My Chocolate Paradise

Exactly two days, eleven hours, and forty minutes ago, we went to a chocolate making workshop. The taste of icing may be permanently stuck on my tongue. It's in a kibbutz called Dafna, and in my opinion, it has the potential to out-do Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.

First, we entered the chocolate store. All over the room there were chocolate shoes, footballs, teddy bears, and love hearts with all kinds of chocolate flavours. It got even better as we visited the museum.

The museum was only a room big, but you could see all the workers making chocolate through a glass wall. I was kind of hoping they would be short and orange with curly green hair, but oompa loompas or not, it was still awesome to watch the process of chocolate making. On the other side of the room, we could see the chocolate masterpieces - I had a few favourites.

After we had a look at the museum, we went to our chocolate workshop. A lady was waiting in a large room lined with tables. First, we were quizzed about the different types of chocolate, how to tell them apart, and its history. She let us taste chocolate without the sugar, and our reaction wasn't pretty.

Next, she scattered small, laminated drawings over the table. We picked our own, and I chose a cute, little mouse. The drawings were simple and easy to trace, which is exactly what we did with chocolate icing. We went over all the lines, and then filled the middle in with white chocolate, leaving just the outline.

While we waited for those to freeze, the lady squirted a thick strip of white chocolate across the table. She gave us a plate filled with sprinkles, another with coconut, and our own with four chocolate truffles. We got to decorate them. We rolled them into balls and dipped them in the white chocolate to stick our chosen toppings together. We could also keep them as cubes and just layer the top with the white chocolate, then design it with our leftover chocolate icing.

As we added the final touches to our truffles, our other creations had set. The lady called out our names and we came up to collect them - they turned out so well! We were sitting next some friendly americans, and we all joined in a celebratory picture.