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Halloween treats come in all sizes at Chocolate Pizza Company. From Chocolate Pizzas that take 2 hands to carry to bite-size sweets that will make you a neighborhood hero on trick or treat night. And make no mistake, people love to celebrate October 31st. In fact, Americans spend about $6,000,000,000 (that’s “billion” with a “b”) on Halloween, making it the second biggest commercial holiday of the year behind Christmas.
While the roots of the holiday stretch back thousands of years, the modern day concept of trick or treating for Halloween treats while dressed in costume really took shape in America in the post-World War II era. The suburbs were exploding in population and sugar rationing that had been in place during the war was lifted. This freed candy companies to start producing again and they were quick to see Halloween as a prime market for their sweets. Families celebrated October 31st with decorations, gifts and even a bit of mischief so generations of Americans grew up with this holiday and passed on the traditions of Halloween.
Without a doubt, the king of Halloween treats is chocolate. In the week leading up to Halloween, over 90,000,000 pounds of chocolate candy is sold in the United States, according to the National Confectioner’s Association. At Chocolate Pizza Company, we certainly do our share of that 90 million pounds.
New this year in our Halloween treats line-up is the October Avalanche Chocolate Pizza. The Avalanche category has been our top-selling Chocolate Pizza since we introduced it several years ago. We think of the Avalanche as the “supreme” pizza of our menu – the one that comes loaded with candy favorites, the pizza with “the works.” We already have the Candy Avalanche, the Peanut Butter Avalanche, the Holiday Avalanche, the Valentine’s Avalanche and even a Spring Avalanche so it made perfect sense this fall to add the October Avalanche to the mix.
Every Avalanche including the October Avalanche starts out by blending decadent milk or dark chocolate with homemade English toffee. We make the toffee in-house and in small batches using a local recipe that dates to 1919. Ground fine and stirred into our melted, tempered chocolate, the toffee gives our Chocolate Pizza a taste so unique it’s trademarked. The mixture is then poured into genuine pizza pans, placed on a shaker table to release the trapped air bubbles and then topped with a dizzying array of chocolate candy, peanut butter candy, sugar sprinkles and more – all in Halloween’s best colors of purple, black, orange, red and yellow. These are handmade – no mass-produced Halloween treats from this company. Our Halloween chocolates are unique, delicious and impressive – you can’t say that about the usual Halloween candy. Halloween chocolates from Chocolate Pizza Company will make your big ghosts and little ghosts howl with joy.
The October Avalanche makes a great Halloween gift for families, colleagues or kids away at school. The grown-up goblins in your life may not go trick or treating anymore but that doesn’t mean they don’t love their chocolate. And what’s not to love about chocolate as good as this! The regular size October Avalanche weighs in at a hefty 20 ounces so there is plenty to share but if you really want to go extreme then the large size is a whopping 45 ounces of totally impressive chocolate excess.
Of course, sometimes you just want that little something that still celebrates the spirit of Halloween. You know, a bite-sized Halloween treat that isn’t from a bag shipped over from who knows where and made who knows when. You still want gourmet chocolate, you just want it in a trick or treat size. You are in luck – the Halloween Peanut Butter Cup – or as we call it, the Eyes Have It, was made for just that craving.
This little confectionery gem is 2 ounces of milk chocolate Peanut Butter Cup decorated with a sugar eyeball surrounded by Halloween colored sugar ghosts and sprinkles. Individually wrapped in clear cellophane this little monster is the rage with kids of all ages. It’s also the perfect size treat to drop on your colleague’s desk, hand to the mailman or surprise your favorite teachers. Tasty and tasteful, it will quickly become one of your favorite Halloween treats. So, this Halloween, why not surprise the ghouls next door or the family zombies across the country with gourmet chocolate treats that capture the spirit of this classic holiday – creative chocolate treats made in America by Chocolate Pizza Company.
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