Fall is Fudge Season.

We love fall at Z. Cioccolato. Those early fall mornings when the air is clean and crisp you can see it at your feet while walking your dog. I like these mornings I like when the only thing I can hear is the clicking of claws on the pavement and the crunch of leaves under our feet. There’s fog rolling over the hills and big yellow clouds in the sunrise. The leaves are just starting to turn red and orange and yellow crimson and purple. And all the little grasses, turning brown, their seeds shed, skeletal fingers reaching out from earth.

I know that soon we’re gonna change the clocks and it’s gonna be dark at 4 PM again and I’ll hate it. But for right now on this beautiful morning, it feels like there’s so much of everything barely holding itself together and it’s beautiful.

So if fall is your season, my hat’s off to you. Or maybe my hat is on. It’s getting chilly.

Back at the shop, we’re turning that fall feeling into fudge: pumpkin spice, bourbon, caramel, toasted pecans, and a few things that go bump in the night.

And I highly recommend the Z.C. Bar. Holy fudging sheetpan. It is good.