Loveland Chocolate & Cheese Fest
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The Ranch Events Complex
*** NOW - TWICE AS BIG! ***
North & South Hall!
And YES - We're adding CHEESE!!!
1 mile east of I-25 Exit 259
5280 Arena Circle, Loveland, CO 80538
FREE PARKING!
Hours: 11:00am - 5:00pm
This event is owned and produced by Dana Cain Events.
ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE ENDED.
Session 1 & 2 = SOLD OUT.
Session 3 - Tickets available at the door: $6
Session 3 hours: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Session 1 & 2 = SOLD OUT.
Session 3 - Tickets available at the door: $6
Session 3 hours: 3:00 - 5:00 pm
BOOTHS ARE NOW ON SALE!
Scroll down to see lase year's list of participating chocolatiers, samplers and vendors!
Scroll down to see lase year's list of participating chocolatiers, samplers and vendors!
For those who Love Chocolate & Cheese!
Admission (Limit 1200 per session):
$10 for Session One (SOLD OUT. arrive 11:00 - 1:00) or Session Two (SOLD OUT. arrive 1:00 - 3:00)
Arrive any time during your session and stay as long as you like. No one has to leave until 5 PM!
$6 for Session Three (Get tickets at the door. arrive 3:00 - 5:00)
This budget-friendly option saves you money on admission and lets you take advantage of any last-minute deals from vendors!
$59 for VIP Pass (SOLD OUT)
Arrive a full hour early (10:00 - 11:00) - or any time you like!
Includes:
Kids FREE age 10 and younger
Parking FREE
Add Your Taste Tickets to Sample: 12 for $10
ONLINE TICKET SALES END AT 5:00 PM SEPT. 20.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR while supplies last.
Admission (Limit 1200 per session):
$10 for Session One (SOLD OUT. arrive 11:00 - 1:00) or Session Two (SOLD OUT. arrive 1:00 - 3:00)
Arrive any time during your session and stay as long as you like. No one has to leave until 5 PM!
$6 for Session Three (Get tickets at the door. arrive 3:00 - 5:00)
This budget-friendly option saves you money on admission and lets you take advantage of any last-minute deals from vendors!
$59 for VIP Pass (SOLD OUT)
Arrive a full hour early (10:00 - 11:00) - or any time you like!
Includes:
- 12 VIP Indulgence Tickets (good for exclusive treats from our VIP vendors); Plus 12 Taste Tickets
- VIP wristband and bag to take home any leftovers for gifts or for later!
- Reserved seating on the front rows at all stage events throughout the Festival.
- Line skipping at entry and at the VIP designated booths!
Kids FREE age 10 and younger
Parking FREE
Add Your Taste Tickets to Sample: 12 for $10
ONLINE TICKET SALES END AT 5:00 PM SEPT. 20.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR while supplies last.
A Full Day of Chocolate & Cheese Sampling, Shopping and Entertainment!
Meet some of the BEST local, regional and national chocolatiers and cheesemakers!
Chocolate Truffles * Chocolate Fudge * Chocolate Bon Bons * Chocolate Bars * Chocolate Cookies * Chocolate Brownies * Chocolate Drinks * Chocolate Cupcakes * Chocolate EVERYTHING ...
PLUS: Soft Cheese * Hard Cheese * Cheese Curds * Cheese Bread * Locally-Made Cheese * European Cheese * Cheddar Cheese * Swiss Cheese * Brie * Jack Cheese * Cheese Wheels * Cheese Sauce * Goat Cheese * Cow Cheese * Cheese Fondue * Cheese EVERYTHING!
Loads to sample and buy! AND: You'll love our great gift vendors!
PLUS: Soft Cheese * Hard Cheese * Cheese Curds * Cheese Bread * Locally-Made Cheese * European Cheese * Cheddar Cheese * Swiss Cheese * Brie * Jack Cheese * Cheese Wheels * Cheese Sauce * Goat Cheese * Cow Cheese * Cheese Fondue * Cheese EVERYTHING!
