My Chocolate Workshop Experiance

My winning mouse

Hey, recently I went to a Chocolate workshop as part of my Christmas present, and it was really cool. I met lots of other people who loved to bake/cook. Most were slightly younger, but they enjoyed it as much as I did. The three women that were holding it were fantastic! They helped us do lots of really cool things. The main woman's name was Melanie Fallon, I've linked her website so please go and have a look, because she is great.

At the workshop itself, we did a few mini challenges where we had an allotted amount of time to be creative with chocolate. Such as the mouse challenge for example. We were all given a chocolate mouse, some white melted chocolate, and lots of sprinkles. In 10 minutes we had to decorate this mouse as best as we could. I won this challenge in the over 11's category. I won a chocolate Santa which looks absolutely delicious.

We also did a snowman challenge where we had 2 circles of chocolate, one milk, one white. Then we had 20 minutes to decorate a snowman. This was really fun and my friend won because hers was amazing but here is mine:

Well I had fun with it let's just say that. The whole experience was just so much fun. We got a little more technical towards lunch, with white chocolate truffles coated in milk chocolate and decorative sprinkles. I certainly learnt that with truffle mix you have to be quick and have cold hands, because the mix melts so quickly.

I unfortunately failed to get a picture of the truffles, because they were packaged up, then my family ate them at home. They were delicious though. I promise.

I got so much equipment and stuff needed for chocolate making as well, lots of great chocolate moulds that I will be using in the new year and might do some really simple new years chocolate stars, or a cupcake with little angels all over it. Just some fun stuff really. Also we got lots and lots of chocolate that was passed around after my dinner on Monday night, and has been shared on boxing day.

Please be sure to check out Melanie's website. A great big thank you to them for hosting that on Monday, everyone enjoyed it so much.

Happy Baking! Beth xx

Categories: Chocolate, Course, Technique