HAWAIIAN-GROWN CACAO MONTH
FEBRUARY 2013
Presented By:
Special Events Hawaii on behalf of the Hawai`i Chocolate Festival
* Calendar subject to change without notice. Revised 01_17_13
Feb 3, 2013
(Sunday)
MADRE CHOCOLATE – MOLE MAKING CLASS
Mole, a savory sauce for meats and vegetables, is one of the most ancient forms of chocolate. From the Oaxacan mole negro to the famous mole poblano of Puebla state, Mexico, many of these delicious sauces, almost like Mexican curries, may seem complex and esoteric, but they can be made easily from ingredients readily available in Hawaii. We’ll step you through at least three of Mexico’s amazing diversity of mole dishes to see, showing you simple tricks to make these complex dishes readily accessible at home so you can prep each of the recipes you take home even on a week night. A delicious way to taste your way around Mexico!
20 Kainehe Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone: (808) 377-6440. www.madrechocolate.com
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Feb 3, 2013
(Sunday)
MADRE CHOCOLATE – Design Your Own Chocolate Class
Having something you would love to know about chocolate? Want the perfect holiday or birthday gift? For a minimum of 10 people or $500 we can put together a custom chocolate class for you at our shop in Kailua, O’ahu or at your home on O’ahu or Hawai‘i. We have done private classes for bachelorette parties, wedding parties, local ag events, and children’s school groups. We can cover topics from wine, beer, whiskey, coffee, & cigar pairings with chocolate, delicious local chocolate truffle & bon bon making, chocolate history, single origin chocolate tastings, chocolate drinks from around the world, and bean-to-bar chocolate making. Turn all of your friends & family into Willy Wonka for an afternoon! Please contact us with any questions and to setup a class.
20 Kainehe Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone: (808) 377-6440. www.madrechocolate.com
Feb 9,2013
(Saturday)
KAHALA MALL – “FALL IN LOVE WITH KAHALA MALL”
The Hawai`i Chocolate Festival Roadshow goes to Kahala Mall. Enter to win tickets to the Hawai’i Chocolate Festival Plus, sample Hawaiian grown chocolate, get free chocolate recipe cards and learn about this diversified and sustainable agricultural crop. For additional information visit kahalamallcenter.com. 4211 Waialae Avenue #33, Honolulu, HI 96816. Phone: (808) 732-7736
11:00am – 2:00pm
Feb 10, 2013
(Sunday)
WINDWARD MALL – SPECIAL VALENTINE’S WEEKEND FARMERS MARKET
The Hawai`i Chocolate Festival Roadshow goes to Windward Mall. Enter to win tickets to the Hawai’i Chocolate Festival and sample Hawaiian grown chocolate, get free chocolate recipe cards and learn about this diversified and sustainable agricultural crop. Plus, Windward Mall will host a special Valentine’s Weekend Farmers Market where some market vendors will also feature chocolate items! For additional information visit windwardmall.com. 46-56 Kamehameha Highway, Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744. Phone: (808) 235-1143
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Feb 10, 2013
(Sunday)
MADRE CHOCOLATE – Truffle Making Class
Want to learn how to make some beautiful chocolate truffles for perfect holiday gifts with local, award-winning chocolate? This is your chance. We’re offering this great truffle making class, where our head chocolatier, Kristen Klassen will be leading us through delectable recipes step by step so you can tackle this seemingly difficult chocolate confections with ease in your kitchen and impress your friends and family. A sampling of truffles you will concoct in the class are:
• Coconut truffles with maple cumin candied pepitas
• Vanilla agave truffles with toasted sesame seeds
• Almond butter truffles dipped in 70% Raw Hamakua couverture
Students will go home with the three recipes we teach in class an a gift bag with each of the three flavors of truffles. Kristen has 15 years experience in the pastry kitchen & has worked in restaurants, hotels, bakeries, pastry shops and even in a Swiss chocolate factory. She always strives to use the best ingredients in her work and of course all natural and local whenever possible!
20 Kainehe Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone: (808) 377-6440. www.madrechocolate.com
2:00 pm- 5:00 pm
Feb 10 & 17, 2013
(Sunday)
MADRE CHOCOLATE – Cacao farm & chocolate factory tours
If you’ve ever wanted to see the entire process of chocolate making from start to end, this is the exact tour for you! We’ll take you to local organic cacao and diversified ag farm just 30 mins from our Kailua shop to see how the beautiful cacao tree produces its pods right off the trunk, learn how to tell when they’re ripe, taste the fresh sweet cacao pulp, help harvest cacao, and see how it’s fermented and dried. Then after an hour break for lunch at one of Kailua’s many great eateries, we’ll welcome you behind the scenes at our shop to roast, crack, & winnow your own cacao to make a traditional Mexican chocolate drink, grind and temper chocolate into bars for you to take home or dip delicious local fruit in our rich dark chocolate to eat on the spot. You’ll be ready to start your own cacao farm & bean-to-bar chocolate shop after this tour! Kids are very welcome on this educational & inspirational tour! Contact us with any questions and if you would like to arrange a tour for your group on another date. We are happy to plan school class tours by special arrangement. Lunch & transportation not included. We work with 2 cacao farms on Oahu, one in Waiahole that is beautiful and quite rugged and we don’t recommend for people who have trouble walking, and one on the North Shore that is further away from our shop, but is flat and more accessible. Registration required.
