About Us, Hawaiian macadamia nuts and LAVA CANDY

OUR STORY

Aloha!  We moved to the Big Island of Hawaii from Nashville back in 2014 looking for new adventures, beauty, joy and peace on this incredible island.  Leaving a successful corporate job where I was a food scientist, but yearning for freedom, independence and a self sustaining life here. We had no idea how we were going to be able to afford to stay longterm on the island, but we had faith we would figure it out. Soon realizing how difficult it is to find work here, we worked odd jobs our first year, then one of us started working at a macadamia nut processing plant full time.  After a while we began to wonder how this big, beautiful, rich and buttery nut would taste in the family’s century-old peanut brittle recipe. As we made the first batch  and poured out the molten hot candy, it began to bubble and slowly cover the pan. Looking like a lava flow as it moved, we finally tasted it after cooling.  Amazed at how much different and (WAY) better it tasted with macadamia nuts, we immediately said, “OMG.... this is AMAZING and it's going to bee out new business and we can call it Lava Candy!”  We had just started beekeeping a few months earlier after a friend caught us a wild bee swarm, so we tried adding our honey to the recipe and it got even better! We began by giving it to friends, asking them for feedback and everyone was like, “Heck ya, that's ONO, I would pay money for that, it's the best macnut brittle I've ever had!!” So excited, we began the process of creating our very own candy business!  It took us years to perfect it, but we started selling it at local farmer’s markets in March 2017, and now years later we are being sold in 10 different businesses around the island!  Now, we are having to turn offers away as we cannot mass produce this as it just wouldn't bee so perfect as it is now. So, small batch gourmet candy it is...made perfectly every time~we now  have quite the online business too which is surprising to us but so humbled you think our candy is worth the shipping fee. Thankful for our success and now job security, we can stay here and enjoy the simple, slow-paced, beautiful island life. As long as Pele lets us that is... the 2018 volcanic eruption was so large and quite traumatic for our island. But, that’s part of the magic here, constant creation and change in one of the most beautiful places on this Earth. We have worked very hard to be where we are now and not a day passes without acknowledging how very blessed we are. We are thankful for your support and orders, sharing our product with friends/family and co-workers! We lava you-)

Our Product

It started with Big Grandma’s  (great great grandmother!) peanut brittle recipe from Arkansas that is over 100 years old.  We replaced peanuts with 100% Hawaiian macadamia nuts, the best nut in the world in our humble opinion and the most delicious nut in the world. The volcanic soil/lava rock help make Hawaii Island macadamia nuts (and everything else that grows here) world-renowned. We harvest fresh, delicious, organic, raw tropical flower honey from our farm’s beehives year round here. We use only the highest/best quality ingredients that are added to create our amazing macadamia nut brittle. NO preservatives or additives either! We make it in small batches, one pan at a time to preserve its unique, light and airy texture. This isn’t like most of the hard, mass-produced too sweet brittles on the market today and you can taste the difference! We want to share it with everyone around the world, which is happening as tourists come here from all over. It’s such a pleasure watching faces light up after tasting a free sample. Please help us spread the word, enjoy our candy, make people happy and support our dream of living here in Hawaii. We don't want to have to go back to the mainland, work in the Corporate world or live in the south ever again.... so please keep those orders coming we so appreciate it! Keep on dreaming your dreams, think outside those boxes and never give up-- ‘cause they can happen!  Aloha- 

BEE WELL and STAY SWEET!  

XO (The A Team)