Boutique Mini Pastries Lindt Chocolate Course

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well! On the 5th of September my mother and I did another Lindt Chocolate course on Boutique Mini Pastries.

It was a lovely course about making things to serve at high tea!

Here are some photos I would like to share with you:

They showed us how to make, fill and decorate Chocolate Éclairs.

How to make Roasted Cocoa Nib Malva Pudding.

Intense Mint Swiss Roll. I love mint chocolate, but this was amazing!

How to make an Opera Gateau.

All photo credit goes to my mother! Love this photo!

 Mini Berliners (doughnuts) with a apricot filling

And a 85% Cocoa Swiss Truffle Torte. This was my dad’s favourite!

It’s a lovely course and it’s the most beautiful things you can come up with!

For people that would like to learn more recipes than just chocolate ones, this is the one you want to do!

I hope you all have a blessed week!

Chocolate Greetings

Photos Of My Brother CJ’s 18th Birthday!

I can’t believe it, my big brother is 18 years old! His birthday was on the 17th, and I thought I would share a few photos of his special day with you.

He is such a close friend of mine. We do lost of things together and I can tell him just about anything and know he would never tell anyone else. I enjoy washing dishes with him, making breakfast, lunch, dinner, clean up, wash the cars etc. I couldn’t have asked for a better older brother!

 He got a little car for his birthday!

I knew about it, and it was a HUGE challenge for me to keep it a secret from him! 

As a birthday present from me, I baked him a chocolate cake:

Lindt Chocolate’s Chocolate Cake recipe. With a coffee ganache, 

and an Amarula ganache,

and homemade chocolate cigars!

Me putting the cake together.

CJ with the cake.

It was VERY good!

Then on Saturday evening CJ and Josua (Josua’s birthday is exactly a week after CJ’s, on the 24th, so it was also for him) invited a few friends to the Lindt Chocolate Studio and they did the Chocolate Appreciation Course.

The group. 

In this course they learned a little about the history of chocolate, tasting different chocolates and decorating their own Lindor lollies! 

Josua’s lindor lolly-pop!

CJ went even further and made a little chocolatier face with a hat!

Love it!

They all enjoyed it so much! 

After the course they went to the Italian restaurant Andiamo for a pizza.

Photo’s taken by my dad and mom!

Have a blessed week everyone

Chocolate Greetings

My weekend....

This weekend my mother and I made chocolates we learned how to make on the Lindt Chocolate Moulding and Fillings course.

I though I’d share a few pictures with you:

Some of the tools we use and a few chocolates.

This is a chocolate warmer my dad made me. Well...yes we made a big mess!

We made quite a lot, but after separating them for deferent events 

(including CJ's 18th Birthday party) this next two week, I found out I wouldn't even have enough left to sell. 

Pink harts!

And blue ones!

Love this photo!

Some day I’ll sell them like this.

It was also VERY cold over the weekend and we had hail!

I was a little late with the camera, but you can still see it!

This is the closes Cape Town will come to snow....

Have a blessed week!