Surround yourself with swathes of the stuff on a delicious Ultimate Chocolate Workshop! Cocoa fans are in for a real treat with these two-hour chocolate making courses held in a boutique hotel in Bournemouth where you'll be hand crafting Belgian truffles galore.To tempt your taste buds workshops start with a look into the history of chocolate and the wonders of cocoa from bean to bar. From that point the experienced chocolatiers hosting you workshop will take you on a choc-filled journey creating delicious Belgian truffles from scratch using all those naughty-but-nice ingredients. After you've prepped and piped you'll then be dipping your creations in chocolate before designing and decorating with your very own bespoke toppings. Will you stay classic by rolling them in cocoa powder? Or perhaps you'll go for a bit of a nutty crunch to your sumptuous truffles? The choice is yours fellow chocolate fiends! A course highlight for us is the demonstration on chocolate tempering. This is the moment you'll learn the secrets to give your choc that shiny glossy and smooth finish ready to dip your truffles into. Argh! It's making us want to eat chocolate in vast quantities just writing about these ultimate chocolate-making workshops. And the fact that there's a chocolate fountain permanently flowing throughout these classes isn't helping. Just imagine being able to pop across to the free-flowing chocolatey goodness at any point for a cheeky dip. Simply divine. So divine in fact that you'll probably want one at home. Sadly you won't be able to take the choc fountain home with you but you will be leaving the chocolate kitchen with a pile of those fine genuine Belgian truffle chocolate sweets you made all by yourself. We think you'll agree it's a scrumptious way to end your ultimate chocolate workshop laden down with your handcrafted chocolate treats as you leave the hotel. Just make sure you don't eat them all on the way home before any of your nearest and dearest can sample them!
Make delicious chocs at Malmaison in Manchester with a fun chocolatier hosting these two hour workshops where you'll make around 15 chocolates to take home with you in a neatly tied bag.
Carry on chocolate making in Cumbria! These chocolate workshops work perfectly for friends and family support bubbles or couples. You get exclusive use of the well-equipped chocolate and baking kitchen which is based at Milnthorpe in Cumbria's South Lakeland area. Kath is the baking chocolate making and decorating genius behind these fun and very tasty experiences in Cumbria. She is a very skilled baker and chocolatier with a lovely kitchen that has a welcoming feel. And when it comes to teaching her motto is quite simple: "Let's make yummy stuff" - and we can't say fairer than that! During your two-hour session you'll be trying your hand at all sorts of methods of chocolate making and decorating. Go sparkly with the sprinkles make funky chocolate lollipops sip a very special hot chocolate learn all about cocoa butter decorating and whip up a delicious ganache for your truffles. You'll be experimenting with flavours too from espresso to salted caramel. Yum yum! We are offering t...
The perfect gift for anyone who loves chocolate - learn how to make handmade chocolates to your own unique recipe and take home the 21 chocolates you make all wrapped up in professional packaging. This fun and informative half-day workshop is hosted by an Hampshire-based award winning chocolate company who will help you to master the skills of a professional chocolatier in just a morning!This Alresford artisan chocolatier is extremely proud of the fine chocolates it produces (with good reason!) and is now offering you the chance to come to their lovely Hampshire venue to find out how to make delicious and unique chocolates. Using locally sourced products including cream fruits nuts and liqueurs you can create your own combination of divine flavours before finding out how to decorate and garnish your stylish chocolates like a professional.With a wide variety of finest quality ingredients and tastings along the way you'll be taught how to make a ganache and how to hand pipe into pro...
