Orlando, FLChocolatiers and Candy Shops

A Park Avenue chocolate shop in Winter Park, the local outpost of a chocolatier that began in Jacksonville. It is known for milk chocolate coated popcorn, dark chocolate-dipped strawberries and European-style truffles within a wide range of chocolates and chocolate-dipped goodies, its team worked out its own milk and dark Dubai-style bars, and it is one of the few places that still host chocolate-making camps and classes. Order a box of truffles and a bag of the chocolate popcorn.

A Park Avenue chocolate house in Winter Park, the first American shop of a Lithuanian family business founded in 2002, with some 150 varieties of Belgian chocolate handcrafted at the family's facility in Lithuania. Filled pieces run from a caramel-filled flower to chocolate-dipped orange, the ice cream is made in this shop, and the hot chocolate comes the European way, melted chocolate in an espresso cup eaten with a spoon. Order a few filled chocolates and a cup of the hot chocolate.

A chocolate shop from David Ramirez, the pastry chef and chocolate sculptor who trained at Johnson and Wales and led Team USA at the World Pastry Cup. He makes European-style chocolates alongside macarons, brownies and cakes, selling them from this store on Central Florida Parkway and from a second counter at Plant Street Market in Winter Garden. Order an assortment of the chocolates, with a few macarons.

A downtown Sanford confectioner making artisan marshmallows with close attention to quality, inventive flavors and a sense of fun, bourbon among them, with seasonal flavors rotating through the year. Order a box of the bourbon marshmallows.