Just in time for holiday shopping, Valerie Confections recently opened its South Silver Lake boutique offering a full suite of Valerie Gordon’s handmade chocolates, petits fours, pastries and more. The boutique’s features quaint seating areas, artful touches, and an air of discovery with chocolate samples and curated retail finds dotted throughout the salon-like space.

The full chocolate line is available at the boutique, as well as a robust menu of cookies, petits fours and other pastries. Guests can shop for Valerie Confections’ preserves, marmalades, and everyday indulgences in bulk, like Granola, Almond Toffee Treats, Durango Bark, Sugar Cookies and more. Specialty items are also stocked including premium olive oils and unique salts, as well as select housewares.

Valerie Confections annual holiday collection evokes a 1960s department store aesthetic, featuring bold red and green graphic ornament allusions and innovative takes on fan favorites. New indulgences include the Blanc and Noir Fruitcake Bars; visual Red & Green Box; Evergreen Box with mint-infused truffles; and Peppermint Bark Cookies. Classic holiday favorites return, including Holiday Nougat; Christmas Jam; Fruitcake Blanc and Noir; and the ever-popular Peppermint Bark.

Founded in 2004 in Los Angeles by chocolatier and chef Valerie Gordon and partner Stan Weightman, Jr., Valerie Confections is recognized as one of the top artisan chocolatiers in the country. Entirely self-trained, Valerie started her namesake company with six flavors of chocolate-dipped toffee, quickly gaining an ardent fan-base for her modern interpretation of classic chocolates and confections, elegant gift packaging, and commitment to using the very best, all-natural ingredients. Since those early days, the South Silver Lake shop expanded exponentially, and now includes a popular line of petits fours, handmade preserves, cakes, wedding cakes, pastries, and a catering division.