This time, it was Appreciate Chocolate with Kakawa Chocolate's Jin Sun Kim and David Ralph. The class consisted of a master tasting session, history of chocolate and demonstrations of how to temper chocolate, make ganache and create truffles.
The evening started with a platter of delicious fruits and dipping chocolate, and some potent Toblerone cocktails.
Nothing says welcome like a tasting platter...
... and cocktails.
Ohhh, pretty things waiting to be tasted.
Kakawa's David Ralph spouts wisdom.
Ground up cacao beans - not especially tasty.
Dark chocolate - not my favourite, but not bitter like most generic dark chocolate is.
White "chocolate". Mmm sugary...
Blend of milk chocolate - love it. The markings are from bubble wrap.
Champagne truffles.
Basil truffles. Not for me, but very shiny.
Passionfruit/mango truffles. Amazing.
Almond slivers in milk chocolate.
Tempering chocolate.
Mmmm I'd like to lick the chocolate off the slab. Who cares about truffles.
Hello master bar tender. Thank you for the exquisite beverages.
The class was excellent and I learned a great deal about chocolate. I was also given a huge amount of chocolate to taste and then take home. I have a high tolerance for chocolate, but still felt ill after eating so much chocolate. I can't wait to go to Kakawa's store eat more of their chocolate!
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Looks like the type of class a chocolate lover would love! Did you get to try and temper the chocolate yourself or only watch?
ReplyDeleteYour photos are really gorgeous btw - whipped out your SLR for this occasion? Love how they look against the new darker background of the blog.
I only watched - I'd had too many cocktails by then to participate! I did whip out the SLR! I'm trying to use it more than the P&S :)
ReplyDeleteOMG chocolate heaven. i would love this :-)
ReplyDeleteOMG! That's so awesome! I've always wanted to learn how to temper chocolate correctly and never knew a class like this existed until now. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDelete@Simon & @Phuoc'n - I believe Kakawa are planning more classes. I thanks for visiting my blog!
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