The Cacao Embassy NZ

The Cacao Embassy NZ 🤎 Honouring Cacao growing communities
🤲🏽 Sharing the magic of Pacific Cacao to NZ & beyond

News from The Cacao Embassy NZ 🤎This week, The Cacao Embassy NZ is closing its doors.Over the past couple of years, we'v...
07/09/2026

News from The Cacao Embassy NZ 🤎

This week, The Cacao Embassy NZ is closing its doors.

Over the past couple of years, we've had the privilege of bringing Pacific cacao into daily rituals across Aotearoa. We have genuinely valued working with all of our suppliers, customers and collaborators, and we deeply appreciate the trust and commitment you have given us. It's been an absolute privilege to work with all of you.

This has been so much more than a business. It's been a bridge between beautiful growing communities in PNG, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands – and the people here in Aotearoa who enjoy cacao every day.

Our online store will remain open until this Friday 11th September.

To everyone who shared a cup with us, ordered our cacao, or joined us on this journey – thank you. What we built together stays with us, even as this chapter closes.

Watch this space as we each move into our own expressions to keep Pacific Cacao flowing in NZ.

Ngā mihi nui,
Mark, Jeff & Ngawai

01/09/2026

Still time to catch our winter sale – 15% off everything, no code required*

A few things have already sold out, but there's still plenty to love:

🌿 100% Pure Solomon Islands Cacao Paste
🌿 100% Pacific Pure Cacao Paste
🌿 1kg PNG Cacao Butter
🌿 PNG Vanilla Beans
🌿 Weave Cacao Couverture Chocolate

If you've been meaning to try something new, or just want to keep your daily cacao going through the colder months, now's the moment. Stock up while it's there.

Link in bio – discount already applied at checkout.

*Retail only – wholesale not included.

24/08/2026

Our winter sale is still going – but some things are selling out fast!

15% off everything*, no code needed. Just head to the link in bio and it's already applied.

Still available and very much worth grabbing:

🌿 100% Pure Solomon Islands Cacao Paste — rich, complex, Pacific flavour
🌿 100% Pacific Pure Cacao Paste — your daily ritual, sorted
🌿 1kg PNG Cacao Butter — pure, versatile, deeply nourishing
🌿 PNG Vanilla Beans — incredible flavour, fresh from PNG
🌿 Weave Cacao Couverture Chocolate — for the bakers and chocolatiers 

Winter is a great time to keep the cupboard stocked with beautiful Pacific cacao. 

Shop via the link in bio 👀

*Retail only – wholesale not included

18/08/2026

Don't forget – we're currently offering 15% off all cacao products on our online store! ☕

Our cacao is best prepared on a stovetop using a pan and a whisk. HOWEVER, if you're on the go and don't have the tools, here's an alternate method... 

Chop your cacao extra fine and put it in a jug or tea pot, then pour on boiling water and leave it for five minutes. Give it a whizz with a milk frother et voilà – does the job nicely! 🤎

15% off everything* – no code required

Shop at thecacaoembassy.nz (link in bio)

*Retail only - wholesale not included

Winter is the best time to stock up on cacao. How convenient, then, that everything in our online store is 15% off right...
10/08/2026

Winter is the best time to stock up on cacao. How convenient, then, that everything in our online store is 15% off right now! 🙌

More cacao in the cupboard means more mornings sorted. Grab a bag of Pacific paste, try a blend you've been curious about, or stock up on our cacao butter, powder or nibs.

Whatever your daily ritual looks like, now's a good time to keep it going. ☕

15% off everything – no code required

Shop at thecacaoembassy.nz

*Retail only – wholesale not included

05/08/2026

Cacao Truffles 🤎

Four ingredients, one saucepan – so simple!

Our 100% Cacao Paste is stone-ground from Pacific beans, and these simple truffles let the flavour and Pacific connection truly shine. Equally delicious and nutritious – keep a batch on hand for afternoon boosts and a new daily ritual. 

