Chocolate Workshop in Barbican, last seats available
Barbican London EC2Y 8BU
Join Raffaella Baruzzo for a tasting event in Central London and discover more about chocolate and about your ability to use your senses of smell and taste.
During the tasting, Raffaella engages and guides the audience through the chocolates they are sampling, answers to questions and helps understanding.
You will be able to sample:
2 different 70% cocoa covertures, 2 different 100% cocoa covertures, 2 examples of acidity, 2 examples of tannin, 2 examples of sweetness, 3 pralines, and a glass of prosecco to finish off the evening.
Raffaella encourages discussions and opinions and helps the audience to actively compare the samples, guess the aromas, and understand the more subtle differences and notes. The group is showed the peculiarity of a preparation, a recipe, a particular cocoa type or a way to process it.
Chocolate Workshop on Thursday, learn how to taste chocolate - Barbican London @LondonNow @BarbicanCentre @FoodAtBarbican @BarbicanMums
Take part to a Chocolate Workshop hosted by Raffaella Baruzzo, founder of Baruzzo Chocolate
Get your ticket now, click here
Thur 29 march 7pm
83 Thomas More House
Barbican EC2Y 8BU London
A tasting session lasts around an hour and a half, during which Raffaella explains and guides the audience, tells stories and illustrates the secrets of cocoa. The guests are given samples of different chocolates, from bitter and intense to buttery and sweet. The selection of samples is designed to favour their understanding and it ranges from cheap commercial chocolate to pure and beautifully harmonious cocoa.
During the Tasting you will be able to sample:
2 different 70% cocoa covertures
2 different 100% cocoa covertures
2 examples of acidity
2 examples of tannin
2 examples of sweetness
3 pralines
A glass of prosecco to finish off the evening
Get your ticket now, click here
Raffaella encourages discussions and opinions and helps the audience to actively compare the samples, guess the aromas, and understand the more subtle differences and notes. The group is showed the peculiarity of a preparation, a recipe, a particular cocoa type or a way to process it.
Giveaway CONTEST now ON! Closing Wednesday Night at 10pm
Win a Chocolate Box + a Ticket for Chocolate Workshop
LAST CONTEST WINNER: Kathleen Benton
2 RULES:
1) Post a flower on our Facebook page (click here)
2) Sign up at Baruzzo with your address (click here)
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| The Prize for the Winner: Baruzzo Spring Chocolates Collection |
How it Works:
Post a flower on our Facebook page (click here):
Just like our page and upload your image of a flower and tell us why you like it.
Sign up with your address (click here):
Sign up is free. The winner of the contest we ll be sent a free floral box to the address they submitted. It is all on us!
Win a free flower chocolate box, delivered to your door and a Ticket to Thursday Event:
Wait till the end of the contest. The winning flower will be picked by Baruzzo and announced on Facebook on Sunday night. The winner will be shipped a beautiful box of Spring Chocolate Collection by Baruzzo
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| The amazing painting by Kathleen Benton |
The Winner for the past weekend Flower Contest is Kathleen Benton with her fashinating flower image.
Kathleen is an amazing painter we discovered during the contest this weekend.
She shared on our Facebook Page her flower full of energy and hope for a great Spring.
Thank you Kathleen and congratulations! Enjoy a beautiful box of flower chocolates, let us know what is your favourite!
Discover more about her refined art and paintings here
She shared on our Facebook Page her flower full of energy and hope for a great Spring.
Thank you Kathleen and congratulations! Enjoy a beautiful box of flower chocolates, let us know what is your favourite!
Discover more about her refined art and paintings here
Chocolate Tasting in Barbican London March 29th 7pm
Take part to a tasting hosted by Raffaella Baruzzo, founder of Baruzzo Chocolate
Get your ticket now, click here
Thur 29 march 7pm
83 Thomas More House
Barbican EC2Y 8BU London
A tasting session lasts around an hour and a half, during which Raffaella explains and guides the audience, tells stories and illustrates the secrets of cocoa. The guests are given samples of different chocolates, from bitter and intense to buttery and sweet. The selection of samples is designed to favour their understanding and it ranges from cheap commercial chocolate to pure and beautifully harmonious cocoa.
