BLUE MOUNTAINS CHOCOLATE COMPANY
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Reporter: ADAM DIGBY
Adam is learning the art of making exquisite hand made chocolates with an expert European chocolatier … just in time for Easter!
There’s a delicious delight waiting for you down Echo Point way at Katoomba and if you just happen to be a chocoholic or a classic chocolate fruit and nutcase, this will be your Mecca.
Chocolate Making Course
Learn the art of making exquisite handmade chocolates with Didier, the expert European chocolatier. The course runs for 3 hours and has been designed to teach the basics of chocolate making.
The course is hands on & practical and allows participants to learn how to:
- temper chocolate
- make a delicious truffle
- complete a chocolate using the moulding method.
And because it’s Easter the course also includes the making of Easter eggs … but these are Easter eggs with a difference! These are Easter eggs that you can make for that special someone … and they include a personal handwritten message inside. Aw … isn’t that sweet?
Participants are guaranteed to get that specialist treatment and guidance to ensure their chocolate making experience is personalised to perfection. After the class you can indulge with a real hot chocolate and slice of delicious cake and take the time to ask the expert chocolatier all those chocolate questions you’ve ever wanted to know the answer to.
The course costs $150 and includes chocolates, refreshments and all recipes.
Café & Chocolate Making Demonstration
The Blue Mountains Chocolate Company has free tastings, a multi-media display of the facts and history of chocolate, a choice of more than 60 different chocolates plus a viewing gallery where visitors can watch European chocolate makers practise their craft.
The chocolatiers are nearly always on show demonstrating their art and skill, but on most days at 11:30am and 3:30pm one of them will actively demonstrate and talk on a particular aspect of the chocolatier's craft.
Learn things like how we make hollow Easter eggs, what fills a chocolate, and what needs to be done to chocolate to use it correctly.
The café is the perfect place to take some time out, have a real hot chocolate, a slice of cake and watch the chocolate magicians do their thing!
More Information
Blue Mountains Chocolate Company
176 Lurline Street, Katoomba
Telephone: (02) 4782 7071
www.bluemountainschocolate.com.au
Hands on courses are $150 per person.
Prices correct as at 07/04/07
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Bunjaree offers four delightful eco-friendly cottages, each in its own fabulous bush setting. The spacious one or two bedroom cottages sleep two to six people, are fully self-contained and come with quality linen and the special character of homes that are well-loved and cared for.
Each cottage is secluded from every other, constructed from local materials and solar powered. Rain water is harvested. Standards of comfort are high with quality beds and lounges, televisions and CD players in all cottages, DVDs in two and a two person spa in Wattle.
Bunjaree cottages are a small demonstration of a world which can be both incredibly beautiful and more sustainable. Each of the cottages is specially designed for the Blue Mountains environment.
The cottages are completely solar powered and is the most environmentally friendly accommodation in the Blue Mountains area.
More Information
Bunjaree Cottages
62 Railway Parade, Wentworth Falls
Telephone: (02) 4757 3096
www.bunjareecottages.com.au
Stay for two nights on the weekend from $320 per couple
Prices correct as at 07/04/07