20 Kainehe Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone:(808) 377-6440. www.madrechocolate.com
10:30 am – 2:30 pm
Feb 14, 2013, 2013
(Thursday)
MADRE CHOCOLATE – Chocolate Tastings
Learn about the origins of chocolate and how it is made bean-to-bar in Hawai‘i by tasting it in 3 forms: the delicious lychee-tasting fruit juice of cacao, a fresh roasted cacao bean, and a flight of 5 of our most popular chocolate flavors. Finally, make your very own chocolate bar using Hawai‘i grown and made chocolate, choosing from a delicious selection of fruits, nuts and spices to flavor your bar, from toasted coconut to spicy chipotle pepper or Hawaiian sea salt. You will get to try Oahu’s award-winning chocolate and see how we make it, in this delicious, informative tour!
20 Kainehe Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone: (808) 377-6440. www.madrechocolate.com
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Feb 22, 2013, 2013
(Friday)
MADRE CHOCOLATE – Pau Hana
Have you ever wanted to see behind the scenes, taste what the mad scientists at Madre Chocolate are up to, see what new chocolate origins and flavors they are dreaming up in their Kailua shop? How about asking any question about chocolate pairing? Every last Friday of the month we are hosting a Pau Hana chocolate event where all you chocolate lovers are invited in for free to our Kailua shop to taste limited editions of the new single origin chocolates we have been working with like Indonesia, Vietnam, Venezuela, Waiahole, and Kona. We will have samples of new inclusion bars we are experimenting with like jaboticaba, jaguar cacao, and calamansi lime and if you bring in something you want to pair with chocolate (juice, wine, beer, whiskey, cheese) we would be happy to taste it and discuss with you which chocolate would taste great in combination with it. It is sure to be a fun, Friday post-work time to chat with your friends, eat great local chocolate, and explore new possibilities of chocolate combinations. Bring your friends, bring your family, bring a date.
20 Kainehe Street, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone: (808) 377-6440. www.madrechocolate.com
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
MONTHLY ONGOING ACTIVITIES:
HAWAIIAN BATH & BODY’S NORTH SHORE SOAP FACTORY TOUR See where the North Shore Soap Factory’s infamous Hawai`i Mint Chocolate Soap is made. The North Shore Soap Factory is located in the 60-foot-tall, cone-shaped building in the front of the Historic Waialua Sugar Mill. From inside the store, you can see their soap being handcrafted in small batches. Call to ensure the soap maker will be on premise usually mid-morning Monday through Saturday. For additional information, call 808-637- 8400 or visit www.hawaiianbathbody.com.
FOSTER BOTANICAL GARDEN TOUR See where some of Hawai’i’s earliest cacao trees were planted. In the 1850’s, Dr. Hillebrand re-introduced cacao into Honolulu at the Foster Botanical Garden. In 1853, Queen Kalama leased 4.6 acres of land to William Hillebrand, a German physician and botanist who built his home and planted trees on the site. During his stay, he introduced a number of plants to Hawaii, as well as deer and mynah birds. Many of the large trees growing today on the Upper Terrace were Hillebrand’s plantings. After 20 years Hillebrand returned to Germany, where he published Flora of the Hawaiian Islands in 1888. In 1884 the property was sold to Thomas R. Foster and his wife Mary E. Foster (Robinson), who continued to develop the garden as their home site. Upon her death in 1930, Mary Foster bequeathed the land and her home to the City and County of Honolulu, with the provision that the city accept and forever keep and properly maintain the (gardens) as a public and tropical park to be known and called Foster Park. Guided tours are offered at 1:00 p.m. on Monday through Saturday of each week. Reservations are suggested as tours are based on availability of volunteer docents. Other tours may be arranged upon request. For additional information, please call (808) 522-7066 or visit www.honolulu.gov/parks/hbg/fbg.htm.
MANOA CHOCOLATE HAWAII FACTORY TOUR
Manoa Chocolate is a bean-to-bar artisan chocolate company on Oahu, Hawaii. They are passionate about crafting quality chocolate in Hawaii while striving to produce zero waste. Please call for a tour or visit their website www.manoachocolate.com or in person at their retail store at 315 Uluniu Street, #203, Kailua, Hawaii 96734. Phone: (808) 262-6789
