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Essential Ingredients:

• 6 ladies
• 1 tutor
• Milk, White and Dark Courveture Chocolate
• Ingredients for handrolled truffles, hand dipped truffles and moulded chocolates
• Light refreshments to keep our energy levels high
• Scrumptious selection of single origin chocolate for tasting

Well, we certainly had all of the above. 

With everyone ready and raring to go we began!   The workshop would run for approx 4 hours and at the end  our lovely participants would take home more chocolates than they could eat!  A bag of fresh lemon hand rolled and hand dipped truffles (using lemon zest and freshly squeezed lemon juice),  a bag of Amaretto truffles which really do taste amazing, and a box of moulded apricot ganache chocolates. 

I can’t think of a better way to spend a few hours.  So, if you would like to melt away in a chocolate hideout with only chocolate to think about,  come and try this workshop for yourself.  Contact us at Indulge@sarajanechocolates.co.uk to enquire about the workshops taking place. 

We look forward to welcoming you!

Deluxe Truffles made at our Chocolate Making Workshop

I was delighted to be able to offer some light relief to a local NCT branch recently.  Taking the night off from delivering babies and helping with all things childbirth related, a local group joined me to experience a totally different new beginning – the beginning of the life of a Chocolate Truffle!  (Ok, I know I’m pushing the whole new beginnings thing!)

The ladies spent a pleasurable few hours on a cold and wintry night making and eating chocolates.  Here is a photograph of the ladies decorating their truffles and a photograph of the proud parents and their new arrivals: 

It was a total pleasure to meet fellow chocoholics for a Champagne Truffle Chocolate workshop back in March.  The timing couldn’t have been better; the workshop had been purchased by some of the participants for their partners as either a Mother’s Day gift or a Valentines Gift.

I was delighted to welcome Jemima, Mike, Angus, Samantha and Marie to the workshop.  Some of the feedback from the day included:  “Absolutely Brilliant”, ”Fantastic”, ” Very Interesting, Informative and Fun”, “Loved it”

Here are some pictures of the group decorating their truffles and with their finished products!

We were very pleased to be hosting a Sea Salted Caramel Chocolate Workshop for Botanica Medica.  At Botanica Medica Jo and her team are professional herbalists and they specialise in providing easily accessible professional Herbal Medicine to the public.  Jo’s team of highly qualified medical herbalists offer free expert over-the-counter advice, private consultations, and very high quality herbal medicines which are prescribed to suit each patient’s individual needs.

Jo wanted to say a huge “Thank You” to her fabulous team and she decided to do it in the form of a Chocolate Workshop.  Jo contacted me and I was delighted to be able to accommodate her request for the workshop to be held on a Monday at the end of January.

The ladies arrived and we split them into 3 teams.  After a brief introduction and explanation of what they would be doing, each team armed with their recipe sheet rolled up their sleeves and began to create their Sea Salted Caramel.

Whilst the caramel cooled the ladies were introduced to the fabulously smooth melted chocolate.  They expertly filled their moulds then enjoyed a well-deserved refreshments break.  Much cake and handmade chocolates from our collection were enjoyed!

The ladies then enjoyed piping their caramel into their prepared moulds before closing the moulds and allowing them to set.

Time to clear the decks whilst the chocolates set and it was time to turn our attention to the packaging.

Then the moment everyone had been waiting for ….. turning out of the chocolates!  I have to admit to loving this part of the workshop because it’s great to see how really pleased everyone is when they see their very own, very professional looking chocolates.  The ladies were really pleased with how great their chocolates looked.

I would like to thank Jo for choosing a Sara Jane Chocolates Chocolate workshop and it was a pleasure to meet and talk to her really friendly team.  You can find out more about Jo’s company at http://www.botanicamedica.co.uk/