Fraser Valley Gourmet
A small candy factory on the Langley Bypass run by three South African chefs, cooking caramel toffee crunch and Turkish delight in small batches, all gluten free, sold online with factory pickup and through retailers.
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- Where
- Unit 205, 20701 Langley Bypass, Langley City, a factory unit on the Bypass at the 207 Street line
- Open
- Online orders can be collected Monday to Thursday, 10 to 4, once they email that it's ready. No walk-in shop is advertised
- Good to know
- Everything is gluten free; the Turkish delight is vegan too. Shipping in Canada is free over $52, otherwise $17 flat
Somewhere in a unit on the Langley Bypass, a steel kettle of caramel is bubbling. Most of us have driven past without knowing. Fraser Valley Gourmet makes toffee and Turkish delight there and sells it almost entirely online and through other people’s shelves, which is why a candy maker with a Langley address can be news to Langley.
Who makes it?
Three friends from South Africa, all chefs, who bought a small existing candy factory in Langley after moving to Canada. The About page introduces them as Jan, Adri and David, and Instagram is where you’ll see them at work, sprinkling almonds over a sheet of toffee the size of a door or scraping a batch out of the kettle. The company, Fraser Valley Gourmet Ltd., has been on the BC registry since 2016; the site doesn’t say when the three took over. It notes support from the province’s Buy BC program.
What’s in the bags?
Three lines, all made in small batches:
- Caramel crunch: a soft-crunch caramel toffee topped with milk or dark chocolate and almonds, or dark chocolate and popcorn. $7.50 for a 90 g pouch, which works out to five or six pieces because they fill by weight.
- Almond butter crunch: the nuttier line, in milk chocolate, dark chocolate, dark chocolate and espresso, or coconut lemon chai. $8.50 a pouch, $25 for a 300 g box.
- Turkish delight: soft sugar-dusted cubes in rose and lemon or assorted fruit, $11.99 for 250 g (ten to twelve pieces), vegan as well as gluten free.
No gluten goes into anything, though the site says the facility isn’t certified, so anyone with celiac disease should weigh that. The candy melts in a hot car; a sealed pouch keeps in a cool cupboard or the fridge.
Can I just show up?
Not as far as their site says. The published route is: order online, choose factory pickup instead of shipping, wait for the email saying it’s ready, then collect it at Unit 205 between 10 and 4, Monday to Thursday. There’s no mention of a counter or walk-in sales, so don’t make a special trip without an order in hand.
What about shipping and shops?
Orders go out three times a week by Canada Post or courier, free anywhere in Canada over $52 (seven pouches gets you there) and $17 flat below that, arriving three to seven days later. The site has a retailers map and a wholesale page for shops that want to stock it, and they take corporate gift orders by email.
More Langley sweets: Into Chocolate in Fort Langley. More of the Bypass strip: our Langley City guide and Shop Local in Langley City.
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