Barefoot Chocolatini

11/23/2024

There’s still time to RSVP today! 🍫🏃‍♀️🏆 📱 516-300-2221 See you tmrw! ♥️😊

11/20/2024

We are in love with cacao… you may call it an obsession.

11/18/2024

Join us for a Chocolate Tasting with Barefoot Chocolatini at in Hawaiian Paradise Park this Saturday, November 23rd 5pm.

RSVP required as there are limited spaces and limited chocolate available.

Can’t wait to see you there and share this seasons chocolates with you and yours!

Purchasing chocolates for gifts, holiday celebrations or for your own chocolate stash is highly encouraged.

Mahalo!!

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✨Mahalo to Renata Langner for hosting a delightful evening! ✨

11/12/2024

Where do cacao beans come from? Let’s hear it!

10/10/2024

Started a fresh batch of chocolate tonight 🍫🫶🏼🍫

06/13/2024

Barefoot Chocolatini handmade dark chocolates 🍫 🪵

05/29/2024

Fun fact: A lot of home based bean to bar chocolate makers temper their chocolate during the early morning hours when temperatures and humidity is the lowest.

And yes, I woke up and started tempering chocolate at 5am. Now time for a mermaid swim and onward with the rest of my day!

Send a message if you’d like to taste this delicious batch of 70 percent!

Made with big island, Hawaii cacao from bean to bar! Thank you to the FARMERS!! Clean pure chocolatey goodness you can feel good about!

05/16/2024

lfg

AN incredible W***y Wonka inspired factory, which will pump out chocolates from a towering pink castle, is coming into life. If you ever dreamed of visiting the iconic confectionery, then you might…

05/12/2024

{from an article linked below}

What does this mean for chocolate bars?
Chocolate prices are often rising. When Hershey and Mondelez, which own brands like Cadbury and Toblerone, reported earnings recently, price fluctuations were a big topic of discussion.

Mondelez said it raised prices about 6 percent in the first three months of the year, and Hershey about 5 percent, and both said they would be willing to raise prices further if the cost of cocoa remained high. The two companies said that their profits increased by double compared to the previous year as consumers continued to buy their products despite the rise in prices.

Luca Zaramella, Mondelez's chief financial officer, told analysts on April 30 that the market was “overreacting” and that it would likely correct itself in the latter half of the year.

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However, he said: “It is very important for us to prepare for the possibility that cocoa will remain at these levels.” Zaramilla said Mondelez could protect its profits by trying to secure large cocoa orders during market volatility or reducing costs of other inputs, such as ingredients.

Some “bean-to-bar” chocolate makers, who have always paid a higher price for their cocoa from small farmers, say they have a different experience.

“The price of premium cocoa has never changed,” said Dan Maloney, who runs Soul Cocoa, a chocolate company in the Bronx, with his two brothers. “It's as if the wholesale price is catching up with the premium price, but we've always paid the premium.”

Mr Maloney said he was already paying between $9,000 and $12,000 for a ton of premium cocoa, which he sources from farmers around the world, especially in Latin America and Africa. Sol Cacao charges $8 for a 1.86-ounce bar, while a four-ounce Hershey's bar costs about $2.

Mr Maloney said he imposed these prices to ensure the quality of the product and ethical treatment of farmers in the industry, which has a history of exploiting children and enslaving people for labour.

“They market chocolate as candy,” Maloney said of the major manufacturers. “We market it as a luxury, something to savor, like a bottle of wine.”

Some cocoa farmers see buyers like Mr. Maloney as allies, protecting them from the whims of financial markets.

Gustavo Mendeneros, a cocoa farmer who leads a producer cooperative in Tumaco, Colombia, said farmers tend to prefer small buyers when production is low because they buy smaller quantities of beans at a higher price.

“The big company guarantees volume, but it does not recognize quality,” Mendineros said. “Young buyers recognize quality, and they pay dearly for it.”

The crop failure, followed by a wave of financial speculation, has sent cocoa prices plummeting...

05/04/2024

Barefoot Chocolatini is hard at work to continually bring the best knowledge to the table as we elevate the Hawaii cacao and chocolate industry across the Hawaiian islands.

Soooo stoked to see my cacao friends excel and to be a part of this historic timeline in the making.

Believe in yourself and the power of your dreams…

With a pure heart, clear intentions and daily consumption of cacao and chocolate, anything is possible!!

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04/30/2024

Hilo cacao and chocolate expo 2024!!! We all worked so hard to put this together and bring our best cacao farmers and chocolate makers of big island Hawaii all together for this year’s amazing event!! Over 1k people came thru, pounds and pounds of chocolate were sampled and the kids got to see where chocolate really comes from!

I presented alongside my friend Alex of Kokoleka Puna on TEMPERING and had a blast! Contributed to the cacao farm panel conversation and concerns with black pod rot and orchard management. Spoke on the chocolate making panel with and Kololeka Puna!

Was blessed to meet and spend time with some of my fav small businesses like

So stoked and grateful to see this amazing community and Industry grow!!

I’m committed to bringing you the best cacao and chocolate possible. Here to help and satiate your cacao and chocolatey needs!!

04/30/2024

Hilo cacao and chocolate expo, big island chocolate festival, Hawaii cacao and chocolate conference … the marathon just keep getting BETTER!!!!! See you TOMORROW O’ahu!! Bringing chocolate and excited to see new and old friends 🥰🥰🥰 reach out to meet up and pick up some chocolate! 🍫🍫🍫

04/12/2024

Join Us for a Chocolate Celebration!

Hawaiʻi Island chocolate has an excellent reputation for its high quality and distinctive flavor profiles reflecting the unique terroirs of our farms. Bean-to-bar chocolate makers in Hawaiʻi and on the mainland have won national and international awards for chocolate made from Hawaiʻi Island cacao.
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Experience for yourself Hawaiʻi Island’s chocolate excellence and the journey from tree to bar at the 2024 Hilo Cacao & Chocolate Expo. Take a tastebud tour of the Expo and enjoy free samples of Hawai’i Island grown cacao and chocolate that local producers and chocolate makers will be showcasing and offering for sale!

04/09/2024

Did you know the 3rd Annual Hilo Cacao & Chocolate Expo is the FIRST and ONLY purely local hawaii cacao and chocolate event in the state/country/world?!

THIS WEEKEND

HILO HAWAIIAN HOTEL
71 BANYAN DRIVE
HILO, HAWAII

SATURDAY 9-3:30pm
SUNDAY 8:30-4pm

MAHALO to the cacao trees, the ʻaina, the weather, the machines, the hands and the taste buds that make this magical food (cacao and chocolate) available to us here.

STOKED beyond measure.

May your bodies be nourished with the miraculous health benefits of cacao and your inner fire be lit up with love!

04/09/2024

THIS WEEKEND! oh my! CHOCOLATE LOVERS UNITE! lol

Humbled and grateful to be a part of our growing industry in Hawaii and volunteering for the board to help put on this event!

I am doing my best to promote the good stuff; what's best for the farmers, the planet and the chocolate lover :)