About Raw Honey Project

Growing up, I had a massive sweet tooth. Ice cream, cookies, chocolate, cinnamon buns, and especially Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (I was obsessed).

I actually tried to live off of ice cream for a week while in college (not joking).

Food, and especially dessert, has always been one of my favorite things, so giving up sweets was never exactly going to be an option for me.

When I turned 21, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Ulcerative colitis and for years I really struggled with my health.

I eventually took back control of my health and I attribute a lot of that to clean eating, which simply means eating whole, real ingredients and avoiding foods with additives like gums, fake sweeteners, and preservatives.

However, there was one pretty big issue. I still had the exact same sweet tooth, and unfortunately for me, most of the sweets I loved were no longer an option.

I began looking for natural ways to satisfy my sweet cravings, and so I started experimenting with raw honey.

I liked honey, but I had only ever used it in tea. So I wanted to see if I could somehow use it to make some of the foods I was already eating feel more like a treat. One day I got the idea to add raw honey and some really dark chocolate from Trader Joe's on top of my morning oatmeal and mix the two together.

I couldn't believe how something so simple could taste so good. It completely transformed a basic bowl of oatmeal into something I genuinely looked forward to eating every morning.

Not long after, I bought some of the creamiest, most delicious raw honey I had ever tasted. I liked it so much that I actually tracked down the beekeeper who made it. His name was Larry, and he had been making creamed raw honey since the '70s.

After getting in touch with Larry, he told me he could help me actually bring some of these ideas to life. He could source the raw honey, help with production, and most importantly, he knew a lot more about making creamed honey than I did.

So I got in the kitchen and started experimenting.

I started with flavors inspired by things I already loved. Chocolate, cinnamon buns, cookies, and butter. Basically, I wanted to see how far I could take raw honey and whether I could turn it into something that tasted more like a treat than... well, honey.

Some ideas were great. Some were terrible. I made a lot of really weird jars of honey, many of which are still scattered around the house. But after enough experimenting, tweaking, and trial and error, the products really started coming together and I knew we had something special.

Along the way, Larry taught me a lot more than just how to make creamed honey. He taught me about the honey industry itself, how honey is processed, and some of the major problems that exist within it that most consumers aren't even aware of.

The more I learned, the more I wanted Raw Honey Project to be about more than just making honey taste incredible.

I genuinely believe raw honey is one of the best natural ways to satisfy a sweet tooth. So we set out to completely transform what raw honey could taste like, without taking away what makes it special in the first place.

That meant creating craveable flavors inspired by the sweets I've always loved, using simple ingredients and delicious USA honey that's actually raw.

And that became the Raw Honey Project.