Top Hot Chocolate Hot Spots in Nova Scotia

As soon as the temperatures start to drop, many of us crave one thing more than any other on a cold, crisp evening in Nova Scotia: hot chocolate. After all, what’s winter without it? The powdered, just-add-water kind is fine for those times when you want a quick fix, but every now and then, splurging on an upgraded cup of creaminess is worth the drive!

We’ve searched the province from one end to the other looking for some of the best and locally inspired mug-ups of hot chocolate in hopes of making your winter just a little warmer (and a lot more delicious!).

Fired Creations

582 George Street, Sydney

Located in downtown Sydney, Fired Creations is Cape Breton’s only pottery painting café, offering a large selection of pottery and the tools you need to create your one-of-a-kind masterpiece. The café also serves up locally roasted coffees, lattes, cappuccinos… but more importantly, they offer delicious seasonal hot cocoas. Choose from these four chocolatey creations:

• The Butterbeer Hot Chocolate is a butterscotch white hot chocolate with whipped cream, butterscotch drizzle and sprinkles.
• The Cupcake White Hot Chocolate tastes exactly like a vanilla cupcake and is topped with sprinkles and a cherry.
• The S’more Hot Chocolate has pumps of toasted marshmallow syrup added to the hot chocolate and of course is topped with traditional s’more goodliness.
• The Strawberry Hot Chocolate tastes like a chocolate covered strawberry and is topped with whipped cream, strawberry syrup and chocolate shavings.

Rousseau Chocolatier

5151 South Street, Halifax

If you want authentic hot chocolate in downtown Halifax – this is where you’ll find it! Formerly a stand at Halifax’s Historic Farmers’ Market, Rousseau Chocolatier has evolved into a permanent spot on a prominent corner of downtown Halifax. They serve up their rich and frothy House Hot Chocolate with a blend of house-made melted dark Belgian chocolate and a hint of white chocolate, fresh milk and cream.

We highly recommend enhancing this hot chocolate experience by accompanying it with a sample of three of their handmade chocolates!

Labour Day Picnic Café

12286 Peggy’s Cove Road, Glen Haven

The folks famous for Lure Caramels have expanded and also operate Labour Day Picnic Café in Glen Haven on the Peggy’s Cove Road in Paul’s Hall, a community space that has seen many faces and many musical events held over the last few decades. Its history as a music and performance space is evident when you brush your fingertips along the well-worn, upright piano at the back of the café. Labour Day Picnic Café also has a small retail section, great food and coffee and plans for live music performances to be held in the space again in the future.

The not-so-secret ingredient in their hot chocolate? Lure Caramels own chocolate sauce. It’s crafted upstairs in Paul’s Hall and is steamed with your choice of whole or almond milk. Two ingredients – that’s all – so we think it’s completely ok if you want to have two a day.

Sugar Moon Farm

221 Alex MacDonald Road, Earltown

Cozy up in front of the fireplace at this hand-crafted maple experience deep in the sugar woods.  The Sugar Moon Farm hot chocolate is made with Just Us organic fair trade hot chocolate and a decadent maple whip – the perfect addition to your maple inspired brunch.