This hands-on workshop takes a journey through York’s confectionery industry as it developed from a Medieval trading city to become the home of the world’s most famous chocolate bars.
Location: The Mansion House

Time: 11:00 – 13:00

Cost: £17.50 Adult, £12 Child

Learn how to make the products that made York the Chocolate City and join us for a journey through York’s confectionery industry as it developed from a Medieval trading city to become the home of the world’s most famous chocolate bars.

We will start with a look at Mary Tuke. As a Female Quaker and a merchant, she traded in new and exotic drinks in York – Tea, Coffee and Chocolate. In 1862 the business was taken over by Henry Isaac Rowntree, who developed the small shop into a large industrial manufacturing business. The 1930’s saw a revolutionary era in brand and product development, following the first world war many products became standardised, Mr Mars came to the UK with his eponymously named chocolate bar and Rowntrees realised they need to act fast and change their approach to marketing. Many of our well-loved confectionery products were created in the 1930’s, including the Chocolate Crisp – a chocolate bar of creamy milk chocolate, wafer with praline layered between the wafer layers, now better known as the Kit Kat. We’ll get hands on tasting and learning how to make products through the city’s ever changing chocolate industry.

During this workshop you will learn why the confectionery trade grew in Yorkshire through its recipes and ingredients, tasting and making York’s famous sweets and chocolates as you learn!
This is a York Cocoa House workshop. For further details, please go to http://thechocolatecitydiscoveringthechocolatemakers-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C#