HALLOWEEN + CHOCOLATE:

A No Brainer. (Literally)

Who doesn’t love chocolate, especially on Halloween when every kid-at-heart is chomping at the bit for free handouts?! We all do. Let’s be honest. We find perfectly acceptable unacceptable excuses to get dressed up and gallivant in a costume just because we all miss walking up to a stranger’s, ghoulishly dressed lawn and saying these 3 Magic Words: Trick. Or. Treat.

Well this year, I’ll admittedly get sophisticated and say that even though trick or treating is still the greatest adventure ever (especially when you have kids and a perfectly good excuse to dress up), I’m highlighting a rather sophisticated chocolate I believe lends good fun and festivity to this skull-worthy, ghost infested, zombie ridden eve of October.

I choose a Chocolatier that gets rather inventive. In fact, I’d take a bite right out of that cute little blue ghosts head in a heartbeat.

This Halloween season FIKA, NYC’s fastest growing coffee chain, is introducing a collection of fine chocolate Gianduja Skulls, Ghosts and Pills — made in FIKA’s chocolate facility in Tribeca, available in stores and online. The chocolates are created by Swedish born Hakan Martensson, FIKA’s Master Chocolatier, who established himself at a young age as one of Europe´s most respected and admired chocolatiers and has worked in some of the top Chocolate houses in Sweden. In 2009, Hakan and FIKA joined forces and have since developed the line of exclusive hand rolled truffles, pralines and chocolate bars available at Dean & DeLuca and Whole Foods.

FIKA was founded by Lars Åkerlund in 2006. Åkerlund operates the business joined by his wife Lena Khoury, FIKA director of strategy & communications, who has a solid background in luxury retail at Hermès. FIKA brings the traditional Swedish coffee break to Americans, offering quality coffee, premium chocolates and carefully crafted food items, along with a break from the daily rush. The chain has expanded to 10 locations since its founding in 2006 with 10 additional planned in 2015. FIKA has also grown from two employees to nearly 100 including a team of Swedish master bakers, pastry chefs and chocolatiers who instruct traditional preparations and crafts in all goods.

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Dawn Garcia

Dawn Garcia is an LA born and bred Hispanic Latina. Growing up in a mixed race family that assimilated, and another that didn’t really allow for curiosity, the culmination of both became the driving force for pushing boundaries, challenging the status quo, and devoting her life to the fight for equality and social justice. In a quest to go against the grain, she started writing at a very young age to process trauma and better understand her innate desire to live out her free-spirited nature. She is a journalist and screenwriter who has developed original TV series’ and films. Her genres of choice are drama, dark comedy, and comedy. Her strengths lie in empathetic story lines, descriptors and dialogue — both natural and raw — and while diffused with humor, inevitably she hopes to show the thread that connects us all. She is currently developing a comedy TV Series for MGM Studios/Gato Grande Productions. She is a mother, an activist, and lover of life.