Loads to sample and buy! AND: You'll love our great gift vendors!
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Reminder: Sessions designate arrival time only. You are welcome to stay into the next session. We won't boot you out until 5:00!
Reminder: Sessions designate arrival time only. You are welcome to stay into the next session. We won't boot you out until 5:00!
- 10:00 AM VIP Admission
- 11:00 AM Doors open - Session 1
- 11:30 AM Chocolate Pudding Eating Contest Come to the Main Stage 10 minutes early to participate! Win Taste Tickets!
- 12:30 PM Chocolate Bingo Anyone can play! Win Taste Tickets!
- 1:00 PM Doors open - Session 2
- 1:30 PM Cheese Rolling! Try to roll a cheese wheel across the stage. If yours goes the furthest without falling over, you win!
- 2:30 AM Chocolate & Tea Pairing with The Chocolate Therapist (Requires Taste Tickets)
- 3:00 PM Doors open - Session 3
- 3:30 PM Who Wore it Best? Chocolate vs Cheese Fondue Dip-Off! Try a variety of dippers in our two Fondues! Denver's wackiest chef, Andrew Novick, hosts
- 5:00 PM Doors Close.
Meet our MC - Miss Babette Bon Bon! She puts the good diva in Godiva and the babe in Baby Ruth! She'll be at the festival all day, introducing the entertainment, wandering the floor and posing for pics! Photo by Gracie G'night.
NOW TWICE AS BIG!!!
Last year, we hit maximum capacity 5 times, and had to halt the entry line. That can't happen this year ... We've doubled our capacity, doubled the number of samplers and vendors, and limited the number of folks who can be inside during each session!
Location:
The Ranch Events Complex
5280 Arena Circle, Loveland CO 80538
Last year, we hit maximum capacity 5 times, and had to halt the entry line. That can't happen this year ... We've doubled our capacity, doubled the number of samplers and vendors, and limited the number of folks who can be inside during each session!
Location:
The Ranch Events Complex
5280 Arena Circle, Loveland CO 80538
- First National Bank Building - NORTH & SOUTH HALL!
- 45 mins. north of Denver
- 30 mins. south of Cheyenne
- I-25 Exit 259
- Phone: (970) 619-4000
Taste Tickets and Sampling
You can sample as much (or as little) chocolate and cheese as you want at our Festival! Vendors offer samples in exchange for Taste Tickets! They are usually one-ticket-for-one-sample... but it can vary. Sometimes you can taste multiple smaller samples for one ticket, and other times, you can get a large or elaborate sample for two tickets! It typically averages out to one ticket per sample! This allows us to pay our vendors a little something for the tens of thousands of samples that get consumed at our shows - and keeps them coming back with more for you to try! If you find something you love, you can usually buy a box of it to take home for later!
You can buy 12 Taste Tickets for just $10 ... We recommend starting with the 24 for $20, though! You can always buy more at the show - or if you get chocolated-out (Is that even a thing?) you can take home samples in a sample bag for later!
You can buy 12 Taste Tickets for just $10 ... We recommend starting with the 24 for $20, though! You can always buy more at the show - or if you get chocolated-out (Is that even a thing?) you can take home samples in a sample bag for later!
Chocolatiers, Cheesemakers, Samplers and Vendors
Want to sell?
Booths on sale now! See why vendors say we have "the best show model in the country!" We have a limit of 5 non-chocolate/non-food-or-drink gift booths. Don't wait - sign up today!
10 x 10 Booth rental:
- $195 for chocolate, cheese, food and drink
- $350 for Gift Booths
- Double booths also available.
Each 10 x 10 booth includes:
- pipe and drape backdrop
- one 8-ft table
- 2 chairs
- Extra tables available for $20 each
- Electricity is available for $35
DRIVE-IN LOADING IS ALLOWED AT THIS VENUE! That makes it so easy! Load-in is 7:00 - 10:00 day of show.
TASTE TICKETS – WE PAY YOU $.50 PER SAMPLE!
