Mirielle trying Donkey Balls
While most of our stops along the Kona Coffee Trail involved coffee, we sneaked some Donkey Balls. Covered in Hawaii travel guides, a few outlets around the island sell locally grown macadamia nuts covered in chocolate. Forget the chocolate covered mac nuts you see in candy boxes, these are at least an inch in diameter. In addition to dark and milk chocolate, you will find coconut, chili pepper, Hawaiian sea salt and other concoctions added. Two warnings: these are popular so flavors sell out and bring lots of wet wipes as they are messy.
Kona Coast Nut & Candy Company
Less covered in guide books, but in my opinion more delectable, are the nuts and candy you can find at the Kona Coast Macadamia Nut & Candy Factory. Intrigued by the building we stopped, took a turn running a mac nut through the processing line and picked up both salted raw nuts and candies: dark chocolate mac nut and coconut bark for me and milk chocolate mac nut bark for my husband. We shared a little with Mirielle but never let her see the full stash.
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YUM! Chocolate covered macadamia nuts are my favorite! There is just something great about seeing your little one smothered in melted chocolate that brings a smile to the face!
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Love the face and the chocolate around it.
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That reminds me of being in the Cayman Islands and having our bus driver crack open an almond from a tree.
I love the chocolate-covered-child shot!
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Chuckling at “Donkey Balls”. And that’s a super-cute photo
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I love all those coffee places on the Kona Coast. Looks like your little one had a good time there, too!
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I think I might take the nuts over the coffee anyway. Certainly after seeing how much your little one was enjoying it. Yum!
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You are making me drool just thinking about giant chocolate covered macadamia nuts!
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I wasn’t going to mention the “donkey balls” thing…I see wandermom beat me to it anyway
Looks like a great store to shop. I love finding the little local food treats when traveling (there’s still one week left in my Road Food book giveaway if anyone is interested! I need some ideas of where to eat on my next trip!)
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