Come celebrate Holy Cacao’s recent Food Network appearance on Kid in a Candy Store with a special screening of the segment.  We will follow it with the classic, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

When: Tuesday, August 3rd at 7PM
Where: South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery- 1311 South 1st Street (covered seating area)
What: A Benefit for Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a local nonprofit that helps Austin’s homeless.
Admission: AT LEAST one bottle of water that will be donated to Mobile Loaves & Fishes.
FREE!: Candy Cake Ball specially created for this event!  One per attendee.
Win: One of the admission tickets will be The Golden Ticket (a’la Willy Wonka).  The bearer of that lucky ticket will receive a Dozen Cake Balls FREE each month for ONE YEAR!!

Come to the South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery (1311 S. 1st Street, Austin, TX) Tuesday, August 3rd from 7PM to 10PM for a PRIVATE EVENT where we will be showing our Food Network debut, “Kid in a Candy Store” followed by the classic (Gene Wilder original) “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”.  Please RSVP so we can be prepared because we are going to give away one FREE candy-themed Cake Ball to every person with a ticket.   Plus, ONE LUCKY Golden Ticket Holder will be awarded the Grand Prize:  ONE DOZEN Free Cake Balls per month for an entire year!  Torchy’s Tacos and Man Bites Dog will also be offering specials to complete the special evening.  So, how do you get a ticket to this PRIVATE EVENT?  Simply bring at least one bottle of water which we will donate to Mobile Loaves & Fishes, a non-profit social outreach ministry for the homeless and indigent working poor in Austin.

To RSVP, please check out our Facebook Event Page  here or simply email us:  orders AT theholycacao DOT com.

From Alexander the Great enjoying frozen ices flavored with honey and nectar to Montezuma sending runners into the mountain to add snow to his fresh drinking chocolates, humanity has had a craving for frozen treats throughout history.  Nothing better satisfies that desire than ice cream.  Regardless of your political viewpoint, I think we can all agree on one of the greatest Presidential decisions of modern times:  Ronald Reagan, in 1984, making the third Sunday in July, International Ice Cream Day.  We have used Blue Bell Ice Cream from day one.  Not only is it the freshest, most flavorful ice cream that we could get our hands on but the company culture and history is a true Texas story.  If you haven’t yet been to Brenham and taken the factory tour, we highly recommend it.  It’s there that you will learn their rich history and how the ice cream that you eat today was grass yesterday.  Yep, they believe in freshness.

At Holy Cacao, we had an idea born from making our Cake Balls.  See, we believe that the best Cake Balls aren’t made as the result of a bad cake.  We believe that you start with the cake.  Make it from scratch with the best local ingredients possible.  Then, we cut off the edges of the cake, since the most moist and decadent part of the cake is the center, and continue on with our Cake Ball process that you’ve read about here before.  Our dilemma was, “we can’t waste these cake edges!  They have to be good for something!!”.  So, one night as we were craving ice cream ourselves, we thought, “what if we mixed the cake and ice cream together?”.  We were having reminiscent thoughts to having bowls of cake and ice cream and fondly remembering the last bit of the bowl.  You know, the part where the ice cream has melted and has cake bits mixed in.  Well, that was always our favorite part!  And just like that…voila!  The birth of the Cake Shake had occurred.  Today we offer Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream and Dutch Chocolate mixed with either our Red Velvet Cake, Chocolate Cake, Wedding Cake or Carrot Cake.

Additionally, we have satisfied the modern Montezuma with our Frozen Hot Chocolate.  We start with our imported Swiss chocolate base (one of our few non-local ingredients), mix in milk, cream and a few other ingredients until it melts into our super rich and luxurious Hot Drinking Chocolate.  Then we mix it with Blue Bell’s Dutch Chocolate Ice Cream and crushed ice to produce a drink that Montezuma himself would run to the mountain tops for…the Holy Cacao Frozen Hot Chocolate.  He may prefer our Mexican variety which infuses a simple syrup (made locally from scratch) based on ancho chilles, cayenne and cinnamon.  You might prefer the Peppermint Patty which infuses fresh peppermint into our Frozen Hot Chocolate.    All of them beat a plain old chocolate shake any day.

Regardless of your preference, Holy Cacao is a great place to celebrate International Ice Cream Day.  For more on the day and the history of ice cream, check out this well written story here.

Thanks for taking the time to vote!

Best of Austin Chronicle Poll 2010-  Deadline MONDAY JULY 19

Hey friends, here’s a shameless plug:  The Food Network is looking for America’s Favorite FoodTruck.  Now, why we know we’re young’uns and all, we expect we’re a little different than your average truck food vendor.  Sourcing mostly local ingredients to make our confections daily from scratch, we offer up Cake Balls on a Stick and Cake Shakes (both recently featured on the Food Network’s “Kid in a Candy Store“), European Style Hot Chocolate, a Frozen Hot Chocolate, S’mores Kits with marshmallows made from scratch (what other food truck let’s you roast S’mores on an open campfire??)!

So, we’re asking for your support!  It looks like a great opportunity to earn some dollars (which we promise to throw right back at new product development- we’re already working on some cool NEW products for y’all).

Just click on the link here to nominate us…and thanks for your continued support!

See Holy Cacao debut on the Food Network tonight, 7/12/2010 at 7PM Central. The show, “Kid in a Candy Store” is hosted by Adam Gertler. The episode, “Take the Cake” features businesses around the country that have done something out of the ordinary with cake. Adam became interested in us for our Cake Balls on a Stick and of course, our Cake Shake. He will also visit folks who make a deep fried cupcake sundae, the Hostess Sno-Ball factory and more! We’re excited to be in such good company! Adam was a real treat (pun intended) to work with. Not to steal the magic of TV, but the 5-6 minute segment we’ve been told that we will be in took about 14+ hours of production time! The ever-resilient Adam Gertler easily downed 20+ Cake Balls and 4 Cake Shakes in that time!! Now, how about y’all taking his lead and start chowing down??!!

Thanks Soup Peddler!

Click here for the story at edibleaustin.com

Pink Lemonade Cake mixed with our cream frosting that has had pink lemonade infused in for an extra kick.  The ball has then been dipped in pink chocolate and topped with crushed Lemon Drops.  It’s a wonderful blend of sweet cake and refreshing lemonade.  We think it’s the perfect way to kick off Austin’s summertime.

They are available for $2/each, 3 for $5 or in our dozen packages.