I was really jealous, so I asked him to take lots of photos for me.

To start off with, the instructor explained the difference between "real chocolate" and "confectionary bars". It is all to do with amount of actual cacao in them. So Cadbury's Dairy Milk is a confectionery bar, not strictly speaking "chocolate".
I remember a few years ago there was uproar when the EU were going to impose a standard i.e. only a product with in excess of 50% cacao could be called chocolate. This would mean that most of the "chocolate" in the UK would not be allowed to be sold as chocolate....well, that idea was quickly shot down and manufacturers still call their low cocoa/high vegetable fat bars chocolate bars.

Everyone has their own "stations". You start off with the fillings, a bar of soft dark chocolate (like a ganache) and a bar of semi-brittle nutty paste.
The funny looking fork is for dunking in chocolate. (More about that later)

They used a special kind of chocolate which stays melted at room temperature.

People were quite sceptical before but everyone really enjoyed it.
Look at the state of the table!

You also get two glasses of champagne to help with creativity :)
These were Mr KE's efforts. Some people were eating the chocolate all the way through, but Mr KE was concentrating so hard on making them look nice that he didn't eat any during the session.

He wrapped them up nicely and brought them home for me to eat.

They are lovely, really fresh - the nicest chocolates I've ever had. And I'm not just saying that because my husband made them!
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