Get ready to unleash your inner Willy Wonka with a delightful blend of chocolate making and illustration magic!

Taking place on "World Chocolate Day", this is perfect for every chocolate fan to enjoy. Not only will you be in a real life chocolate factory, under the tutelage of locally renowned chocolatier Jane Williams. You will also walk away with one of celebrated local artist, Hannah Grahams's amazing illustrations of YOU as a permenant memento of this special day. She will also give you insight into illustrating tips, step by step guide to capturing the essence of a single moment. This is the pinnacle of our chocolate workshops, and the highlight of our calender of events, so we are very excited to be able to invite you to enjoy this jam-packed creative session with us.

Here's what you can expect:

A Chocolate Masterclass from swiss trained chocolatier Jane Williams, who has been making chocolates for over 25 years. Enjoy tasting some of the culmination of her chocolate making career!

Create your own chocolate giant chocolate bar (an epic 500g) with all your own favourite ingredients. Whether you want to create a "Fudge Mallow Delight" or "Silver Linings", we will do our very best to help you create your perfect creation! We'll teach you how to use colourful cocoa butter colours to decorate your giant chocolate bar.

Make some 'silver whirls' with us, special chocolate whirls that you can choose the surprise inside

A Illustration masterclass from published illustrator and celebrated local artist, Hannah Graham. We are not expecting ANY prior experience, you don't have to be an artist to take part. Hannah is going to break down some skills we can all use to put pen to paper with magical effect.

Make surprise edible messages and illustrations to include inside your chocolate treats [with Rice paper & edible ink pens!!)

Create your own chocolate bar wrapper designs and paper bag for your own chocolates.

Hannah is also going to be quietly fading in the background to observe and put her own pen to paper, to capture your own moment in the chocolate factory, and she will give you your own portrait to take home at the end of the evening.

You will also of course, walk away with your own stash of goodies - your epic giant chocolate bar, and your silver whirls.

Can you imagine a more fun or special morning than this? We can't wait to see the memories that will be created here! Whether you are looking for an experience to give as a very special gift, you can come on your own or with friends. We will have a very warm welcome ready for you!

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