I'm standing by the shelf with chocolate, choosing which bar to treat myself to today, and then I see a poster: "Chocolatier courses - make your life sweet!" I think it's fate. Who, if not me, deserves to know all the secrets of chocolate magic? The next day, I signed up for the course.
The first lesson began with a bit of chaos. As usual, I managed to mix up the day of the class and arrived at the course when everyone was already actively mixing chocolate masses. I flew into the classroom shouting: "Excuse me, is this where they teach chocolate tricks?" Everyone laughed, of course, and I began my chocolate journey with a smile. Now imagine: we are taught how to temper chocolate. It looks something like this - take a large slab of chocolate, melt it, then cool it down quickly and heat it up again. Sounds simple? Yeah, right! I managed to spill chocolate all over the kitchen. My tablemate, Tanya, called me the "Chocolate Queen of Chaos" all morning. But you know what? It was the sweetest madness of my life. We didn't just learn, we laughed, experimented, sometimes even competed to see who could make the funniest chocolate pattern. Once I even made a chocolate sculpture of a cat! It fell apart after a minute, but how beautiful it looked in the moment! So if you think that chocolatier courses are just learning, you are wrong. It is a real adventure, full of funny situations, unexpected discoveries and, of course, a mountain of chocolate. What else do you need to be happy? That's how I found my way to chocolate mastery. Now I don't just eat chocolate at home, I enjoy it with a sense of my own mastery. And, of course, every time I open a bar, I remember our fun activities and my first chocolate disaster. Chocolatier Marina.