Chocolate Tales

Just had our first experience with Chocolate Tales at the Goemans appliance store in Vaughan.
What a fantastic experience!
Chocolatier Dave was fun and very knowledgeable as he taught us how to create our very own truffles. The class is roughly one and a half hours and you create around 20 truffles.
Gentleman, if you are searching for a date idea, look no further!

I went to the Unilocal event and had an amazing time!
Our host Dave was super nice and very informative. I learned a lot about chocolates, Truffles and the background of chocolate making.
We filled chocolate shells and decorated them. I had the most fun covering them in chocolate and getting my hands dirty.
Making the truffles was just as fun. you cut them into shapes and dip them in chocolate. While still wet you can coat them in 5 different materials (design prints, milk chocolate crunch, dark chocolate crunch, coco powder, maple crunch).
I loved it so much I rold my friend who is getting married she needs to heir them and my sister in law to get them for my niece and nephew’s birthday parties.
I highly recommend everyone try the. more than once!!! Who doesnt love chocolate! And the white chocolate gnash is to die for

What a fun night. Thanks Kris and UnilocalGTA!!!
I attended a truffle making workshop put on by chocolate tales. It was held at goemans appliances of all places. We took over the fantastic dream model kitchen for the evening.
An aside: this place is awesome will be back to shop — I need a new washer!
David from chocolate tales was our instructor for the night. Great teacher.
You might wonder why the heck we were at an appliance store making truffles. Was it a store promotion? Do they regularly have classes? Am I punking you?
Nope. Chocolate tales is an event service business. They don’t have a store front, or workshop room. They travel around the GTA holding workshops in cafes, pubs, appliance stores, homes, businesses. You can rent them. They bring all the supplies, set up and clean up!
So we started piping chocolate into a chocolate shell and topping it with more chocolate. Easy and not messy. That comes later.
We were given chocolate blocks and cut out to punch out shapes, dip them in chocolate and decorate them. Fun and easy and messy. Well messier for some *cough me cough*
Then we got to make chocolate balls with the left over chocolate. Everyone made perfectly formed pretty round balls. Mine looked more like cat poop. They were ovalish no matter what I did. Still tasted darn good when I ate it! Best part of this, if you messed anything up you just ate the mistakes. Note: I made a lot of mistakes!
Hands covered in chocolate we rolled the first shelled balls in chocolate and chilled them in the model fridge.
They gave us fancy bags and ribbons to put our confections in. And boxes.
This was such a fun night. Chocolate tales was great. Can’t wait to hire them for the next bachlorette party or baby shower I host!

I always see specials on chocolate making classes and tell myself I would one day go to one. I was delighted to be able to attend one hosted by Chocolate Tales.
I was a bit surprised to pull up to Goeman’s Appliances and didn’t know what to expect. Our class was held in one of Goeman’s functional model kitchens. This particular space fit 12 of us comfortably.
David, our instructor, is also the owner of Chocolate Tales. He was very knowledgeable about chocolate and walked us through just about everything; from the history of chocolate throughout the world, to how to fill truffles, to how to enrobe our truffles with chocolate, to everything in between. He showed us how to properly temper chocolate and let us taste test everything… multiple times.
For this particular class, we focused on truffle making. We filled truffle casings with chocolate, cut out fun shapes from a slab of workable chocolate ganache, and rolled the remaining ganache into little balls. All of these were later dipped in the aforementioned tempered chocolate. David showed us how to make each truffle and was very thorough with the instructions. We were all pros at truffle making by the end of the night. We were also given several different confections to decorate our truffles with such as milk and dark chocolate covered rice crispies, crushed maple sugar, and transfer sheets that gave our chocolate a cool tattoo look.
Everyone in the class had an awesome time and David was very easy going, joking with us throughout the two hours. This class, or any of the others offered by Chocolate Tales would make for a great birthday, bachelorette, or team building activity.

What a fun and interactive way to spend the evening!
I did the chocolate truffle workshop at the Vaughan location inside the Geomans Appliances store.
The workshop took place in this beautiful functioning model kitchen. The kitchen is well equipped with modern appliances and kept in spotless condition.
David was such an awesome chocolate master. He started off the workshop with a fun history lesson on chocolate. And we got to make our own chocolate truffles (different variety of truffles). I had no experiences with making truffles before but David made it easy and fun. A generous amount of chocolate supplies were provided. We got to snack on the chocolate and toppings as we were making our truffles.
The best part of the workshop was that we got to take our finished products home in nice little gift bags and boxes. They tasted so rich and heavenly. I made about 25 pieces of truffle to take home; well not all 25 of them survived the car ride home as I couldn’t resist the temptation of putting them in my mouth (don’t judge, you can’t pass on such good chocolate :))
Overall, we had a great evening. This workshop is a great idea for girls night out, birthday party, or bachelorret events. Will definitely return for future events.

What an amazingly fun evening spent with David our chocolate master as he taught our group the art of truffle making last night! Chocolate Tales is a service business so it does not have a bricks and mortar location, however that doesn’t stop them from servicing Southern Ontario at an assortment of host venues all over the 416 and 905.
One of their regular locations is the Goemans Appliance store located on Chirsalea rd in Vaughan, which is where we took our class last night. David sets up a tasty, interactive and fun learning kitchen right in one of their working model kitchens.
Wasting no time he took our group through a brief history of chocolate before bridging the history lesson into the type of chocolate we’d be making that night — Truffles! I’m no expert at making chocolates but with David’s easy to follow approach to chocolate making anyone (even a guy like me who is all thumbs) feel like a master Chocolatier!
Over the course of 2 hours we made about 20+ truffles each (whilst eating a lot of the supplies along the way). The class is casual, fun, interactive and easy (good for all skill levels) David was very reassuring throughout and I can totally see myself booking a session like this for a private group of friends in the future!
Speaking of other bookings, I recommend you check out the chocolate tales website to see all the different kinds of events they do, which are perfect for Bachelorette parties, girls nights out, kids birthday, etc, etc
A great way to break up the work week and hey… i got chocolate out of the deal!
Eatcrest Out!

Our Vaughan’s «truffles making workshop» takes place at Goemans Appliances, the kitchen appliance store (a maze of refrigerators and ovens, and a working kitchen). Water and coffee are provided, as well as
— GENEROUS amount of chocolate
— generous amount of decorations
— a big fridge to cool the chocolates asap
— the microwave to keep the chocolates warm and easy to work with
— did I mention the GENEROUS amount of chocolate? Even if you’re tempted to snack on everything, there will be ample left.
And:
A history lesson on chocolate.
Lots of laughter.
Daniel is our talented chocolatier and teacher. He’s super friendly and the class was well-​organized. He kept our working area clean, nobody fought for space or tools, and he kept the class moving fairly quickly. I was afraid chocolate will drip onto my camera, it didn’t. Liquidy chocolate is messy!!!
In our class, we did:
Truffle set #1: fill pre-​made truffle cups
Truffle set #2: stamp shapes out of a soft chocolate bar, mine were triangles.
Truffle set #3: roll the remaining soft chocolate bar into little chocolate balls
We dip all of the above into his beautiful, tempered chocolate and decorate. I made a snowman.
I recommend this delicious class!