Class Description:
This Valentine's Day, grab your soul mate, bestie, or partner, and discover your inner chocolate artiste. You’ll start with a perfect little bonbon. While savoring those delicious flavors, the chocolate becomes your muse as you paint watercolors onto canvas to capture the feeling and taste of each bite. Not artistic, you say? No worries—especially after the bubbly and a whole bunch more chocolate comes around.
As your chocolate diva/guide Ruth leads you through a specially designed chocolate flavor map, you relax into the process and walk away with a mini-gallery of colorful canvases that capture everything from deep red berry notes to yellow-dotted pointillism inspired by passionfruit. Bubbly and cheese will be provided!
***Vegan, nut-free, and gluten-free options are available. Please inform These Hands studio in advance if you need one of these options.
Age Group: Adults (18 and over)
Level: All levels welcome
Workshop Info:
Date: Friday, February 14, 2025
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location:
These Hands Maker's Collective
13347 W. Washington Blvd., Unit A
Los Angeles, CA 90066
About the Artist:
If you truly love chocolate, here’s your match: Ruth Kennison is L.A.’s “bean-to-bar chocolate queen” and number-one chocolate educator according to KCRW’s Good Food, The New York Times and others. Her sold-out classes cover every aspect of the chocolate-making process, from sourcing cacao to sprinkling pixie dust on delectable bonbons. Ruth is resident chocolate diva and chocolate instructor at The Gourmandise School, and founder of the The Santa Monica Chocolate Society (yes, a real thing). She trained at The French Pastry School in Chicago and the Callebaut Chocolate Academy, and travels the world, tasting, speaking and learning about the best chocolate. She is a popular international speaker about all aspects of chocolate and a frequent judge for chocolate awards. She created The Chocolate Project to share her love of chocolate and to help people find their “chocolate palate” and become better chocolate consumers. Find her at www.chocolate-project.com @chocproject and @smchocsociety.
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