Slattery's is a family run business and I've been to the restaurant there so many times before that I'm friends with the guy at reception. As per I was the first to arrive in that hallowed hall, with all the tempering machines it was enough to make my mouth water and i felt rather inclined to stick my head under the flow of chocolate...
They started the afternoon with a talk about where the lovely brown gooey stuff comes from and its journey from a bean into my tummy.We then proceeded to play with the stuff and made a teddy bear and chocolate cups using moulds, lollipops and truffles.Of course to help minimise the clearing up I went round hoovering up the left over chocolate.
For the moulds, we filled them with chocolate from the tempering machines then held the mould over a vibrating tray to get rid of the air bubbles,we then scraped off the excess chocolates and left the chocolate to set before putting on a second layer. Unfortunatley one of my chocolate cups was coated too thinly and it shattered. leading to a trip to the chocolate hospital where vast amounts of chocolate glue had to be applied.
Wearing a white apron was definatley a mistake as by the end of the season it was a lovely shade of brown as was the rest of me lol.
