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It’s that time of year again and time is running out.  Voting deadline is Monday, July 19th, so please VOTE TODAY!   There are tons of categories.  Obviously we hope that you’ll pick Holy Cacao for best trailer and sweets/goodies.  One other suggestion is for 501 (C) 3:  Please pick Big Brothers & Big Sisters.  Ellen [...]

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 [...]

Well, technically there are 6… it’s delicious! But we found this video and thought it laid out nicely the benefits for women (and frankly, guys benefit too). We frequently get asked why we use dark chocolate instead of milk. Well, health reasons are a big part of it. Milk chocolate contains a tremendous amount of [...]

Well, good and bad problem, huh?  Thanks to all of you who hit the site.  The Food Network even caught HostGator off guard as we had pre-warned them of the expected spike in traffic.  As our web developers are hard at work rebuilding the cart and stabilizing the web store, please feel free to shoot [...]

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 [...]

David Ansel is widely known in Austin as the Soup Peddler for his business of soup delivery via bicycle.  He is also widely recognized as one of Austin’s top bloggers and writers on the subject of food.  He has recently posted a story to Edible Austin that I’m sure many of you will enjoy.  It [...]

Don’t act like you didn’t know this would be coming at some point.  Our energetic, tirelessly baking and ever-passionate-about-their-balls staff has come up with yet another inventive treat for you.  Co-created by Jessica Zimmerman and Cait Ellison, we invite you to try our Flamingo Balls.  The ladies wanted to call them Pink Flamingo Balls, but [...]

Howdy all!  This may be a short notice but if you are looking for something fun to do today, come on down to the South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery and Holy Cacao.   Mo Rocca (The Daily Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and more) and a new show for the Cooking Channel, Foodography, will be in [...]

For me growing up, a child of the 70′s, there was one defining story of chocolate…Willy Wonka.  Ever since then, Gene Wilder has been one of my favorite actors.  Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, etc. are movies that I can watch without fatigue.  It’s so perfect that Ellen and I ended up starting our [...]

Ok, while it’s true that we cannot claimed to have invented these, our Holy Cacao teammate, Jessica Zimmerman, has created our version.  Inspired by our latest frustrations with local business owners trying to influence the government to police their competition, our best response comes from food.  In the words of Issac Hayes, “Suck on my [...]