The excellent chocolatiers behind Yarra Valley Chocolaterie, Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie and Mornington Peninsula Chocolaterie are keeping us nice and toasty with a delightful hot chocolate festival this August. Expect 31 tasty flavours, with fun and creative elements like croffle sticks and boozy truffles. The flavours will rotate each week, so you can keep coming back for more. Check it out from August 1 to 31.
Hot Chocolate Festival
If these chocolateries sound familiar, it’s because they’ve thrown other tasty food festivals this year, celebrating ice cream, rocky road and more.
Now, they’ve created 31 new delicious and decadent flavours for you to indulge in. All of them will feature milk, dark, white, ruby or caramelised white couverture chocolate, as well as a giant fluffy marshmallow and playful elements for stirring, dunking and slurping.
During the festival, there will also be hot chocolate tasting sessions. In a 45 minute, hands-on session, you’ll sip and sample eight delicious flavours. On top of that, you’ll get to choose from 50 ingredients to make personalised hot chocolates at home. Make three of your own “hot chocolate spoons”, take them home, add hot milk and voila! Your own decadent hot chocolate, suited to your taste. These tasting sessions run on select days, and bookings are essential. Each session is $28 per person.
You can also vote for your favourite festival flavour for a chance to win your body weight in 1kg couverture chocolate blocks.
Can’t make it to any of their three locations? No worries! There will also be DIY kits for you to order online and try at home.
Festival locations
- Yarra Valley Chocolaterie – 35 Old Healesville Rd, Yarra Glen VIC 3775
- Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie – 1200 Great Ocean Rd, Bellbrae VIC 3228
- Mornington Peninsula Chocolaterie – 45 Cook St, Flinders VIC 3929