The Chocolate Experience with Chocolatier Melanie Boudar
Sweet Paradise Chocolatier is happy to announce the first series of Chocolate workshops. These workshops are a fun way to learn more about fine chocolate and meet fellow chocoholics!
Intro to Fine Chocolate Tues Dec 18th 7:00- 9:00 Pm
From Mayan and Aztec uses of cacao seeds for currency to our present passion for infinite flavors of gourmet confections, chocolate has played an important role in many world cultures over the centuries. Instructor Melanie Boudar will take you on a chocolate journey through the ages, exploring its intriguing origins, history and uses, including the current chocolate health craze. Learn how chocolate is produced and enjoyed.
We will do an extensive tasting of some of the worlds finest single origin chocolates, where you will learn to distinguish and appreciate their subtle flavors and textures. Join me for an evening of Chocolate immersion. Tuition: $40. Limited to 12 participants.
A New Years Chocolate Eve- Dec 31st 7:00-10:00PM
Try a little something different this New Years Eve. In addition to our intro to fine chocolate and tasting of chocolate from some of the finest chocolate producers from Italy, Venezuela, Madagascar, France and Hawaii, we will learn how to pair chocolates and chocolate desserts with wine, spirits and champagne.A fun evening of chocolate and spirited conversation is on the menu. Tuition: $60.00 Limited to 12 participants.
Introduction to Chocolate Making- Saturday Feb 9th, 2008 10:00am to 3:00PM
Further your knowledge of chocolate in this lecture/demonstration and hands on class where we learn about the unusual chemistry of chocolate. Participants will prepare a classic ganache and prepare hand-dipped and hand decorated truffles just in time for Valentines Day. Proper serving and storing techniques will be discussed. Everyone will take home a decadent Valentines box of their gourmet creations.
A light deli style lunch will be served. Tuition $ 125 Limited to 12 participants.
Chocolate Eco Adventure in Belize Mid May 2008
Join Chocolatier Melanie Boudar for a fun and adventure filled week in Belize, a Central American country that grows cacao for Green & Blacks Organics. Participants will tour a working chocolate farm, chocolate co-op, and learn hands on how chocolate is processed from Bean to Bar. In addition, we will learn to prepare authentic Mole . Lodging is in the comfortable and unique Eco resort, Cotton Tree Lodge, accessible by a 45 min boat ride up a river in southern Belize. Included are day trips to ancient Mayan ruins, and an ocean snorkelling trip to a nature preserve. Please email for rates and further info.
email to hawaiichocolate@gmail.com to register or call Melanie 557-5358. Classes will be taught at her home in Volcano.
Melanie is the 2007 winner of the Kona Chocolate Festival Judges Choice Award, and a graduate of Ecole Chocolat in Canada and the Culinary Institute of America Artisan Confections program. She is a founding member of the Fine Chocolate Industry Association www.finechocolateindustry.org
