The Roanoker - January/February 2019 - VL73

VALLEY LIFE

Retail

Let's say you're a kid in a candy shop. The Candy Store in
downtown Roanoke is a Willy Wonka-esque experience with jars
of jewel-colored sweets beckoning from every corner. Roanoke's
chocolatepaper offers delightful trifles and delectable truffles
- complete with caramel, toffee and even chocolate-covered
potato chips. Baylee's Best Chocolates in Roanoke County serves up
tantalizing hand-made confections in clusters and layers and barks.
A spot to seek out is Corbin's Confections in Salem. This
bakery stirs up everything from gingerbread-marshmallow cream
whoopie pies to elegant wedding cakes - all made without
gluten, peanuts or tree nuts. Customers drive from hours away
to fill up on baked goods that are as tasty as they are safe to eat.
"There was nowhere around here where you could buy a
dozen cupcakes that were nut free and gluten free," says owner
Shana Brown, whose now-11-year-old son, Corbin, who suffers
from peanut allergies, was the inspiration for the shop.
Inventory rotates often - vegan carrot cupcakes, chocolate
cheesecake frosted with ganache, cinnamon rolls, cream puffs,
cookies, even doughnuts.
"It's all preservative-free too. Everything here is made from
scratch," says Brown. "I feel like that equals goodness."
So what is it about the Roanoke Valley that's so sweet?
Perhaps several factors have, as of late, combined to create
a perfect recipe: two parts uptick in tourists; one part thriving

Champloo Desserts

events scene; sprinkle in a healthy wedding industry. Voila!
There's enough demand to keep the cake makers baking.
As goes BreadCraft's decadent, saucer-sized cookies, so goes
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