Web Adventure Park, The Arena, Cliftongate Business Park, Wigginton Road, YO32 2RH
The Balloon Tree, Gate Helmsley, Near York
Visit The Balloon Tree to take part in a special Easter Trail Treasure Hunt to earn your chocolatey reward at the end.
Taking place daily throughout the festival 9.30am - 5.00pm. For more information visit www.theballoontree.co.uk
10am - 1.00pmThe Lord Mayor's Easter Egg Hunt
Set out from JORVIK on a city-wide quest for chocolate visiting six different locations around York with a treat at each stop!
Families are invited to join in on what is bound to be a 'cracking' day! The hunt starts at 10am and participants are to start no later than 12 noon. Collect your treasure sheet from JORVIK, £1.50 per child (includes admission to the Mansion House and Micklegate Bar). It's bound to be a mad scramble!
10.30am - Choccy and Sweetie Tour by York Walk
A delicious tour - hear the history of Terrys and Rowntrees, visit chocolate and sweetie shops and taste free samples.
Walks start at the Museum Gardens Gates on Museum Street.
Tickets are available at the start of the walk, Adults £5.50, Concessions £5.00 For further information about York Walks visit www.yorkwalk.co.uk
11am Easter Egg Making - Hands-on Chocolate Making Workshop with York Cocoa House
During this hands-on workshop all participants will get stuck in, working to temper chocolate to create a chocolate Easter Egg to be filled with chocolate truffles and mini eggs. Get stuck in learning how to make a Chocolate Easter Egg to hold all of your special chocolates.
You will make your chocolate egg, you will then need to leave it to set for an hour before beautifully packaging your creation to take home and show off, share or maybe just enjoy!
Enjoy this special 4 course chocolate lunch of : White Chocolate and Truffle Oil Risotto, Chorizo-Chocolate Croute,
Daube of Beef with a Red Wine Sauce Scented with Bitter Chocolate followed by Trio of Chocolate
Tickets are £28 per person, please call 01904 634341 to book
2.00pm - 3.00pm Chocolate Truffle Making - Hands-on Chocolate Workshop with York Cocoa House
Get stuck in learning how to make gorgeous chocolate truffles.
During this hands-on workshop all participants will work to create some gorgeous chocolate truffles that you will hand dip in tempered chocolate before decorating. You will then beautifully packaging your creations to take home and show off, share or maybe just enjoy! Tickets are £5 for adults and `£3.50 for children and are available at the York Chocolate Festival Marquee in St Sampson's Square or on-line in advance at yorkchocolatefestivalworkshopchocolatetruffles.eventbrite.com
2.00pm - Choccy and Sweetie Tour by York Walk
A delicious tour - hear the history of Terrys and Rowntrees, visit chocolate and sweetie shops and taste free samples.
Walks start at the Museum Gardens Gates on Museum Street. Tickets are available at the start of the walk, Adults £5.50, Concessions £5.00
A look at Chocolates' journey through English social history by Dr Annie Gray, Food Historian, will look at the often vitriolic debates surrounding the acceptability of chocolate under Queen Anne as well as its development as a luxury drink. Attendees will discover tastes of recipes from 1651.
The chocolate cup to the right is a 17th C goblet made from a coconut shell, it was presented to the city by J.B. Morrell following his time as Lord Mayor of York, it currently resides in the Mansion House.
6.00pm - Chocolate and Wine Tasting - Chocolate Festival Marquee, St Sampson's Square
Join Karen Hardwick of theWine Academy to enjoy a comparative wine and chocolate tasting. Discover the influence of the "terroir" in the growing of grapes, much of the terminology we use to discus wine can now be applied to the world of chocolate. During the tasting you will enjoy a range of wines and chocolates typical of the terroirs in which they are grown.
