When Halloween comes around and there is practically a license to eat as much candy as we can, we can’t help but wish we’d find more high-quality chocolates in our treats basket. That would probably depend on the neighborhood we choose to get our sweets from. We picked the top three on our list of choice cities all over the world where we would most want to go trick-or-treating based on the precious and expensive chocolates produced there.

In Neuchâtel, Switzerland, a four-year-old company creates recipes for an assortment of luxury gift items, including chocolates. DeLafée brings together two of life’s greatest indulgences: Swiss chocolate and gold. Flakes of edible 24K gold are applied by hand to each Swiss chocolate praline. The price? US$ 504 per pound.

In Dallas, Texas, we find the flagship store of Nōka where the chocolates are also handcrafted. The company prides itself in its single-estate chocolates, which simply means that each truffle, from its center to its exterior, is made of beans from a particular cacao estate. Nōka sources cacao beans from Venezuela, Ecuador, Côte d’Ivoire and Trinidad; a seasoned chocolatier would tell you that each region produces a distinctly flavored bean. This attention to flavor will set you back US$ 854 per pound.

Our trick-or-treating brings us to the town where the most expensive chocolate in the world is created – Norwalk in Connecticut. Knipschildt Chocolatier’s La Madeline au Truffe can be yours for US$ 2,600 per pound. What makes the Madeline so costly? Why, the finest ingredients, of course. There is a rare French truffle in the center surrounded by a ganache made of Valhrona dark chocolate and then dusted with cocoa powder.

Surely, Knipschildt will not part with a pound of this exquisite treat for every trick-or-treater who comes knocking on their shop door. No problem. One or two truffles will do. At US$ 250 per piece, that’s still one extravagant Halloween candy.

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