Raffaella encourages discussions and opinions and helps the audience to actively compare the samples, guess the aromas, and understand the more subtle differences and notes. The group is showed the peculiarity of a preparation, a recipe, a particular cocoa type or a way to process it.
The Online Flower Contest: Post a flower picture and win a box of Chocolates. Ends Sun 25th at 10pm
RULES:
1) Post a flower on our Facebook page (click here)
How it Works:
1) Post a flower on our Facebook page (click here)
Win this Flower Chocolate Box, delivered to your door
Post a flower on our Facebook page (click here):
Just like our page and upload your image of a flower and tell us why you like it. Remember to add the link to this page.
Sign up with your address (click here):
Sign up is free. The winner of the contest we ll be sent a free floral box to the address they submitted. It is all on us!
Win a free flower chocolate box, delivered to your door:
Wait till the end of the contest. The winning flower will be picked by Baruzzo and announced on Facebook on Sunday night. The winner will be shipped a beautiful box of Spring Chocolate Collection by Baruzzo
Have a lovely Spring!
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Chocolate Social Experiment with Oxford University Nobel Prize Winner and Baruzzo Chocolate
An amazing night with I-am Associates and Baruzzo Chocolate, with Nobel Prize Winner Oxford University Professor Charles Spence and incredible experiments of taste and colors at the Old School House in central London
Chocolate Tasting at Victoria&Albert Reading Rooms South Kensington
by Greg Salvatori
We just had an amazing night in Central London,
a chocolate tasting with Baruzzo Chocolate
at Victoria & Albert Reading Rooms in South Kensington.
It was a beautiful night, crowded with a lovely audience:
people were contributing actively, participating to the workshop,
tasting different kinds of chocolate and discussing their impressions.
Raffaella Baruzzo, founder of Baruzzo Chocolate,
presented the tasting and guided the audience
through the details and behind the scenes of chocolate making.
Raffaella Baruzzo has a long experience with chocolate preparations
and knows the different aspects of chocolate making in depth.
She spent years researching cocoa and she lived and worked
on cocoa plantations in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela.
She achieved a first-hand understanding of how the plants
and the beans transform into different qualities, and how the full process works,
from a seed to a beautifully packaged creation.
Our host, the lovely staff of Victoria & Albert Reading Rooms,
were amazing and made everyone feel comfortable.
Sophie, Eva, and Michelle made everything go smooth and easy,
working with them is such a pleasure.
The V&A Reading Rooms, at 8 Exhibition Road in South Kensington
is a stand alone, off-site bookshop which incorporates a wine bar.
A really uncommon spot in West London.
Small and intimate, the Rooms retain their original architectural features
- high ceilings, fine cornices and bay windows -
combined with the style and quirkiness of the V&A Shops.
Customers are able to read and to shop with,
if they so choose, a glass of chilled chablis in hand.
The extra reason to go to the V&A Reading Rooms:
every purchase supports the Victoria and Albert Museum,
the world's leading museum of art and design.
We are longing to be there again soon!
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Only give good chocolate for Mother's Day! Cheap Chocolate is FORBIDDEN!
by Greg Salvatori
There is absolutely no reason to eat bad chocolate! Life is to short.
Eat and give only fine chocolate: it is nicer, it is more beautiful, and it is healthier.
The good news? It does NOT cost a fortune! Baruzzo launched an Introduction Pack at £39.50, available till March 12th 2012.
Eat and give only fine chocolate: it is nicer, it is more beautiful, and it is healthier.
The good news? It does NOT cost a fortune! Baruzzo launched an Introduction Pack at £39.50, available till March 12th 2012.
This limited edition pack contains a range of the signature chocolate creations and a Large Box of Baruzzo Spring Collection 2012, the new floral selection of refined chocolates that includes Rose, Marigold, Camomile, Violet, Jasmine and Orange Blossom.
