Please click here for the winners of the 2010 Rehoboth Beach Chocolate Festival.  Thank you to all that participated!

March 6, 2010! The 20th Annual Rehoboth Beach, DE Chocolate Festival.  The festival will be held at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center with the theme "A Day For Chocolate Lovers. " The festival is sponsored by Rehoboth Beach Main Street and the Friends of the Rehoboth Beach Public Library. 

The baking contest will feature more restaurant entries than ever before!  It’s a fabulous day of chocolate, with tastes galore, vendors, a raffle, kids games and much more!  Businesses: If interested in being a vendor, please call 302-227-2772.

Tastings start at 11:30 am and last until the chocolate runs out or 3:30 pm. Tickets at the door: Admission is only $2.00 and you can buy as many tastes as you like for only 50 cents each! Sorry but no carry out is permitted. Children under 5 get in for free.  For those who desire lunch in between chocolate appetizers and desserts, Main Street will provide All-American hot dogs and drinks. It’s a day of fun for the whole family!

2010 Chocolate Festival Vendors Include:
Blue Restaurant
Hobo's Restaurant
Lupo Di Mare
Maui Wowi Hawaiian Coffee & Smoothies
Nourish
Sugar Rush Fudge
Touch of Italy
Tout de Suite Patisserie

Kids Games by Rehoboth Co-Op Preschool!:
Hot Cocoa Theme:
Marshmallow Toss
Tootsie Roll Pop
Treasure Find
Crafts-chocolate pudding finger-painting and making bookmarks
Photo op for the kids to turn into either a smore or a chocolate kiss

Baking Contest

At the heart of the festival is the chocolate Baking Contest, open to anyone who wants to enter. Download the official baking contest entry form here. You may enter in one of the below categories:

• Restaurants
• Bakery
• Professional/Chef
• Amateur
• Children Under 12
• Showpiece 

Prizes and ribbons in each category are given for the following sub-categories:

• Cookies
• Brownies
• Pies
• Cheesecake
• Candy
• Cakes
• Most Unusual

Prizes include downtown gift certificates, plaques, and ribbons, ribbons, ribbons!  You can register on the morning of the festival. Just bring your entries to Convention Hall between 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m for judging.

Interested in being a baking contest judge or volunteer chocolate cutter? It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it! Just call 302-227-8259 to volunteer!