DEL SOL Chocolate

12/19/2016

12/07/2016

Hope to see you at the VFC Holiday Open House this Friday! Wine, chocolate, ...........what could be better? I will be sampling cacao tea, roasted nibs, and my single origin chocolates, including many new bars and coconut cream truffles.

11/26/2016

"7 in 1" Small Business Saturday Nov 26th 1 - 7 pm. Stop by to shop six additional Coulee Region businesses: Deep Rooted Organics Tomato products; Ocooch Mtn Acres Maple Syrup; McKittrick Valley Honey; Del Sol Chocolates; Kickapoo Coffee; Kvarnstrom Bakery. Create your own "Taste of Wisconsin" Gift Basket!

10/30/2016

Batch # 148 in the works. Cacao: Maya Mountain Coop, from the Toledo District in Belize, a group of over 300 smallholder farmers with a mission of growing prosperous farming communities. Maya Mountain has a strong vision of social and environmental development, promoting reforestation and encouraging organic, sustainable agroforestry. Most of the farmers are Q'eqchi' and Mopan Maya, and rely upon cacao as their main cash crop to support their families.
This has been my favorite cacao to work with, as it has complex flavors, a real brightness that sends aromas of grape and cherry as it whirrs away in the melanger!
I hope you will pick some up soon at the Viroqua Food Coop, W***y St Coops, and Peoples Coop, among others. Your purchases are greatly appreciated, for they also support my family as well. :)

09/09/2016

Feeling like a proud mama, sending off my chocolate creations to San Francisco this morning; entering three bars into the Good Food Awards!! Three of my favorites: 70% Dark with Alto Beni, Bolivian beans; 70% Maya Mountain, Belize; and a Maple Sugar sweetened, (from Maple Valley Coop), 70% that has a special blend of beans. Safe travels, my dear ones. :)

08/18/2016

Thank you to my friends at Kickapoo Coffee and Kickapoo Cafe in Milwaukee for hosting the tasting event last Friday! We had a wonderful time tasting chocolate and coffee together in this beautiful space.

08/14/2016

08/04/2016

Friday, August 12th in Milwaukee.....

The event, held Friday August 12, is a good reason to leave work early.

05/04/2016

I am getting ready to begin Batch # 138, which will be a blend of two beans, originating from Hispaniola, and sweetened with Maple Valley Coop's maple sugar. For this deliciousness, I am combining a Dominican bean, from OKO Caribe, a group of small holder farmers in the San Francisco de Macoris region of the Dominican Republic, with one from Haiti. PISA, a group of 1500 cacao farmers in northern Haiti, includes 400 women farmers.

Lynn Kronschnabel has posted a new update!

03/13/2016

One of the important factors in choosing the cacao for Del Sol Chocolate is the impact on families and communities, and especially the empowerment of women. Maya Mountain Cacao of Belize is a certified Organic Coop in southern Belize, and I am proud to be crafting some fine chocolate with the cacao grown by these dedicated farmers.

12/01/2015

Your children will love these little milk chocolate (vegan!) Santas, and you can feel really responsible for giving them the best quality! They are made with organic powdered coconut milk, and cacao from Maya Mountain in southern Belize, an organic coop of 300 indigenous Mayan farmers. Available at the Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School's Holiday Faire, this weekend in Viroqua. Also, new...cacao tea!

09/18/2015

.......here you will find a fresh batch of maple sugar sweetened Del Sol Chocolate!

I will be sampling batch #124 Saturday at W***y St. Coop West in Middleton, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This is a wonderful blend of Dominican cacao, coming from La Red Guaconejo Coop and maple sugar from Maple Valley Coop, located in Cashton, WI. The chocolate has a rich nuttiness, subtle vanilla, and maple overtones, and of course.......is made with lots of love!