{"id":1455,"date":"2014-01-16T22:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T02:24:42","slug":"santa-cruz-chocolate-festival-2014-heres-what-you-get-to-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival 2014: Here\u2019s what you get to taste!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snake & Butterfly Chocolate is a vendor at the 2014 Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

The 2014 Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival<\/a> is Sunday (1-4pm, Cocoanut Grove) with more than 25 vendors.<\/p>\n

Benefiting re-entry student scholarships via the UC Santa Cruz Women\u2019s Club, the chocolate festival is a popular event you don\u2019t want to miss! Read more in this overview article<\/a>, and keep reading for vendor information and some chocolate sample details to whet your appetite!<\/p>\n

Watch for a few more sample details to be published tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Snake & Butterfly Chocolate<\/strong><\/a> is an award-winning South Bay company that refines organic, fair trade chocolate from the bean. Snake & Butterfly makes small batch artisan chocolate using traditional stone melangers, using three basic ingredients: cacao beans, cocoa butter and sugar. They do not use emulsifiers or artificial ingredients. This chocolate is then used to create plain and flavored bars, truffles and confections — many suitable for vegans. At the Chocolate Festival, Snake & Butterfly will be sampling a variety of plain and flavored bars (Salt & Almond, Ginger & Nib, Bacon Toffee, Cherry & Chili), truffles, and caramels. The entire chocolate line will be for sale, too. Snake & Butterfly has recently opened their first retail location in Historic Downtown Campbell, where you can find all their creations as well as a collection of other local organic artisan products.<\/p>\n

Original Sin Desserts & Catering<\/a> was founded by UCSC graduate Tanya DeCell. Original Sin will be serving Oaxacan black Mole made with both Guittard and Scharffenberger chocolate. As with all of DeCell\u2019s food, it is made from scratch using all-natural ingredients (locally sourced and organic wherever possible). Original Sin caters both private and business events, with a special emphasis on food and wine pairings.\u00a0 DeCell is the primary chef for several wineries including Silver Mountain, Soquel, Sante Arcangeli and Wargin Wines.<\/p>\n

Lifestyle Culinary Arts<\/a>, a fabulous local company (read article<\/a>)\u00a0 who participates at the festival every year, will have this wonderful treat available:
\n\u2022 Chocolate Mousse Topped Pretzel with Banana Caramel<\/p>\n

India Joze<\/a>, a restaurant that serves delicious food, is attending the festival for the first time and will offer:
\n\u2022 A Filipino pork dish with cocoa sauce, plus (tentatively) chocolate chai and \u201cwok roca\u201d<\/p>\n

Alfaro Winery<\/a>, who also participated last year when wine was included for the first time, will pour:
\n\u2022 2012 “A” Estate Chardonnay and 2012 Gimelli Vineyards Old Vine Zinfandel<\/p>\n

The Details<\/strong>
\nSanta Cruz Chocolate Festival
\nCocoanut Grove, 400 Beach Street, Santa Cruz 95060
\nSunday, January 19, 2014 from 1-4pm<\/p>\n

Follow me on Twitter @santacruzfoodie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2014 Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival is Sunday (1-4pm, Cocoanut Grove) with more than 25 vendors. Benefiting re-entry student scholarships via the UC Santa Cruz Women\u2019s Club, the chocolate festival is a popular event you don\u2019t want to miss! Read … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33,80,3],"tags":[129,10,72,235,607,70,375,683,43,7,432,281,684],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits","category-events","category-food-food-news","category-restaurants","tag-alfaro-winery","tag-benefit","tag-chocolate","tag-family-friendly","tag-family-friendly-activities","tag-india-joze","tag-lifestyle-culinary-arts","tag-original-sin-desserts-catering","tag-restaurants-2","tag-santa-cruz","tag-santa-cruz-chocolate-festival","tag-santa-cruz-restaurants","tag-snake-butterfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}