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WORKSHOPS
The Chocolate Cellar offers a range of workshops. The workshops are taught by Award Winning Chocolatier, Bala Croman.
Bala’s passion for chocolate is totally infectious and all who have attended have come away inspired and enthralled by the art of chocolate making.
Sessions are run at The Chocolate Cellar in Liverpool City Centre and at Claremont Kitchens on the Wirral.
Workshops can be arranged for groups on mutually agreeable dates or for individuals on pre-arranged dates.
Our workshops are popular for corporate events, birthday parties, hen /stag parties and special individual treats.
All items created during the workshop are packaged and taken home by participants.
Call now to book your place on 0151 200 2202 or e-mail bala@thechocolatecellar.co.uk
Dabble 2 hours £20/head
Talk on chocolate and chocolate making
Demonstration on chocolate tempering
Practical session:
– making your own chocolate pieces (lollies, discs, decorative pieces)
Creative Half day £35/head
Talk on chocolate and chocolate making
Chocolate Tasting Techniques
Demonstration on chocolate tempering and using moulds
Practical session
· tempering chocolate
· making your own chocolate pieces (lollies, discs, decorative pieces)
· using chocolate moulds
Chocoholic Full day £85/head
Talk on chocolate and chocolate making
Chocolate Tasting Techniques
Demonstration on chocolate tempering and using moulds
Chocolate pairings for truffle making
Practical session
· chocolate tasting
· tempering chocolate
· making your own chocolate pieces (lollies, discs, decorative pieces)
· using chocolate moulds
· creating truffles
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Events!!
I love all the events that are coming up.
The Wirral Food and Drink Festival is a particular favourite of mine as it is near home, the setting is amazing, particularly in the courtyard and the team running it are all absolutely fabulous. The atmosphere is wonderful … for the past 3 years they’ve even managed to get the weather right! (Well almost!) If there is only one event you go to all year, make it this one! We will be launching our Chocolate Tasting Club here!
Last year was the first “opening event” for Liverpool Food and Drink Festival … very different in style to the Wirral, but equally fantastic. The organisation was fabulous and I felt very safe taking along my two little ones. The Festival opens with an event at Sefton Park and then restaurants (and chocolateries) hold special events through the week – we have a cheese, chocolate and wine tasting on the Monday and a chocolate tasting on the Tuesday. The week closes with Feast on Hope Street!
For me these events are an eye opener as I see all the amazing foods that are available to us! I always come away with bag fulls of food and brilliant ideas … it is so different buying food from a producer! Their passion for their food is always so intense and they can tell you so much about their food that you would probably never know if you only stuck to supermarkets.
Can you tell I’m getting excited?! Anyway I hope this year will be fabulous again and look forward to seeing both old and new visitors. Enjoy!
Time to Feast!
We’re extremely excited about the advent of Farm Feast 2015 at Claremont Farm- this has replaced the old “Wirral Food and Drink Festival”.
It always has a fantastic atmosphere, lovely producers, organisers and volunteers.
We will be looking forward to being in the courtyard and promise to bring you some delightful little treats as well as the delicious macarons. The macarons do normally run out fairly early so make sure you are the early bird!
We’ll also be running a little competition over the weekend so do pop by our stall to see how you could the winner of some amazing gifts.
See you there?! (Please bring some sunshine!)
Let’s talk about it!
Before I used to make Chocolate I wouldn’t dream of talking about Christmas until the beginning of December. Mince pies were a treat to look forward to and I would stock up on these on the 1st of December and eat my last mince pie on Boxing Day.
Now, we start getting asked in October when our Christmas Range will be released. What can I say?!
We attend events in November and really it is a sign of the times that people are so busy in December that they have to be organised earlier and earlier every year.
As the festive season comes upon us, we do hope that you will get a chance to relax and have some fun too! Our last lot of chocolate making workshops for 2015 are running on Sunday 15th November – come and be inspired to make your own gifts. Or chill out with one of Alright Petal’s fabulous Wreath Making workshops.
We kick start our Christmas with our annual mulled wine and mince pie evening – including our lovely friends: Alright Petal, The Beady Gecko, Carla Pownall Pottery and Kims Krafts. (11th November 7pm to 9pm)
We are then delighted to be part of the Fabulous Frost Fair at Claremont Farm on 20th to 22nd November. They have their amazing VIP Launch night on 20th November in the evening, a day of Demos on the Saturday and then a family day on the Sunday. Sounds lovely and in such a beautiful setting too!
Following on from that we will be at the Wallasey Village Christmas Night on 26th November.
… 4 days after that I’ll have my first mince pie 😉
Hope you have a great build up to the festive season,
Bala x
Happy July
We hope you have had a good start to July. The Sun is starting to show some signs of making an appearance here.
Our last weekend in June was fabulous as we were at the wonderful St Georges Hall with so many amazing independent artists. It was an absolute delight to be there.
The atmosphere was so warm and welcoming. The organisers, Open Culture, did an amazing job.
We were then treated to the delights of Port Sunlight and were at “Handmade Fairs” which is jointly run by Port Sunlight Trust and Landbaby and Co. The setting was beautiful – we were in Bridge Cottage. Bridge Cottage is one of the largest and most architecturally significant in Port Sunlight. It is thought to have been built for the creator of the Lever Brothers Empire William Hesketh Lever who lived there on occasion between 1893 and 1900 while his primary residence in Thornton Hough was being renovated. Bridge Cottage has been continuously occupied by someone of important standing within the village and factory communities since 1900, including the schoolmaster, gallery curator, an eminent Dutch scientist, and the Lever Brothers company secretary. During the First World War it functioned as a crèche for women working in the factory and in the Second World War it suffered bomb damage after a land mine was dropped close by. More recently, the cottage has been home to the ministers of Christ Church until it was sold to Port Sunlight Village Trust in July 2015.
The next Handmade Fair at Bridge Cottage is on 11th September so put a date in your diaries if you would like to see the inside of this lovely place.
Other dates for your diaries:
9th July – Wirral Farmers Market;
9th July – Claremont Farm Summer Social
16th July – S-Luxe sample sale fashion show at Camp and furnace
23rd July – West Kirby Farmers Market
24th July – Dabble workshop open to public at Claremont farm Wirral -prebooking essential.
Hope we’ll catch up with you soon!
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