Chocolate Apprentice

Fabulous Fat

I have been watching and re-watching the video on the Ecole Chocolate website, detailing how to create hand-made transfer sheets, which are used to decorate the tops of chocolates.

It looks fascinating and fun and I can’t wait to try it out.  The beautiful sheets of coloured, tempered cocoa butter, flecked with gold lustre dust, shown at the end of the video will, I am sure make the perfectly enrobed chocolates, which I am determined to master, become small pieces of modern art. [Read more…]

Why We Eagerly Await the Post

It’s been like Christmas at our house.  These days, whenever we get one of those “you have a package at the post office” notices on the door, I get very excited.

Because these days, the package is usually light, and covered in FRAGILE notices.  And when the brown paper wrappings are torn off, and the packing paper lifted away, there is a smaller, beautifully crafted, and carefully positioned box inside.  This box, when lifted to the nose, exudes heavenly aromas, and my salivary glands respond like Pavlov’s dogs. [Read more…]