Baruzzo Chocolate Introduction Pack:
1 Large Box of Baruzzo Spring Collection 2012
1 Medium Box of Baruzzo Classic
1 Hazelnut Pouch 90g
1 Almond Pouch 90g
1 Cocoa Beans Pouch 90g
1 Chococereal Pouch 50g
1 Salted Peanuts 90g
1 Mixed Aperitivo 90g
LIMITED OFFER PRICE £39.50
(Standard Retail Price £66)
For Mother's Day, (next week!!!) is absolutely FORBIDDEN to give cheap chocolate to our mums!
Buy online HERE
Baruzzo Chocolate Introduction Pack:1 Large Box of Baruzzo Spring Collection 2012
1 Medium Box of Baruzzo Classic
1 Hazelnut Pouch 90g
1 Almond Pouch 90g
1 Cocoa Beans Pouch 90g
1 Chococereal Pouch 50g
1 Salted Peanuts 90g
1 Mixed Aperitivo 90g
LIMITED OFFER PRICE £39.50
(Standard Retail Price £66)
For Mother's Day, (next week!!!) is absolutely FORBIDDEN to give cheap chocolate to our mums!
Buy online HERE
Celebrating Women's Day at the Italian Consulate in London with Monica Bellucci
by Greg Salvatori
Baruzzo Chocolate and Raffaella Baruzzo celebrate the International Womens Day at the Italian Consulate in London
International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year.
In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.
In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.
Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc. In many regions, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day.
In other regions, however, the original political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.
Put a flower in your gun: winning the palate fight
by Greg Salvatori
One year old Baruzzo Chocolate challenges itself to charm new palates and steal them from the crowd of cheaper chocolate eaters.
Baruzzo Chocolate decides to take its prices down in full season, before Mother's Day and Easter, while other chocolatier are accumulating the most relevant part of the yearly revenues.
Baruzzo launches an Introduction Pack at £39.50, a limited edition only available till March 12th. With this move, Baruzzo cuts the 40% of its standard retail price (£66) and makes the luxurious hand-made chocolates potentially accessible to a broader audience.
This limited edition pack contains a range of the signature chocolate creations and a Large Box of Baruzzo Spring Collection 2012, the new floral selection of refined chocolates that includes Rose, Marigold, Camomile, Violet, Jasmine and Orange Blossom.
Raffaella Baruzzo, founder of the London-based company, says: “Our idea is to have better chocolate circulating in British homes for Easter 2012. The Spring Collection is our masterpiece and we want to show it to as much people as physically possible.”
Violet and Dark Chocolate, from Chocolatier to Perfumier (and back!)
by Greg Salvatori
Violet or Viola Odorata is known for its flirty scent and a fragrance that comes and goes.
A ionone present in the flower turns off the ability of the nose to smell the fragrant compound after a few moments.
The yield of one tonne of fresh flowers is only 98 oz of oil-of-violets. The light-green oil has a faint scent when in its concentrated, but when diluted to about 1:5000 it becomes suddenly strong.
Baruzzo selects violet from Northern Italy and combines their fresh, herbal hint with dark chocolate.
Baruzzo Spring Chocolate Collection is available at shop.Baruzzo.co.uk
Prices: £9 Small Box 9 pieces, £12 Medium Box 12 pieces, £22 Large Box 24 pieces
Jasmine infused into chocolate: the most elegant scent for those who use more than one sense
by Greg Salvatori
Jasmine is a fragile, climbing shrub, with dark green leaves. This evergreen plant, often associated with night and silence, can slowly grow up to 30 feet high. Being beautifully ornamental, it is very popular in Italian gardens.
The white, star-shaped flowers are picked at night, when the aroma is most intense. An experienced flower picker can pick up to 15,000 blossoms in one night.
Baruzzo uses the most delicate Oloong tea to infuse the jasmine from Sicily into the milk chocolate, preserving the flowers' elegant fragrance.
Baruzzo Spring Chocolate Collection is available at shop.Baruzzo.co.uk
Prices: £9 Small Box 9 pieces, £12 Medium Box 12 pieces, £22 Large Box 24 pieces