When: 9 July 2016
Where: The Palms, Woodstock
Cost: R100 (and some discount vouchers)
Patrons Present: Lucy, Fiona, Carla-Anne, Carol, Ana-Rita, Nadine, Rita
Organised By: Rita
1. Standard Tour:
At Rococoa guests will be welcomed with a wafer cone and liquid chocolate, then taken on a tour through an imitation cocoa plantation and a 17th century chocolate factory. Afterwards they will tour through the chocolate studio and they can get creative with some chocolate play dough, which they can eat or take home with them. Finally guests will be able to view a 20 minute educational movie on chocolate.
We arrived at The Palms on Saturday morning and found the Vintage Market was on the go. Some bought tasty nibbles then we proceeded to Rococoa where we were met by Gabi, the resident chocolatier. She took us through a detailed lecture of the process involved in getting chocolate as we know it, from the plantation to the processing of their cocoa fruit and then the way it was processed in an old kitchen with metal chocolate moulds.
We then proceeded to the kitchen where we tasted a commercial chocolate, an artisan chocolate and imported Belgian chocolate buttons. This was followed up with a mini sugar cone filled with liquid chocolate either dairy milk or dark chocolate. This was the highlight of the day. We had some lunch which included French toast with bacon and banana and chocolate sauce, an omelette, bacon and avo wrap and flapjacks. A good time was had by all.
We arrived at The Palms on Saturday morning and found the Vintage Market was on the go. Some bought tasty nibbles then we proceeded to Rococoa where we were met by Gabi, the resident chocolatier. She took us through a detailed lecture of the process involved in getting chocolate as we know it, from the plantation to the processing of their cocoa fruit and then the way it was processed in an old kitchen with metal chocolate moulds.
We then proceeded to the kitchen where we tasted a commercial chocolate, an artisan chocolate and imported Belgian chocolate buttons. This was followed up with a mini sugar cone filled with liquid chocolate either dairy milk or dark chocolate. This was the highlight of the day. We had some lunch which included French toast with bacon and banana and chocolate sauce, an omelette, bacon and avo wrap and flapjacks. A good time was had by all.
