Krause's Homemade Candy

Krause's Candy has been serving the Capital District for over three decades. Our candy showroom is one of the largest in the country and is filled with a wide variety of delicious treats and gifts created on the premises.

Located at 1609 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12205, Krause's Homemade Candy operates as a chocolate shop serving Albany in New York. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as gift basket store, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

American bakeries range from wholesale operations that supply restaurants to neighborhood shops that sell bread, pastries, cookies and cakes over the counter, and many of them also pour coffee. Bagel shops boil and bake on site and sell out of favorite flavors by late morning; donut shops open before dawn and are often family-run; patisseries and cake studios take custom orders for weddings and birthdays and usually need one to two weeks' notice. Ice cream parlors, gelato shops and frozen yogurt bars are seasonal in the northern states and year-round in the South and on the West Coast. Prices are posted per item, by the dozen or by the pound, and most shops now take cards and mobile payment.

Hours are published for 6 days a week. On most of those days it is open 10 am–6 pm. It is closed on Sunday. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. You can reach Krause's Homemade Candy at (518) 869-3950; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. More information is available on its website, krausescandy.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.8 out of 5 from 730 reviews, which is a strong result for a chocolate shop in Albany and suggests consistent service.

Albany is in New York, in the Northeast, where four distinct seasons shape local life: hot humid summers, snowy winters that can close businesses for a day, and a dense pattern of towns where walking, transit and street parking all matter. Traffic in Albany peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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