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avatarChoco-Laté Festival

By Joanna Maligaya on September 30, 2011 | Comments (0)

People who come to pay a visit at the Bruge’s Choco-Laté Festival, held in the Belfort bell tower, can relish their much loved dessert in whatever shapes & forms possible! So all you chocoholics, listen up and unite. Succumb to your every chocolate craving and indulge in your favorite sweet treat!

Choco-Laté is the annual festival of our favorite guilty pleasure. The vibes that chocolatiers give off at several stands lure the customers and magically bring them to a chocolate haven.

The festival will be hosting an array of activities to make visitors drool with tons of interesting and fun interactive programs such as body painting, chocolate recipe exhibitions, creations such as sculpture by chocolate artists and sculptors, a chocolate village for the little ones, and a “chocolate walk” through the town of Bruges, among many others.

The patrons are given a chance to learn about chocolate creations and recipes that are easy enough to do by themselves during live demonstrations by top chefs, bakers and chocolatiers.

Today, chocolate is used as a health aid and also for aesthetic purposes, not just to curb our sweet tooth cravings. Some of the innovative means of using chocolate are through treatments such as chocolate massages, chocolate packs or cocoa therapies.

Practically any chocolate is tempting, but as with what was stated on yesterday’s blog post, pairing it with a nice glass of wine will surely kick the chocolate delight up a notch. Choco-Laté will be revealing the art of delectably combining chocolate with other delicacies. Case in point: fruits dipped in chocolate fondue, and that is just one of the basics.

And finally, for the true blue chocolate lovers, the festival presents a Choco-Laté junior – a creative corner for kids where they can nourish their imagination in chocolate through fun body painting, sculpting and decorating, and many more.

When: 11 – 13 Nov 2011
Where: Belfort, Belgium,
Cost: €10; under 12s €6; under 6s free
Opening Hours: 10am-6pm

For more details, visit www.choco-late.be/en.

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avatarChocolate Board Game

By Bryn Kirk on May 19, 2010 | Comments (1)

Chocolate-opoly?  Check this out…

Chocolate-opoly is a decadently delicious property trading game for chocolate lovers.  Come again?

I haven’t had the pleasure of playing this game, so it could be fun, but I just gotta laugh thinking about it.  Keep reading.

According to the manufacturer, Late for the Sky, in Chocolate-Opoly you buy your favorite chocolate properties (ah, what would those be?), collect chunks of chocolate (not cool if not real) and requires you to suppress your chocolate cravings or get sent to Chocoholics Anonymous (as if there’s something wrong with being a chocoholic!).

Wait – there’s more…

You have to pay roasting fees!  This just gets better and better.

Here’s the tag line, “Dark, milk, bittersweet, semi-sweet, in a shake, filled with caramel, covered in nuts, or as a warm, frothy brew–there’s nothing the cocoa bean can’t do!” 

Ok then.  Who sniffed glue and then wrote that?  (of course I agree with the concept, it’s the rhyme that makes me chuckle)

All this for the list price of $29.99.  I’m thinking about all the decadently delicious chocolate I can get for that!   For real!

But, hey, I’m not really the board-game type.  If you are, maybe this would be a fun way to expand your time in the world of chocolate. 

If you’ve played it, you’re welcome to leave your own comment here in the blog.  Tell others what they can expect.

(The Chocolate-opoly text link and image link above will redirect you to Amazon where you can get the game for $10 off the list price, last time I checked.)

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avatarNeed a Chocolate Fix?

By Jeffrey Kirk on September 9, 2009 | Comments (2)

In one of our weekly lessons we suggest that our students think outside the box looking for other chocolate related products.  One of our students reported that she found a product called Chocolate Fix.  This is an idea of thinking inside the “chocolate box.”

Chocolate Fix
Buy Chocolate Fix

Chocolate Fix is a single-player game where the pieces are in the shape of chocolate candies.  Basically this is a logic, problem solving, game where you have nine chocolates in three different colors and three different shapes.  Each exercise gives you clues as to how you put them into the “chocolate box”.

Think “chocolate meets Sudoku!”  Each 3×3 grid has only one possible solution based on the clues provided.  The easiest levels are quite straight forward and help you understand the notation of the clues.  The tougher levels provide an addicting challenge.  One of the lessons I learned is that apparently a chocolate addiction can apply to something that just looks like chocolate!  Or maybe it’s a game addiction, a problem solving addiction – heck I don’t know.

After working your way through the various levels you’ll be ready to eat the pieces.  Since they’re made of plastic, you better have some real chocolate on hand to get yourself through the experience.  This way even if the game proves that you’re not much of a logic problem solver, you still go away victorious having shown the chocolate bar who’s boss!

The game is inexpensive and would make a great chocolate gift for yourself or for a chocolate lover in your life.  For more information just click the photo.  It’s already a link over to the product on Amazon.com.

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