At the Chocolate Show in London's Olympia exhibition Centre, (Kensington Olympia railway station alongside) you can seed chocolate tabletop models of owls and other sculptures. How do they make them? Could you do the same?
I bought a chocolate kit from Tesco Express some time ago of a hand-high house with two little trees and this was made by my family for a dinner party. I have also bough chocolate moulds online. You can buy all sorts of sets.
The chocolate show did not have any sets to buy that I could see. But they did have make your own lollipop for children on the York Cocoa House chocolate stand and that was very popular. The children had a disc of chocolate the size of an espresso cup saucer on a lollipop wood stick. On the table was a choice of items to sprinkle on or stick down as decoration.
One little girl aged about 8-10 had arranged a pastel colour of matching oval pieces carefully around the edge. They looked like flower petals.
A smaller boy, aged 5-7 had happily scattered assorted colours randomly like abstract art. Another older boy, aged 11-13, was working seriously and meticulously on a more carefully designed abstract with sprinkles the shape of pencil leads in different colours. More like an Impressionist painter doing limbering up or tuning up.
On another table I saw small marshmallows, white contrasting with the dark chocolate background, making a 3D face with eyes and a nose and a mouth and a necklace. You could cut them up to make teeth.
At home if you had a kit, or skill, you could to a shark with marshmallow teeth. I think children and parents would love this and be inspired to start chocolate making and decorating food at home.
If you miss the show in London, you can go to the York Cocoa shop all year. In fact York is chocolate city with tours.
I bought a chocolate kit from Tesco Express some time ago of a hand-high house with two little trees and this was made by my family for a dinner party. I have also bough chocolate moulds online. You can buy all sorts of sets.
The chocolate show did not have any sets to buy that I could see. But they did have make your own lollipop for children on the York Cocoa House chocolate stand and that was very popular. The children had a disc of chocolate the size of an espresso cup saucer on a lollipop wood stick. On the table was a choice of items to sprinkle on or stick down as decoration.
One little girl aged about 8-10 had arranged a pastel colour of matching oval pieces carefully around the edge. They looked like flower petals.
A smaller boy, aged 5-7 had happily scattered assorted colours randomly like abstract art. Another older boy, aged 11-13, was working seriously and meticulously on a more carefully designed abstract with sprinkles the shape of pencil leads in different colours. More like an Impressionist painter doing limbering up or tuning up.
On another table I saw small marshmallows, white contrasting with the dark chocolate background, making a 3D face with eyes and a nose and a mouth and a necklace. You could cut them up to make teeth.
At home if you had a kit, or skill, you could to a shark with marshmallow teeth. I think children and parents would love this and be inspired to start chocolate making and decorating food at home.
If you miss the show in London, you can go to the York Cocoa shop all year. In fact York is chocolate city with tours.
