Courtesy of Lake Champlain Chocolates Vegan truffles from Lake Champlain Chocolates Is your Valentine a vegan? Good news: Lake Champlain Chocolates launched its first-ever line of vegan chocolate truffles this week, expanding its offerings for plant-based partners, pals or paramours just in time for one of the chocolate industry s biggest days of the year. As online sales grew during the pandemic, the Burlington-based company noticed more customers seeking out vegan products, Lake Champlain Chocolates Meghan Fitzpatrick told
Seven Days. That s been one of the big traffic drivers, but we just had our bars and our dark chocolate snack bites, she said. We wanted to offer something a little more indulgent and luscious and delicious.