Kelsi Petersen, left, and Cassandra Hume are the co-owners of Kelsi’s Kitchen, an online business that sells a healthy chocolate bar to customers. | Cassadra Hume   Local woman’s chocolate bar offers customers a healthier dessert alternative IDAHO FALLS – Kelsi Petersen was only 14 when she started baking with raw food. In high school, she invented a chocolate treat out of raw ingredients that became popular among her friends. Petersen eventually became a licensed raw food chef and today, the 29-year-old Idaho Falls native owns a business called Kelsi’s Kitchen that sells her chocolate tr ..read more

  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - This is literally a sweet story about how a local mom in Idaho Falls has taken the 'guilt' out of eating chocolate. As I sat in Kelsi Petersen’s kitchen, she began to share with me how a quest to eat better and live better turned into a successful business. “It all started because of my mom,” Petersen said. “Her intestines flipped over and she's always been on a quest for health her whole life, but then when this happened she knew that she needed to find a way to eat cause her body wouldn't digest food anymore.” At the age of twelve, Petersen decided to join ..read more

Guilt-free chocolate and to die for peanut butter chocolate pockets by: Reagan Leadbetter, GTU Staff, Michelle Nguyen Posted: Jun 15, 2021 / 11:21 PM MDT / Updated: Jun 15, 2021 / 11:27 PM MDT Kelsi Petersen, and Cassandra Hume, Co-Founders of Kelsi’s Kitchen came by to share their ultra-clean chocolates and a tasty recipe that goes with them! Cassandra Hume works with Kelsi Petersen, a trained raw food chef, at Kelsi’s Kitchen. They spend their time together making refrigerated, ultra-clean chocolate by hand in Bluffdale, UT using just five core, whole food ingredients and no refined sugar ..read more

Yellowstone National Park to sell Idaho Falls chocolates By SALLY KRUTZIG skrutzig@postregister.com An Idaho Falls-based chocolate company is expanding into Yellowstone National Park. The park’s stores will soon carry products from Kelsi’s Kitchen. When a Montana store brought free samples to park employees, they liked them so much that they arranged to begin carrying Kelsi’s Kitchen products. Kelsi’s Kitchen is a business selling chocolate products made by two local Idaho Falls women, Kelsi Petersen and Cassandra Hume. “A distributor was kind enough to bring samples to them. Once the mana ..read more

By: Sally Krutzig, Post Register    A local chocolate company has found success in the past year and expanded into 40 stores across four states. Made by two local women, Kelsi Petersen and Cassandra Hume, they estimate Kelsi’s Kitchen sells approximately 1,000 chocolates per week in Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. But Kelsi’s Kitchen doesn’t sell just any kind of chocolate. These chocolates are made with only five ingredients: almonds, honey cacao powder, coconut oil and salt. Considered a “raw food treat” they are free of refined sugar, soy, eggs, dairy, gluten and grains. The cho ..read more

What's the story behind Kelsi's Kitchen? As the youngest of eight kids, I spent a lot of my childhood in the kitchen with my mom, who adopted a raw diet after a health scare in 2001. My mom set her intention to eat the healthiest, high-quality food that she could find. As a young girl, my mom's journey was very inspiring to me, and when I was 12 I started eating a Raw Food diet alongside my mom. We travelled around the country to study the benefits of Raw Food and learn how to prepare delicious Raw Food recipes. Our travels took us to Ann Wigmore Institute&nb ..read more

  I have never claimed to be incorruptible. On the contrary, I’m a sucker for free stuff; I take what job perks I can, in the form of treats, meals, or experiences. So imagine my delight when I received a package from Kelsi’s Kitchen, a new business in Idaho Falls producing scrumptious little cacao bites that are now available in the refrigerated section at Broulim’s in Driggs. Founder Kelsi Petersen’s story is that she was born and raised in Idaho, as the youngest of eight. She was always working beside her mother Jaylene in the kitchen, learning early on to love food. Then her mom’s he ..read more