My best friend has everything, every year on her birthday I deliberate over what I can buy her that she hasn’t already got… jewellery, make-up, bags, chocolates, DVD’s… not so inspiring - so this year I thought I’d get her an experience instead. I found the Green & Black’s Chocolate Making on Buy a Gift which, although cost more than I’d usually spend I decided it would be worth the money as it would be something fun we could do together.
We were both really excited about the experience when we turned up on the Sunday, in the cold and the rain to a deserted Farringdon side road where we (along with everyone else who’d booked the session) were left waiting outside for about 15 minutes. The building was uninspiring on the outside far from the quaint, romantic, well lit little chocolate shop I’d envisaged. Once we finally stepped inside the building was like a small factory, very industrial and I think everyone was a bit bemused as we headed down to the basement. Having watched a thriller the previous night, my imagination did start to wonder as to whether we were going to make chocolate or just be murdered…
Luckily, we weren’t murdered! Instead we were greeted by our chocolate making expert who was very welcoming and got us all seated in what looked like a home economics room at school. He explained the process of making chocolate, had us tasting various chocolate and demonstrated certain techniques we would try to make our own chocolate truffles and buttons. The session was actually a lot of fun and we’d definitely had our fill by the time we left! We also had a lot of chocolates to take home.
Here’s our little group!
