Slattery's Patissier & Chocolatier

Chippychap

15th December 2008

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Marmalady

Chocolate Making Workshop 3rd September 2008

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Slattery's is, in lay-man's terms, a cake and chocolate shop. Except it makes the cakes and chocolates itself. And it can also teach you how to do the same.

A whole variety of courses are run and the half-day course which I attended is the sort of thing you see advertised on certain "gift experiences" websites.

Joining a group of about 12 individuals you are taken through the basic knowledge of chocolate, where it comes from, how its made, the differences between certain chocolates. This educational side is not as boring as you far fear, especially for chocolate lovers.

You quickly move onto the hands-on stage where you are assigned a table and talked through the process of making various chocolates and moulds. Once you actually get stuck into the making process it gets incredibly messy, but this is part of the joy of it. Huge basins of chocolate are constantly churning in the workshop and inevitably half of it ends up all over your hands. Although the sink is constantly in use to wash clean between each creation there seemed to be a permanent line of women secretly licking as much chocolate off their hands before they washed clean.

The course is incredibly well run and supervision and assistance is given at every stage of proceedings. Care and detail is given to the packaging of your finished items so that at the end of the experience you leave with a huge presentation package full of your own homemade chocolates.

A truly fantastic experience for any chocolate lover.