Don Ricardo's Manila

17/05/2026

Treat your mama with our nama :) available in dark , dark Milk, ube and matcha variants.

07/05/2026

Celebrate Mother’s Day with chocolate made with love! 🍫🤎

04/05/2026

A massive thank you to the Department of Tourism for choosing Don Ricardo Chocolate Factory as the venue for your recent chocolate-making workshop! 🍫✨

It was an absolute honor to host your team, share our passion for locally sourced cacao, and guide everyone through the bean-to-bar process. We love seeing people get hands-on and creative with their sweet masterpieces!

Thank you for championing local artisans and supporting culinary tourism in our region.

Want to experience the magic yourself? Send us a message to book your own chocolate-making workshop! 👇

26/04/2026

22/04/2026

"Don Ricardo's is not just making chocolate, we're making history. One bar, one farmer, one community at a time." 🍫🌱

A massive THANK YOU to the brilliant and talented students of Joji Ilagan International School! We are incredibly honored that you chose to capture and share the story of Don Ricardo Chocolates with the world.

We are absolutely thrilled to share that the video presentation they created took home 1st Place at the InnovatExpo 2026, held last March 6, 2026, at SM Mall of GenSan! 🏆✨

As a sustainable bean-to-bar chocolate manufacturer, our ultimate goal is exactly what you beautifully highlighted, to uplift our local cacao farmers and showcase world-class, locally-grown chocolates to both the national and international stage through sustainable ways.

We are so happy to have shared our story with you, and we are beyond proud to see you share it so wonderfully with others. Thank you for championing local agriculture and for being part of our journey! 🌍💚

21/04/2026

20/04/2026

17/04/2026

Real and Pure is a lot better for the health

While you were looking at "lab-grown" meat, the chocolate industry pulled off the ultimate heist. Major companies are quietly funding lab-grown cocoa for 2027, but the truth is, they stopped giving you real chocolate years ago. In 27 countries, Cadbury's "Dairy Milk" isn't legally chocolate. Why? Because the Cocoa Butter—the very soul of chocolate—has been stripped out.

How the Heist Works:
Cocoa butter is expensive. To save money, companies replace it with a blend of six industrial oils. But oil doesn't taste like chocolate, so they add PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) to keep it from separating and petroleum-derived vanilla to mask the waxy taste. They do this in tiny steps—changing the recipe by 1% every few months—so your tongue never realizes the "real" taste is being erased. In 2026, you aren't eating a treat; you’re eating a cleverly flavored chemical slab.

The Check: Look for "PGPR" on the label. If it’s there, it’s not chocolate.

The Survival: Real chocolate has five ingredients or fewer. If you see "vegetable fats," put it back.