Learn the skills of patisserie chefs to impress your dinner guests and family!

On this day long course you will be making a range of stunning decorations with chocolate and modelling chocolate to enable you to adorn cakes, desserts and other sweet creations.

We will cover making chocolate flowers, curls, plaquettes, handmade and bought chocolate transfers, cigarillos, teardrops, casings for individual desserts, moulded chocolate roses, chocolate waves, spheres and more!

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This course is taught by Shona Sutherland, winner of the Chocolate Category of the Scottish Baking Awards 2014, the Chocolate Category of the National Chocolate Awards at the Perth Chocolate Festival 2014, Gold Medal and Best in Class Winner at the Scottish Culinary Championships in the Chocolate Display Class at ScotHot 2015 and Gold and Silver Medal winner for filled chocolates at ScotHot 2017. 

Price per person £120

Time: 10am until 5pm.

Venue: Taystful, 1A High Street, Blairgowrie, PH10 6ET.

Restrictions: This course is only available to those over 16 years of age, unless accompanied by a paying and participating parent or guardian.

Please wear comfortable kitchen safe shoes (no open toes or slippy soles). Aprons will be supplied. Please bring a light lunch to have during the day.

NB. Not suitable for sufferers of allergens: soya lecithin, milk, gluten, nuts, eggs or peanuts, as traces or substantial amounts are present in the ingredients we use. Artificial colourings will also be used.

Courses terms of sale:

Only once payment is made is your place reserved on the course. Unfortunately we cannot refund course payments if an attendee cancels and a replacement attendee cannot be found. At the discretion of Taystful, in some circumstances, the payment may be transferred to another course. Refunds of course payments will be made if the course is cancelled by Taystful. If courses are not filled there is a possibility of a course not going ahead, but we will try our best to have the course running regardless! You will be informed of this if it happens and refunded money paid for the course. 

No money will be refunded in any cases for accommodation or travel, please make sure you have adequate event/travel insurance in place to cover this and the course payment if you cannot attend due to illness, adverse weather or any other reason.