Go on a journey with Hotel Chocolat from bean to bar on these brilliant chocolate experiences! Spend a couple of hours at one of Hotel Chocolat's very own chocolate schools to learn how cocoa beans get transformed into the glossy bars of chocolate that Hotel Chocolat is renowned for. It's going to be a taste and smell sensation on these workshops. We all know chocolate tastes so good but what do cocoa beans actually smell like? You'll be immersed in the world of cocoa during these experiences so you'll be tasting and smelling all the way through the chocolate-making process. The chocolate laboratory is a special place. The vibe is very much one of a cocoa plantation with the mix of metal and wood with hurricane lamps and hessian sacks. In fact Hotel Chocolat owns it's own plantation in Saint Lucia so that's how they know they are getting the very best cocoa beans to create their renowned and much-loved chocolate range. And it's this process you'll be learning about. The Hotel Chocolat conching machines whirr away whilst your chocolatier host explains how their chocolate is made. But you're not just here to listen - you're here to make your very own chocolate bar from roasted cocoa beans! Time to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in. As your expert chocolatier explains the purest chocolate is just cocoa beans some sugar and maybe a little milk. So you'll be given your own stash of freshly roasted Hotel Chocolat cocoa beans to grind by hand. The smell at this point is incredible - earthy and intense. As the cocoa powder separates from the cocoa butter you start to get a paste and you're well on the way to making your bar! Time for some tempering to bring the paste up to temperature to get that perfect crystal structure giving it that smooth and glossy finish. Once poured into the moulds (with a little bash to get the air out) you're done. Time to reflect with a glass of bubbly on how you took cocoa beans and made them into an actual chocolate bar. Chocolate set and ready you'll leave this Hotel Chocolat bean to bar experience with your very own hand-made slab of chocolate. Yum!
The Hotel Chocolat Tasting Adventure - a two-hour workshop explaining chocolate in a very un-boring way! Be entertained have a glass of Prosecco learn lots about the tastes of different chocolates and eat lots of it too. What a way to while away a couple of hours with like-minded company as you all indulge in all things cocoa. Hosted by an expert from Hotel Chocolat you are in for a fabulous journey into chocolate. What on earth do all the percentages of cocoa content actually mean? Have you ever wondered why some chocolate has a smoky flavour? What happens if you get your conching wrong? How do you get that texture just right? All these and many more chocolatey questions will be answered for you during your experience. You know how in wine tasting you learn to describe and explain your taste sensations? Well with these tasting adventures it's much the same but with chocolate. You'll learn about what factors affect flavours and how the flavour combinations work together to become the perfect piece of irresistible chocolate that you just want to pop in your mouth and scoff! And we have to say the best thing about these experiences is that there is SO much chocolate for you to taste. Hotel Chocolat has an amazing range of chocolate and you'll get the chance to try lots. You will be tasting some classic combinations that are well-known and loved but also some more usual flavours that you'd probably never imagine working but they do. Contrary to popular belief one cannot live on chocolate alone which is why the bubbles will be flowing during your tasting adventure. You'll be served a nice chilled glass of Prosecco to accompany your Hotel Chocolat cocoa treats. And it's not just any old Prosecco but a DOCG one meaning it's of the highest quality. No Hotel Chocolat Tasting Adventure would be complete without a little gift to take home with you so you'll be leaving with a goody bag in hand. And it's also worth knowing that for the day of your experience only you can buy Hotel Chocolat products with a 10% discount. The perfect excuse to stock up!
Welcome to Hotel Chocolat for kids! Children will love these one-hour workshops where they get to learn all about where chocolate comes from and decorate their very own slab of chocolate. And all with lots of yummy chocolate tasting in-between. Get ready for a journey in chocolate kids! Standby for mucky mitts and chocolate moustaches galore. Making a mess is actually all part of the fun during these chocolate sessions that are just for kids aged between five and 13 years old. Hosted by Hotel Chocolat kids will have a blast. The history of chocolate is explained in a fun yet informative way and without waffle so youngsters get just the right amount of facts and figures before attention wanders. After the educational bit that includes seeing the machines used to turn cocoa beans into chocolate it's time to get hands-on. And as an accompanying adult you can watch your little ones as they get stuck in with all things cocoa. What's more you'll most likely be offered a drink (ever had a drink at a Hotel Chocolat cafe? Well we can tell you the hot choc is to die for!) and even take a nibble on some sampling choc yourself. Each child will be presented with a block of delicious chocolate and that means it's time for the decorating to begin. Kids will be piping swirls and shapes with different colours of warmed liquid chocolate sticking on mini marshmallows and generally just making a glorious cocoa mess as they decorate. All bars are made in their own unique style and once they've set it's time to wrap them as neatly as a Hotel Chocolat bar in the shop ready to be taken home. The only problem we can see with these Hotel Chocolat Kids' sessions is the fact that those neatly packaged bars of hand-crafted chocolate will so not be making it home without being scoffed. All the more reason for you grown ups to make sure you buy your own little stock of choc in the shop before you leave!!
Join the online truffle-making party as you take part in the livestream chocolate making webinar and get stuck in with your ready-to-go chocolate making kit that was delivered to your door.