INGREDIENTS 🥛 (makes roughly 12 truffles)

180 g 100% Cacao Paste, finely chopped
180 ml milk (dairy or plant-based)
4 Tbsp honey (or agave syrup)
4 Tbsp Cacao Powder, sieved 

METHOD 👩‍🍳

1. Add the Cacao Paste, milk and honey to a medium-sized saucepan and heat until almost boiling. Whisk together until totally smooth.

2. Pour the mixture into a bowl, cover, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

3. Scoop out 1 tablespoon at a time of your chilled mixture. Roll into balls (with clean hands!) and then roll the balls in cocoa powder. 

4. Put all your truffles on a plate (or in tupperware) and chill again until ready to serve. 

📷 Luke Owen Smith

22/07/2026

100% Cacao Paste with Maca ☕

This paste is made from activated cacao nibs, crafted by the Women of the Solomon Islands, infused with medicinal quantities of activated Maca powder (only the best from Peru), and formed into a potent powerful cacao paste for daily ceremony and upliftment.

These two superfoods, Cacao & Maca, truly are a powerhouse when crafted pure, for mental upliftment. Oonagh travelled to Peru to spend time with maca to say thank you and at that point knew that one day she would create a potent cacao paste with Cacao & Maca so many could enjoy the powerful synergistic support of these two ancient medicines. 🌱

As part of Oonagh's journey, Cacao and Maca supported her after the Christchurch earthquakes when she suffered from PTSD which included depression and anxiety. 

30gs per day is the recommended daily dosage, made as a drink with either water or your favourite milk. Add a spoonful of honey if you like a little sweetness. 

When you purchase your block of this 100% Cacao Paste we will include a recipe.

Shop online 👉 link in bio

There's something about seeing cacao in its natural environment that moves us deeply. 🌿🍫We're delighted to share these b...
14/07/2026

There's something about seeing cacao in its natural environment that moves us deeply. 🌿🍫

We're delighted to share these beautiful photos by our friend Luke Owen Smith – taken during our trip to Papua New Guinea in April – where Jeff, Mark, Oonagh and the team spent time in cacao-growing communities across the East Sepik region.

Cacao is such a magical fruit. The colours, the shapes, the extraordinary range of flavours hiding inside each pod. And behind every one of those pods, a farmer and a community with a story worth knowing.

Spending time at the source – amongst the trees, the people and the culture – is a reminder of why we do what we do. Cacao is not just an ingredient. It's a connection. 🤎

There's a reason so many people make cacao their daily ritual. ☕️Cacao occupies its own category. No coffee jitters; no ...
07/07/2026

There's a reason so many people make cacao their daily ritual. ☕️

Cacao occupies its own category. No coffee jitters; no overly sweet hot chocolate instead, something grounding, steady, and genuinely nourishing.

Pure Pacific cacao contains theobromine rather than high levels of caffeine, which means the energy it gives you doesn't spike and crash. Most people notice clearer thinking, lifted mood, and a kind of calm focus that carries through the morning. 🤎

30g a day is a good place to start. Some people work up to 50g. Whisked into hot water, maybe a little honey – that's all it takes.

The ritual matters too. Taking five minutes to calmly make a cup; hold it, drink it slowly – that moment becomes the centre of your day.

If you've been curious about making cacao a daily practice, now's a great time to start.

Shop here... https://thecacaoembassy.nz/collections/all

30/06/2026

Take your ritual with you. ☕

Into the bush, down to the beach, wherever the morning takes you. Pacific cacao travels well, and somehow tastes even better in the bush.

Something that happens when you drink cacao outside. The smell of the trees, the cold air, the ground under your feet. It reminds you that this drink comes from the earth – from rich Pacific soils in the rainforest – and the hands of people who know their land deeply. Out in nature, that connection is easier to feel. 🤎

Fill your flask with cacao and see where the day leads.

🌿 Shop via the link in bio

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