Chocolatiers and confectioners feature some of their best work in the fall, but it often gets overlooked. The local shops seem to skip straight from trick-or-treat to Christmas displays, with sticky  Halloween sweets for children giving way to candy canes in the blink of an eye.

This year, don't miss some of the autumn-themed sweets fine shops have created for the harvest season. Buy some to keep for yourself, or to give as hostess gifts at parties. As pretty as these treats are, you can even make them part of your Thanksgiving table display, or add a dish of pretty sweets to your holiday dessert table.

Pecan pie truffles from Godiva

Pecan Pie Truffles

Quick question: what's even better than crunchy, gooey pecan pie? Answer: pecan pie enrobed in Godiva milk chocolate. These pecan pie truffles  are made with roasted pecans caramelized with brown sugar, and are individually foil-wrapped in boxes of five.

Godiva 13.00

Petit fours from Dean and Deluca

Rose and Passionfruit Petit Fours

The roses of summer may be gone, but their beauty has been preserved for the chilly season. Dean and Deluca's delicate petit fours have four sweet little layers of vanilla white cake spread with alternating layers of a rose and passionfruit ganache. Each tiny cake is cloaked in white chocolate and topped with a crystallized rose petal.

Dean and Deluca 55.00

Brandy-infused chocolate figs from La Tienda

Dark Chocolate Fig Bonbons

Imported from Spain, these unique sweets begin with tender young figs, which are then filled on the inside with a velvety dark chocolate mousse tinged with real brandy. The whole fig is then robed in even more dark chocolate and sealed individually to keep them as fresh as the day they were picked.

La Tienda 19.99

Key lime pears from Recchiuti

Key Lime Pears

Fall's best fruit gets a sinful makeover in the form of a dark chocolate bath. Wafer-thin pears, coated in Recchiuti's signature dark chocolate are kissed with the unique citrus flavor of key limes to create the company's most popular item.

Recchiuti 23.00

Pumpkin whoopie pies at Williams-Sonoma

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

The only thing better than how adorable these little pumpkin-shaped cakes look is how they taste. Each one of these spiced pumpkin whoopie pies is filled with a cloud of cream cheese and organic vanilla and made from scratch by a small bakery in Maine.

Williams-Sonoma 49.95 

Ganache Thanksgiving turkey from LA Burdick

Ganache Thanksgiving Turkey Favors

Lots of chocolate makers mold turkeys for the holiday season, but no one does it like this: your choice of dark chocolate piped with a clementine ganache or milk chocolate piped with pecan, bourbon and chestnut ganache. The tail feathers are even stuffed with almonds. Better get some of each.

LA Burdick 3.50

Can't decide whether to eat these treats or decorate with them? How about both! Pretty up a place setting at the Thanksgiving table by placing one chocolate or candy per guest; they'll be ogled and eaten. Order early to get these treats in time for Thanksgiving.

Chocolatiers aren't the only ones making treats inspired by the season. See what some of the country's best gelato-makers are up to.

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