Chocolate Tales

A few weeks ago was Chinese New Year. For the event, I always head in to the city to see my aunts and cousins.

In addition to that, this year I went with a cousin to a chocolate workshop, hosted by Chocolate Tales.

We got the chocolate making workshop on a groupon deal, so it was a lucky score for us, especially considering I wasn't really in need of a chocolate making workshop. But just to spend some time with my cousin, we thought a chocolate workshop would be great fun.

We had lunch with my aunt's family on the other side of town, so we only made it just on time to the workshop, which was held on the University's main campus.

It was a 90 minute workshop that introduced us to using chocolate molds, creating chocolate ganache, and decorating chocolates. It was less hands on than I would have liked, because what I really wanted was to work on improving more advanced chocolate working skills. Nonetheless, it was a fun class, and I got to sit in a heavily chocolate scented room for nearly 2 hours. What could be better?

We made lava cakes, and I decorated mine with a super S, for me!

Some of my chocolate decorations, covered with unwanted cocoa powder from the pair we shared our table with.

Delicious!

I hope everyone had a great Chinese New Year.

My other cousin and I, at temple on Chinese New Year day.