Vendors love the Taste Ticket model for our chocolate festivals! Customers give you a ticket for each sample. YOU get to decide on your own sample sizes and amounts, based on your unique products. At the end of the show, bring your Taste Tickets to Registration for cash. We weigh them with our Ticket Scale and pay $.50 PER TICKET. 🙂
VIP Vendors: It only costs and extra $50 to be a VIP Vendor and get extra promotion and special attention from our VIP attendees! You must be a chocolate/sweets company and you have to provide special, unique samples for our VIPs. We pay you $2.00 for every VIP Indulgence Ticket you collect!
AVERAGE PAYOUT TO CHOCOLATE SAMPLERS PER SHOW LAST YEAR -- $835.00!
That's just what we pay you for the sample tickets you turn in a the end of the show. That doesn't even COUNT your sales!
INSURANCE: All vendors are required to have their own liability insurance. If you need to order from us, you can do so inexpensively at https://securevendorinsurance.com/PFS/ApplicantInformation?GroupEventKey=1c602a6df6c4
ALCOHOL POLICY: No vendors may sell or sample any alcoholic products.
10 x 10 Booth rental:
- $195 for chocolate, cheese, food and drink
- $350 for Gift Booths
- Double booths also available.
Each 10 x 10 booth includes:
- pipe and drape backdrop
- one 8-ft table
- 2 chairs
- Extra tables available for $20 each
- Electricity is available for $35
DRIVE-IN LOADING IS ALLOWED AT THIS VENUE! That makes it so easy! Load-in is 7:00 - 10:00 day of show.
TASTE TICKETS – WE PAY YOU $.50 PER SAMPLE!
Vendors love the Taste Ticket model for our chocolate festivals! Customers give you a ticket for each sample. YOU get to decide on your own sample sizes and amounts, based on your unique products. At the end of the show, bring your Taste Tickets to Registration for cash. We weigh them with our Ticket Scale and pay $.50 PER TICKET. 🙂
VIP Vendors: It only costs and extra $50 to be a VIP Vendor and get extra promotion and special attention from our VIP attendees! You must be a chocolate/sweets company and you have to provide special, unique samples for our VIPs. We pay you $2.00 for every VIP Indulgence Ticket you collect!
AVERAGE PAYOUT TO CHOCOLATE SAMPLERS PER SHOW LAST YEAR -- $835.00!
That's just what we pay you for the sample tickets you turn in a the end of the show. That doesn't even COUNT your sales!
INSURANCE: All vendors are required to have their own liability insurance. If you need to order from us, you can do so inexpensively at https://securevendorinsurance.com/PFS/ApplicantInformation?GroupEventKey=1c602a6df6c4
ALCOHOL POLICY: No vendors may sell or sample any alcoholic products.
We pay you $.50 per sample!
Our 2024 chocolatiers, samplers and vendors
More are signing up weekly! Check back!
Bold Blue = These vendors have VIP samples as well as regular samples.
Audacious Truffles
AuJuBelle
Bee Squared Apiaries
BH Delicacies
Bruna's Brazilian Cheese Bread
Cali-Co Crafts
Cassavaberry
Cheese Chef LLC
Cheese Shop (cheese curds)
Chocolate Made Here
Chocolate Therapist, The
Cocoa Club by Pollinator Chocolate
Colorado Cocoa Pod
Colorado Crafty Bakers
Colorado Farmhouse Cheese Co
Confetti Confections
Craft and Crumbles
Cutco
Danconias Truffle Brownies
Farm in a Jar
F'n Chocolate
Freeze Dried Freaks
Frosting! Specialty Cupcakes
Fudge Ladies Co
George's Gourmet Pound Cakes
Goufrais German Confections
Grammy Brittle & More!
