congratulations....

become a chocolatier!

if you can't make it to our factory shop, everyone who orders cocoa bean or skelligs chocolates online from http://www.skelligschocolate.com/ will be automatically entered into the competition. so those of you stuck in jobs over the summer or unable to leap on the next flight, train or boat will still get a chance to win this brilliant prize!

if you are planing to come to kerry over the summer this is when we are open:

july-august 2009

monday –friday
from 10.00 until 17.00.

saturday & sunday
from 12.00 until 17.00




bring a picnic and your swimming togs and enjoy chocolate on the beach.

chocolate melting pot

just want to say a big thank you to everyone we met at the temple bar chocolate festival on sunday. wouldn't you know that the day they held the chocolate market would be the hottest day of the summer so far! but despite a few melty chocolates the weather certainly lent to the carnival atmosphere of the occasion. it was great to see so many people out enjoying the sunshine and the different offerings from all the irish chocolate makers.we were suprised by how many people turned up and so apologies for our initial fluster and disorganisation but hopefully we got that under control and anyone who wanted a taste of the chocolates got one. the cocoa bean bars went down a storm, my recommendation for enjoying the lime and black pepper with a glass of chilled chardonnay obviously appealed to a lot of parched chocoholics as it was our best seller.there were some great suggestions too for the invent a flavour competition, we are currently shortisting our 5 favourite to put to the test in the kitchen before choosing our winner, keep an eye out here for the results of our experiments, thank you to everybody who entered!

i know the temple bar cultural trust has already got plans underway for a bigger and better chocolate event next autumn, all i can say is that if it is even a patch on this year's festival it is well worth turning out for.

temple bar chocolate festival

we are very excited about the up and coming chocolate festival in dublin's temple bar. billed as 'a celebration of tasting, making and discovering chocolate!' who can fail to get excited. if you are around dublin between the 25th and 27th of july be sure to pop down to the temple bar area for get a taste of all things chocolate. there will be varied programme of events including films, talks and tastings, check out http://www.templebar.ie/ for more information.

the chocolate fair on the sunday afternoon (12pm-4pm, meeting house square)is bound to be the highlight though because cocoa bean chocolate co and skelligs chocolate co will be there with a whole lot of tasters and products to get your hands on!

we will also be running a competition at the festival to come up with a fabulous new flavour for the cocoa bean bar range. the winning flavour will be produced in a limited edition range for sale on the cocoa bean/ skelligs website with all profits going to the winner's chosen charity. so get your thinking caps on and my taste buds tingling.....

do come down to temple bar if you get a chance; it will be a chocoholics dream.