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Chocoholics assemble!
Discover the art of chocolate decorating on this silky-smooth chocolate making workshop.
Your experience will be led by Master Chocolatiers, and to start the session you’ve be given a brief history of chocolate making, and the processes used from bean to bar!
You’ll then sample unusual tasters, such as 100% pure chocolate and raw cocoa nibs. The different textures and flavours will really tickle the taste buds!
Next, you’ll start your decorating. You’ll first design a giant chocolate button, using dipping forks to create a gorgeous marble effect, just like the professionals do. Then, you’ll try your hand at some fresh truffle making. The rest of the session will be spent sculpting, cutting and making edible works of art using milk choc fudge, dark chocolate ganache and bowls of thick dripping melted chocolate.
By the time you go home, you’ll have around 15 different treats that you’ve made to take with you, along with your tasty giant button. Now, you can take these home and give them to your loved ones if you’d like, but our recommendation is taking some nice pictures and keeping every last one for yourself!
The gift vouchers you use for your experience gifts typically have a 18 month validity.
If you have not used your voucher in this time, please contact us and we may be able to help extend the deadline by up to a further six months.
There is an administration fee to extend the validity of a voucher.
Item code: ass817
Standard Delivery Estimated arrival 2-5 working days £2.99 |
Next Working Day Next working day (Order before 2pm Monday to Friday) Orders after this time will be dispatched the next working day £5.95 |
eVoucher Arrives in your email inbox within 15 minutes Free |
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What did you get up to?
The Chocolatier and host of the day, Gina, was funny, welcoming and very friendly. It was a fun, informative and jam-packed day. After a quick health and safety briefing, I learned about the history of chocolate, and Gina talked us through a detailed demonstration of how to tell the difference between good and bad quality chocolate. Our chocolatier showed us a handful of professional decorating techniques and also explained a variety of alternative methods in combining ingredients.
I found it particularly helpful that before we sat down and had a go ourselves, the chocolatier warned us of the common mistakes that people tend to make. We even got to have a taste of pure chocolate. I went home with a giant decorated chocolate button, which made for a great personalised present for a friend, as well as chocolate truffles and chocolate covered hand-made fudge which I polished off when I got home! The only downside to this experience was that for health and safety reasons, we only had one opportunity to lick the chocolate off the spoon!
What did you enjoy the most?
Definitely trying out my handmade chocolates! I was surprised at how tasty they were. Perhaps I've missed my calling?!
What did your experience entail?
Booking the experience was simple and I received an email promptly with all the details and had a reminder the day before. It was for a 2-hour session in chocolate making. It was a lovely experience, with the chef being engaging and warm from the moment I arrived and explained everything with energy and clarity that made the experience fun and inclusive.
I got to share my experience with others, and we all enjoyed being creative with the chocolate and being able to take it home was a bonus, as we were provided with bags or boxes to keep them safe until I got them home, or even before hand (as they did taste great), overall excellent value for money. Only room for improvement would be the setting, was ok being in a sort of conference area but in a more kitchen type environment would have felt nicer overall.
I got the train to the experience, and it was extremely easy to find with the details in the email booking I received confirming all required details. It was less than a couple minutes' walk out of Manchester Piccadilly station and if you wanted to stay over there was plenty of hotels within a short walk from where the experience took place, including the experience being in a lovely hotel.
What did you enjoy the most?
It was great fun to be able to be hands on and get messy with tasty chocolate, and then take home what I had created.
