Online Cooking Class: Dark Chocolates Delights
Learn to create decadent treats with fanciful fillings and complex flavors in this online cooking class!
With its tart top notes and rich texture, dark chocolate feels like a sinful pleasure, even with its well-documented health benefits. In this interactive virtual cooking class with Chef Sharon, you’ll craft a trio of sophisticated dark chocolate confections that qualify as candy for grown-ups! Create a hazelnut praline crunch with dark chocolate and crushed crêpes, tantalizing orange meltaways and a spicy hot chocolate lollipop made with extra brute cocoa power.
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Hazelnut Praline Crunch
Chocolate Meltaways
Spicy Chocolate Lollipops
Chef demonstrates each step and assists you as you perform each step.
Ask questions and have the chef check your progress.
- Recipes Recipes are sent in your booking confirmation.
- Ingredients Ingredients can be adapted for dietary restrictions or lack of availability.
- Technology Connect with the chef using Zoom on your computer, tablet or mobile device.
- Class Participation Chime in with questions through audio or chat. Use of video is optional.
- Class Minimum 4 guests
- Class Maximum 20 guests
- Event Duration 75 minutes
- LabelsGroup, Fun, Chocolate Making, Valentine's, Mother's Day, Teens, Gourmet, Holiday
Ingredients
54%-70% dark chocolate
28% white chocolate
Feuilletons (crushed crêpes), or cornflake cereal
Whole hazelnuts
Coconut oil
Ground cardamom
Ground cinnamon
Cayenne pepper
Salt, optional
Orange zest, ground coffee or vanilla extract
Natural orange extract
Dutch processed cocoa powder
Cocoa butter (optional)
Cinnamon sticks, skewers, popsicle sticks or candy canes
Mini marshmallows (optional)
Kitchen Equipment
Three bowls
Three rubber spatulas
Soft silicone chocolate molds (do not use clear plastic, hard plastic or polycarbonate molds), or parchment paper on baking sheets
Chef's knife, optional
Cutting board, optional
Gloves, optional
Handheld cheese grater, or zester
Medium-sized sifter
Microwave or double boiler
Three plastic pastry bags, or plastic freezer bags
Lollipop sticks (optional)
Freezer space to cool the chocolate
Reviews Guests Left For This Experience
Chari
01 Jan 2024
What a fun activity to do with my daughter and niece! We thoroughly enjoyed learning some new techniques and recipes, felt completely guided along the way, and the recipes turned out to be delicious! Thanks so much!
Eryn
24 Nov 2023
What a great intro to candy making! She made it so easy and attainable. I was also super impressed by her performance while working under the stress of the violence occurring where she was. I worry deeply about her safety. My heartfelt best goes out to our chef.
Larry
03 Sep 2023
Sharon was great. Very enjoyable and answered everyone's questions.
Meet your chef
As a skilled chef, baker and culinary school instructor, Chef Sharon wears many hats in the kitchen. She’s also a chocolatier, honing her skills at a French company in Carpenteria before founding her own chocolate and pastry company specializing in crafting homemade creations for events, hosting workshops and teaching classes —most featuring chocolate, of course! Chef Sharon hopes to share her passion with her students while teaching them how to make delectable treats from scratch.
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