History of Chocolate display
House of Stewart Confections
IMI Cheese Charcuterie Board
Ixkakaw
Jeana's Nut Buddies LLC
Kiki's Cookies & Cakes
K.J.'s Jerky
Kogler's Bakery
Lani Belle honey
m2 Confections
Macarons and Muttarons LLC
Marrom Bombom
Maui Shave Ice
Mia Bella's Candles
MouCo Cheese Company
Nita Crisp Crackers
NOCO Chocolates
Nothing bundt Cakes
Paradice Cream
Passanante's Home Food Service
Pastamore
Patricia E Davis
Pawsome Scents
Polar Beverage
Redemption Road Coffee
rich brownies
Robin Chocolates
Rockin' W Cheese
Sana's
Say Cheese
Scratch Sweets
Starflower Chocolate
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
SugarBee Cookie Company
Sweet Rice Flour
The Denver Post
The Juice Plus Company
The Sweet Life Culinary Products
Tiny T's Sweet Treats
To Market - To Market
Two Sistah's Eats
Venecacao
Welsh Rabbit Cheese Shop
What the Fudge Co
Whitewater Kettle Corn
Wurzpott LLC
Your Corner of the World Creations
Zero Proof Choctail Bar
Zetta Marie's Patisserie
Special Thanks to our Vendor Exclusivity Partners, who will be sampling cheeses:
More are signing up weekly! Check back!
Bold Blue = These vendors have VIP samples as well as regular samples.
Audacious Truffles
AuJuBelle
Bee Squared Apiaries
BH Delicacies
Bruna's Brazilian Cheese Bread
Cali-Co Crafts
Cassavaberry
Cheese Chef LLC
Cheese Shop (cheese curds)
Chocolate Made Here
Chocolate Therapist, The
Cocoa Club by Pollinator Chocolate
Colorado Cocoa Pod
Colorado Crafty Bakers
Colorado Farmhouse Cheese Co
Confetti Confections
Craft and Crumbles
Cutco
Danconias Truffle Brownies
Farm in a Jar
F'n Chocolate
Freeze Dried Freaks
Frosting! Specialty Cupcakes
Fudge Ladies Co
George's Gourmet Pound Cakes
Goufrais German Confections
Grammy Brittle & More!
History of Chocolate display
House of Stewart Confections
IMI Cheese Charcuterie Board
Ixkakaw
Jeana's Nut Buddies LLC
Kiki's Cookies & Cakes
K.J.'s Jerky
Kogler's Bakery
Lani Belle honey
m2 Confections
Macarons and Muttarons LLC
Marrom Bombom
Maui Shave Ice
Mia Bella's Candles
MouCo Cheese Company
Nita Crisp Crackers
NOCO Chocolates
Nothing bundt Cakes
Paradice Cream
Passanante's Home Food Service
Pastamore
Patricia E Davis
Pawsome Scents
Polar Beverage
Redemption Road Coffee
rich brownies
Robin Chocolates
Rockin' W Cheese
Sana's
Say Cheese
Scratch Sweets
Starflower Chocolate
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
SugarBee Cookie Company
Sweet Rice Flour
The Denver Post
The Juice Plus Company
The Sweet Life Culinary Products
Tiny T's Sweet Treats
To Market - To Market
Two Sistah's Eats
Venecacao
Welsh Rabbit Cheese Shop
What the Fudge Co
Whitewater Kettle Corn
Wurzpott LLC
Your Corner of the World Creations
Zero Proof Choctail Bar
Zetta Marie's Patisserie
Special Thanks to our Vendor Exclusivity Partners, who will be sampling cheeses:
- All American Gutter Protection
- Lifetime Bath & Shower
- Mountain Safe Exteriors
- Renewal by Andersen
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DANA'S MISSION:
Our goal is to remind people that the world can be a beautiful, magical, fun place! We create environments where people can go to immerse themselves in their favorite things! Whether its one of our chocolate festivals, the Unicorn Festival, a retro-themed event, or a sci-fi musical, we love to take people exactly where they want to be - to their happy place!" - Dana Cainyright 2021 by Dana Cain Events. Headquartered in beautiful Denver, CO. Follow our @UnicornFestivalCO on Facebook. |