Our top priority is your safety
All of our confections are prepared, packed, and delivered under the strictest health and safety standards and procedures as outlined by the CDC. Covid has been devastating to our community of New York businesses, thank you for your ongoing support, we can’t begin to describe what it means to us.
Shoppe Tenets
- since we opened our doors in 2007 -
Inspiration
Kave draws inspiration from exploring both specialty and local markets to find new and unique ingredients for her inventive handmade treats. She builds a 'flavor profile' for each of her candies—layering different elements to create a complex and nuanced expression of that essential flavor.
Community
Roni-Sue emphasizes working with our neighbors to build relationships and strengthen communities. Roni-Sue Chocolates has collaborated with many institutions, clubs, schools, and non-profits including City Harvest, Share Our Strength, The Lower East Side Girl's Club, Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and City Limits/City Futures.
Quality
Roni-Sue is a co-founder of Belize-based MOHO Chocolate Company where our 60% dark chocolate is made by local artisans using organic Mayan cacao. Not only is our direct-trade, single-origin chocolate from Belize delicious, but it’s also a socially responsible choice too—so you can indulge and enjoy with a clear conscience!
Moho Chocolate Company
Belize, Central America
Roni-Sue is a co-founder in Belize based MOHO Chocolate Company where chocolate is made by local artisans using organic Mayan cacao. At Roni-Sue’s we use these same organic cacao nibs from Belize to make our house made dark chocolate. (Shhhh, it’s the secret to our critically acclaimed hot chocolate) as well as the delicious, fruity base for many of our rich dark chocolate ganache truffles.
Roni-Sue began exploring her most important ingredient more deeply a few years ago in the Toledo District of Southern Belize. Tasting raw cacao fruit right from the pod during visits to jungle cacao ‘farms’ was a revelation for Roni-Sue and a testament to the organic & sustainable (a.k.a. natural!) farming methods the Mayan farmers have practiced for decades.
MOHO Chocolate Company has its roots in the jungles of Belize, along the MOHO River Valley—where the delicious organic cacao beans are grown. In a better than direct-trade model, local farmers sell their ‘wet seed’ cacao fruit to the folks at Uncommon Cacao where the beans are fermented and dried under controlled conditions, resulting in a superior product and eliminating the risk of crop loss for farmers.
This direct trade model also benefits farmers’ families – the extra income parents receive from selling beans to Uncommon Cacao allows the family to send all their children to school. These children’s futures stand in stark contrast to the children of the Ivory Coast in Africa, many of whom are trafficked to work as child slaves on the large cacao farms that supply most of the cocoa beans used by the world’s major chocolate manufacturers.
The Roni-Sue Promise
We lovingly craft every single thing that comes out of our kitchen with the hope that it brings you a moment of joy and indulgence. If you’re not happy we’ll make it right.
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