From Tree to Bar

Finest Hawaiian Chocolates. Locally made from locally grown Hawaiian Cacao.

The taste of Aloha - an exotic and unique flavour. Handcrafted with Love.

About Kokoleka

Chocolates made with Aloha

We handcraft small batches of Hawaiian Chocolates from Hawaiian Big Island grown Cacao. Directly from the bean of the Puna Jungle into our unique bars.

All ingredients we use are locally island grown & organic. Supporting our local farmers.

Come and visit our chocolate studios in Leilanai and Papaiko.

* Kokoleka means Chocolate

Chocolate Tasting

Taste the different exotic flavors from our variety of cocoa beans - roasted and naturally dried from our supplier farmers on the island.

Enjoy a manufacturing tour and tasting of Hawaiian chocolates in our tropical Kokoleka chocolate studio in Puna or directly at our Supplier farms Puna Gold Estates in Leilani and Hilo Sharks in Papaiko, north of Hilo.

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Workshop Chocolate Making

Learn how to create your own bars at home.

Bring your family and friends. Have fun with us and create your own unique signature pieces.

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Welcome to Kokoleka Puna

The story behind the beans

Aloha. We are Alex & Sonja, the owners and chocolate makers of Kokoleka Puna LLC.

Our Passion is to create healthy, vegan and organic Hawaiian Chocolates only from local grown Big Island ingredients.

Coming from Germany, Alex was working with chocolate all his life, and we wanted to start from scratch and produce our own pure chocolate. 100% handcrafted with high quality ingredients and cacao beans directly from the Hawaiian farmers.

Now we have built a Bean-to-Bar Studio in Puna to market our first small batch of real Hawaiian Dark Chocolates!

Alex is harvesting the pods and taking care of the trees at our supplier farm Hilo Sharks. Sonja is the creative part. Designing our own customized molds with a 3D printer, and constantly working on new flavors.

Working together with our Chocolate Partner Stephen Yundt from PUNA GOLD FARMS.

https://punagoldestate.com/

And Tom Sharky at HILO SHARKS, where our certified kitchen is located too.

https://www.hilosharkshawaii.com/

Also we are helping to restore farm land that was destroyed by the lava flow in 2018.

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Pieces of Chocolate

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Our Supplier Farms

FARM TOURS
@ PUNA GOLD ESTATES with our Chocolate partner Stephen.

Explore our supplier Farm for the best Cacaco beans on the planet!

Book now for a Big Island Farm Tour!!

See Coffee & Cacao growing! Enjoy a 1 Hour Personal Tour of the 3-acre farm by the owners, Stephen & Liz Yundt near the 2018 lava flow. Also with chocolate tasting and tropical picnic.

A MUST SEE

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FARM TOURS
@ HILO SHARK'S with TOM SHARKY

COFFEE, CACAO, VANILLA...
HOW DO THEY GROW?

VISIT A WORKING COFFEE, CACAO AND VANILLA PLANTATION AND

LEARN THE FASCINATING PROCESS OF SEED-TO-BAR CHOCOLATE MAKING

A born story-teller, Farmer Tom will take you on a walk through his orchard where you’ll discover how coffee grows and see vanilla vines growing right up the trunks of cacao trees.

Seethe fermented cacao drying in the sun until they're ready to be roasted and finally transformed into the chocolate we all know and love.

Next stop, Chocolate Kitchen, where you'll see how we process nibs into pure, dark Hawaiian chocolate. Finally, you'll take home yummy treats to remember your day by!

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