Yes, it is the start of a new month and that means time for our Fun and Serious Holidays that you could celebrate with Chocolate. Two important figures in the history of chocolate have birthdays this month as well a national month long holidays, cultural holidays, and fun food holidays. All can be celebrated with chocolate. Leave a comment and tell us which holidays you intend to celebrate with chocolate.
May = National Chocolate Custard Month; National Mental Health Month; National Egg Month; Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; Rainforest Awareness Month
May 1 = National Chocolate Parfait Day
May 2 = National Truffle Day
May 5 = National Chocolate Custard Day -- Wait! The entire month celebrates chocolate custard so why a day, too?
May 5 = Cinco de Mayo -- Make sure you use spicy chocolate to celebrate!
May 11 = National Eat What You Want Day
May 12 = National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13 (2017) = World Fair Trade Day -- Empower the farmer, protect the chocolate, help keep the future delicious.
May 14 = National Buttermilk Biscuit Day
May 15 = National Chocolate Chip Day
May 15 = Birthday of Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801) who treated cocoa mass with alkaline salts to reduce the bitter flavor, a process still called “Dutch” to this day; his father, Casparus van Houten, created the cocoa press
May 17 = World Baking Day
May 19 = National Devil’s Food Cake Day
May 24, 1836 = Birthday of Joseph Rowntree, Chocolatier and Philanthropist
May 29 = National Biscuit Day
May = National Chocolate Custard Month; National Mental Health Month; National Egg Month; Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; Rainforest Awareness Month
May 1 = National Chocolate Parfait Day
May 2 = National Truffle Day
May 5 = National Chocolate Custard Day -- Wait! The entire month celebrates chocolate custard so why a day, too?
May 5 = Cinco de Mayo -- Make sure you use spicy chocolate to celebrate!
May 11 = National Eat What You Want Day
May 12 = National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13 (2017) = World Fair Trade Day -- Empower the farmer, protect the chocolate, help keep the future delicious.
May 14 = National Buttermilk Biscuit Day
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| Coenraad Johannes van Houten |
May 15 = Birthday of Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801) who treated cocoa mass with alkaline salts to reduce the bitter flavor, a process still called “Dutch” to this day; his father, Casparus van Houten, created the cocoa press
May 17 = World Baking Day
May 19 = National Devil’s Food Cake Day
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| Joseph Rowntree |
May 29 = National Biscuit Day
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