Mother’s Day Chocolate Truffle Making Classes
Sunday, May 20th • 1-4 pm
Madre Chocolate Shop in Kailua
Want to learn how to make some beautiful chocolate truffles for your valentine’s sweetie with local, raw, & vegan chocolate? This is your chance. We’re offering this great truffle making class, where our head chocolatier, Kristen Klassen will be leading us through these delectable recipes step by step so you can tackle this seemingly difficult chocolate confections with ease in your kitchen and impress your friend and lover:
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• Coconut truffles with maple cumin candied pepitas
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• Vanilla agave truffles with toasted sesame seeds
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• Almond butter truffles dipped in 70% Raw Hamakua couverture
Students will go home with the three recipes we teach in class and 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 when ever possible!
We’re offering a class before Mother’s Day so you can learn to make delicious truffles for your mother, and another class after Mother’s Day so you can get the class as a wonderful gift for your mother to attend. It’s a win-win for all!
20A Kainehe St. & Kailua Rd • Kailua • $50
Madre Shop Pau Hana
Last Friday of every month • 4:30-6 PM
Next Pau Hana is May 25th.
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!
20A Kainehe St. • Kailua • Free
Bean-to-Bar Chocolate-Making Class
Sunday, May 27, June 24, July 29 • 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Our shop in Kailua, O’ahu
Learn a little about the history of chocolate, enjoy a chocolate tasting, and find out how chocolate is made. Covers the many varieties of cocoa beans and chocolate, Aztec and Mayan uses of chocolate, and how to make your own chocolate bars from the bean. Varieties of chocolate bars, whether milk or dark, raw or roasted, single origin or blended, and fruity or nutty are increasing exponentially. Learn how to look at the ingredients and sort out the tasty healthy ones from the rest. Everyone participates in making delicious chocolate bars from scratch in the class. Take recipes and a bar of hand-made chocolate home with you.
Contact us with any questions about the class and register below for your selected date.
20A Kainehe St. • Kailua • $50
O’ahu Cacao Farm & Chocolate Factory Tour
Sunday, June 10 • 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Windward O’ahu Cacao Farms & Our shop in Kailua, O’ahu
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. Register below.
20A Kainehe St. • Kailua • $30
Hilo Bean-to-Bar Chocolate-Making Class
Sunday, May 27, June 24, July 29 • 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Our shop in Kailua, O’ahu
Our first public chocolate making class in Hilo! Learn a little about the history of chocolate, enjoy a chocolate tasting, and find out how chocolate is made. Covers the many varieties of cocoa beans and chocolate, Aztec and Mayan uses of chocolate, and how to make your own chocolate bars from the bean. Varieties of chocolate bars, whether milk or dark, raw or roasted, single origin or blended, and fruity or nutty are increasing exponentially. Learn how to look at the ingredients and sort out the tasty healthy ones from the rest. Everyone participates in making delicious chocolate bars from scratch in the class. Take recipes and a bar of hand-made chocolate home with you. Since there’s so many cacao growers in Hilo, we’ll go over the basics of cacao cultivation & fermentation.
Contact us with any questions about the class and register below for your selected date.
Hilo near downtown • $50
Whiskey and Chocolate pairing for Father’s Day
Sunday, June 17th • 4:30-6 PM
OK, you’ve paired chocolate with wine, cigars, coffee and just about everything under the sun. Now, what’s left? Whiskey, of course! The caramely sweetness and peaty smokey flavor of the world’s best scotches, bourbons, and whiskeys make a great match for the complexity of chocolate, especially some of our robustly flavored chocolates like Chipotle Allspice, and Hamakua Pink Peppercorn and Smoked Salt. Nat & Dave of Madre Chocolate and Liane of The Wine Stop will guide you on which whiskey origins go best with which chocolate origins, while tasting some of The Wine Stop's best whiskeys with Madre Chocolate's fine chocolate bars. It’s sure to make a fun & merry evening.
Please call the Wine Stop at 808-946-3707 to register.
The Wine Stop • 1809 South King Street,
Honolulu • $30
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 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.
Madre Chocolate Gift Certificate for any occasion
Good for any chocolate or classes we offer
Not sure what your favorite chocolate lover might like or when their available for a class? Just get them one of these convenient gift certificates that will allow them to pick out exactly what they want. After purchase you can enter their email and have the certificate emailed to them so they can use it online, or you can print it out so you can hand it to them personally. Make a your chocophile’s imagination run wild with possibilities of bars they can sample and classes to teach them the ins and outs of chocolate making. Get a $25 certificate so they can get a selection of our different delicious origin chocolates, get a $50 certificate so they can sign up for one of the great bean-to-bar chocolate making classes we offer every month on O’ahu, or get them a $100 certificate so they can have a class and a chocolate sampling!
Available for anywhere from $5-1000, selectable when adding to cart
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•Pick the “Email Gift Certificate” on the left if you want to print the gift certificate yourself to send to someone or have it email to them.
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•Pick the “Hardcopy Gift Certificate” if you want us to print and mail a hardcopy of the elegant certificate for an additional $5.
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If you want to see a preview of our teaching, please check out these videos and interviews:
Foraging in the Lower East Side.
The strange effects of the Miracle Fruit on your taste buds.
Interview on KCRW's Good food radio show about chocolate making, 44 minutes into the show, if you want to learn more about the process.
