebrations.
Retail hours are generally daily, with Saturday opening at nine and other days beginning at ten. The hours stretch into the late afternoon.
Start with a piece of fudge, but inspect the buttercrunch before making your final choice. It has been part of the story almost from the beginning.
5. Lake Champlain Chocolates
Ski boots, hiking boots, or flip-flops all work fine here. Stowe’s chocolate stop just wants you to show up hungry.
Lake Champlain Chocolates has been making confections since 1983, and its village store focuses on handmade truffles, sea salt caramels, chocolate clusters, and thoughtfully assembled gift boxes.
This location also has a café, so a visit can involve more than choosing something to take home.
Start with the truffle case. You can build an assortment from different fillings rather than buying a box with every flavor already decided.
Pecan caramel clusters offer a contrasting crunch, while the café serves rich hot chocolate and espresso drinks. Its small-batch ice cream is available throughout the year, including during Stowe’s colder months.
The store sits at 78 S Main St, Stowe, close to the village’s other independent storefronts.
It’s an easy addition to an afternoon spent exploring Main Street rather than a separate excursion far from town. The posted schedule is ten until five every day.
This shop is especially well suited to someone who wants chocolate truffles or a carefully selected assortment; the current Stowe offerings emphasize those sweets rather than a specific handmade fudge counter.
Leave a little room for ice cream after choosing your chocolates. A cold scoop and a warm drink make a pleasantly amusing combination in mountain weather.
6. Stowe Mercantile
Your nose might find the fudge before your eyes do.
Handmade batches are one of the pleasures waiting inside Stowe Mercantile, a village shop with the spirit of an old-fashioned general store.
The current assortment includes chocolate, chocolate walnut, maple, maple walnut, chewy praline, peanut butter, and dark chocolate sea salt caramel fudge.
There’s even a triple berry cheesecake variety for anyone who likes a more unusual choice. The fudge is made in small batches, cut into blocks, and packaged for taking home.
Beyond sweets, the shelves carry gourmet foods, maple syrup, kitchenware, toys, clothing, and locally themed gifts. Penny candy offers another route through the store, while a vintage Stowe gondola makes a playful souvenir-photo backdrop.
The mix is broad enough for someone shopping for a household gift and another person interested only in dessert.
You’ll find Stowe Mercantile in the historic Old Depot building at 38 Main St, Stowe. That address is right in the village center, so it’s simple to continue browsing nearby shops afterward.
Opening hours are nine in the morning until six in the evening, seven days a week. If fudge is the main attraction, consider choosing a few contrasting flavors rather than a large selection of similar chocolate varieties.
7. Weston Village Store
S’mores without a campfire? Lemon meringue without a pie plate? The fudge counter here makes both possibilities surprisingly easy.
Weston Village Store prepares its own cream-and-butter fudge, offering more than twenty flavors. Chocolate, raspberry chocolate swirl, maple walnut, peanut butter, and s’mores are among the choices.
A lemon meringue version brings a brighter flavor to the selection, making the decision considerably more interesting than choosing between plain chocolate and vanilla.
The rest of the shop has the character of a small-town general store. Maple syrup, regional cheeses, puzzles, magnets, clothing, candles, and other souvenirs share the shelves.
The store also carries products that make useful gifts after a trip through the Green Mountains.
Head for 660 Main St, Weston, directly across from another famous country store. The central village position makes it easy to explore more than one shop without moving the car.
You can even compare the candy selections across the street before deciding what to bring home. The village green nearby makes a pleasant pause between the two stores.
The store opens daily from nine until five. Fudge is packed for easy carrying, although protecting it from excessive heat on a long drive is sensible.
If your shopping bag already contains maple syrup or cheese, adding one small block seems almost inevitable. The harder decision is which flavor deserves that space.
8. The Vermont Country Store Weston
Calling yourself the original takes confidence.
The Vermont Country Store backs it up with a family business that began in 1946, when a restored general store opened in the village of Weston.
The shelves celebrate old-fashioned shopping, from rows of penny candy to classic toys, household tools, clothing, and pantry staples.
You can browse sweet treats, maple products, and cheese, then find yourself inspecting an unexpectedly useful kitchen gadget several aisles later. Some of the historic display fixtures were recovered from an earlier family general store, adding genuine history to the nostalgic atmosphere.
Fudge and chocolates are among the sweets sold here, but the range goes far beyond a conventional candy counter.
The store’s emphasis has always been on everyday goods and familiar products that can be difficult to find elsewhere. That gives it a distinctly different personality from the dedicated confectioneries on this list.
The building stands at 657 Main St, Weston, opposite Weston Village Store. The two destinations make a convenient paired shopping stop, with a walk around the village green afterward.
Doors are open daily from 8:30 in the morning until five in the afternoon. A maple creemee from the nearby dairy bar can add one more sweet ending when it’s operating. Come for nostalgia, then see what practical little discovery catches your attention.
9. Shelburne Country Store
Shoppers have been coming through this building for generations. Its oldest room dates to about 1835, and the sweets sold here are part of a much longer retail story.
Shelburne Country Store began with several different commercial uses. The building housed shoemaking and carpentry businesses in the nineteenth century, before becoming a general store in 1886.
Later, separate rooms were joined to form the connected shop that exists today. Antique decorative pieces still give the interior a sense of history. Those connected rooms create little surprises as you browse, even beyond candy.
Fudge is made in-house, with flavors that include maple, maple walnut, chocolate, peanut butter, chocolate walnut, and old-fashioned penuchi.
More playful options have included cotton candy, s’mores, and vanilla caramel sea salt. It’s easy to choose a familiar favorite and still find something you’ve never tried before.
In Shelburne village, the store occupies 29 Falls Rd, Shelburne, close to Route 7. Alongside the fudge you’ll find nostalgic candy, books, toys, kitchen items, gifts, and regional specialty foods.
Current hours are ten until five Sunday through Thursday, extending until six on Friday and Saturday. A weekday morning allows time to move through the interconnected rooms.
With so many flavors available, it’s worth looking beyond the first row of fudge before making your selection. The building itself deserves a second look as well.
10. 1836 Country Store
More than twenty-five fudge flavors under one historic roof? Choosing just one might be the hardest decision of the entire sweet-shopping trip.
The 1836 Country Store occupies a former barn connected to a historic Wilmington property. The main house dates to 1836, while the barn became a country store in 1966.
Its old-fashioned rooms now hold handmade fudge, chocolates, nostalgic candy, maple products, cheddar cheese, toys, and kitchen gifts.
Fudge is made in the Country Kitchen using cream and real Vermont butter. Flavors include chocolate walnut, peanut butter, maple, penuchi, chocolate mint swirl, and combinations inspired by familiar candy bars.
Penuchi gets its caramel-like character from brown sugar, making it a worthwhile alternative to a traditional chocolate square.
The shop stands at 28 W Main St, Wilmington, close to the center of this southern mountain town. Its historic building provides a fitting setting for browsing sweets and regional pantry goods before exploring the surrounding village.
Opening hours are generally ten until five every day. The extensive fudge range makes a sampler appealing, especially if several people in your group have different favorites.
You can also look through the classic candy selection and choose something small for the trip home. Even the building makes the visit memorable, with nearly two centuries of local history surrounding a modern candy counter.
