As always, I plan in advance what to do when kids holidays are here so I cAn take annual leave appropriately. While I researched to see if anything interesting was happening, Timeout had this Chocolate Museum workshops on and best of all it was in London!!! Woohoo! I didn't even know here was a chocolate museum? Did you? The price was quite reasonable too! £5/child. So I booked it, all excited and forgetting that Lucky had given up chocolates for Lent 🙈🙈🙈
The day came and of course I never tell the kids where we are going until we get there! Once they found out where we are going Mahi was ecstatic! Lucky was unstandingly quite angry at the choice of day out since she won't be eating the chocolates we make until Easter Sunday! So I allowed her that she can lick the chocolate while she makes it which made her happy!
The museum is a 5mins walk from Brixton station and looks like a shop front that we nearly missed it! The museum is small with workshops happening on the ground floor and a small exhibition at the basement! However, they made it quite homely. We were welcomed by a lovely staff member and introduced the kids about the workshops, what mounds they wanted and what type of cholcolate they wanted! Chocolate available were white, milk and dark. There were 4 mounds available: a medium sized duck which will become a solid chocolate, 4 lollipops, 1 egg and another which will produce 4 small eggs. Lucky picked white chocolate with the enormous egg and Mahi was mild lollipops. The kids got to first colour the stencil which they were also excited about. Theme they got to temper the chocolate and stir the chocolate until it came down to the right temperature. Once the right temperature was achieved, it was all about filling the mounds and licking off childcare of course! They really didn't need any lunch! Once they were set, we had to massage our moulds and tah-dah we had some yummy chocolate and it was yummy (because I was also involved in the chocolate licking process)!
I thought they was a lot of waiting around before and during the workshop. It would have been a good idea to explain the history of chocolate and for the kids to visit the exhibition as children were getting quite bored. The exechibition itself had some great information! They only had 2 staff for about 20children. The one that we were welcomed by was very friendly but the other staff member was rushing everybody and was not very friendly. She filled Mahi's mould instead of him filling it which kind of killed the fun for him! Although when booking it says 1hr, the workshop took 2hrs. You can leave the kids at the workshops and wander around Brixton if you wanted to. But if you wanted to stick around like I did, seating were only available in the basement!
Overall, the kids had a blast and the chocolate is truly delicious! They were so proud of their chocolate making skills and for £10 for both children, we had our money's worth. They also do adults workshops. For more info, here is the link: http://www.thechocolatemuseum.co.uk/
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