We are delighted to offer 10 free entrance tickets to the Taste of Christmas Event taking place at the ExCel Centre in London from 7th-9th December 2012. http://tasteofchristmas.com/exhibitors_details.aspx?ID=1373.

Simply email info@chocchick.com with the subject line CHOC Taste of Christmas, tweet us gochocchick or like/comment on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ChocChick for a chance to win.

Winners will be announced weekly during November 2012 on Friday 2/11/12, 9/11/12, 16/11/12, 23/11/12 and 30/11/12 by 6pm.

To enter a competition you must be: (a) UK resident; and (b) 18 years old or over at the time of entry.
No purchase necessary.

If you win the competition, we will notify you by e-mail within one day.
Competition runs from 9am Friday 26th October 2012 – 6pm Friday 30th November 2012. All entries after this time will not be counted as a valid competition entry.
Only one entry per email address.

Submitting an entry to this draw is deemed acceptance of the Participant of the terms and conditions and any requirements set out in accompanying promotional material.

Five valid entries (the Winners) will be randomly selected by an independent third party and win two free entrance tickets to Taste of Christmas 2012 at the ExCel Centre in London (7-9th December 2012), courtesy CHOC Chick. Prize will be delivered to the UK address of the winner’s choosing.

Offer subject to availability. Promoter reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a prize of equal or greater value in the event of circumstances out of its control.
Promoter at it’s sole discretion, reserves the right to terminate, cancel, modify or suspend the draw in whole or in any part at any time and the Promoters decision is final on all binding matters.

Promoter reserves the right to refuse entry or select an alternative Winner in the event it believes the Winner has contravened these Terms and Conditions.

The Promoter and their agents cannot accept responsibility for the quality or the liability of this prize.
Prize cannot be used in conjunction with any other order. Prize is non-transferable.
Promoter can accept no responsibility for prize that is lost, damaged, delayed or incomplete. Proof of entry does not constitute proof of receipt.

Entrants can enter the Sweepstakes for free by emailing info@chocchick.com with the subject line CHOC Taste of Christmas, tweet this message to @gochocchick or comment on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ChocChick

Good luck!!

Spring and a bit of summer is definitely in the air and as much as we've been loving the sunny weather, we're even more eggscited about our eggscellent Easter egg recipes and Easter egg moulds that have just arrived (have I over egged it? Sorry!).

We've been really busy this month trying out new CHOCtastic recipes in time for the holidays and have so much to share; from white raw chocolate bites to divine vegan creme eggs, luscious raw chocolate and peanut butter eggs, our CHOCalicious gluten free cake (perfect for Passover) as well a lovely contribution from one of our customers on how best to use up the last bits of raw chocolate mix left in the bowl.

We are looking forward to a sunny and chocolatey April so without further ado, let the chocolate making commence!

Amor y chocolates,

CHOC Chick X

CHOC News

I absolutely love ITV's This Morning and have been really keen to get our CHOC Chick Kits onto the show. For the past two years I've been regularly emailing the programme with information about our products and recipe suggestions and never heard anything back, so imagine my delight when I answered the phone in early March to "hello, I'm Claire from ITV's This Morning and we'd like to use your raw chocolate making kits for one of our features on the show." To say I was dancing excitedly around the room is an understatement and I was even more delighted when I found out that our ingredients would be used by Amanda Hamilton to show how easy it is to make healthy chocolates on Fatima's Fat Fight. The feature was scheduled to be shown on March 22nd however due to lack of time most of the section with the raw chocolate making was cut out and in the end there is only a brief glipse of our ingredients on the clip shown. It was definitely a bit dissapointing, but at least we were able to help in a small way and we even got a little thank you on the ITV website. I've still not given up on This Morning and hopefully we will manage to demonstrate healthy raw chocolate making one day soon!

Speaking of contributing in a small way, last year we offered one of our Kits as a raffle prize to Nicola Richardson who set up the charity Alexander's Charity Ball, in honour of her son. It's a wonderful event and I was truly delighted to hear that they have so far raised an incredible £12,500 for The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths. To find out more, please visit their site:   http://www.alexanderscharityball.co.uk/

CHOC Recipes

We just received lovely new Easter egg moulds and simply couldn't wait to try them out. Our recipes this month are for divine and healthy raw chocolate Easter Eggs and we've made our own dairy free cream for our Vegan Raw Chocolate Crème Eggs and also used Whole Earth's Organic Smooth Peanut butter to make utterly scrumptious Peanut Butter Eggs.

 


For those celebrating Passover this year, we've got our absolute favourite gluten free cake which is absolutely delicious and really easy to make.

All our Eggscellent Easter Egg recipes and easy gluten free Passover cake can be found in our CHOCCreative page http://chocchick.com/pages/Raw-Chocolate-Recipes.html.

We also recently had several emails asking if we had a recipe for white raw chocolate. I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of white chocolate but I was definitely up for the challenge. After several attempts, I think I managed to find a recipe that works and tastes great. It's really easy to make and the recipe now up on our CHOC Chat Blog and we've added it here below as well.

Easy to make white raw chocolate
This raw chocolate version is still dairy free, gluten free and guilt free and although may taste a little different to commercially produced white chocolate, still tastes pretty divine (if we can say so ourselves J) and is a CHOCtastic alternative.

Ingredients

• 50g CHOC Chick organic cacao butter
• 50g Ground cashew nuts (easily blitzed in a food processor)
• 2tsp Lucuma powder
• 1tsp Vanilla bean extract
• 2-3tbsp Sweet Freedom or Agave nectar
• Mini baking cups/petit four cases or silicone ice cube tray/mould

Directions

Melt the cacao butter in a baine Marie (bowl over a pan of hot water) on a low heat. Add the Sweet Freedom and mix well with a metal balloon whisk. Mix in the Lucuma, vanilla and cashew nuts and taste. Add more Sweet Freedom for a sweeter taste and mix well.

Remove from heat and spoon a teaspoon of the mix onto mini baking cups or pour into a plastic tub for a chocolate bar (feel free to decorate with freeze dried strawberries or other dried fruit such as cranberries, cherries etc.).

Please in freezer to set for 30 minutes and enjoy cold straight from the freezer.

It's always wonderful to receive emails from our customers and especially wonderful when they also send us ideas and recipes and thank you so much for Nadine White who sent us this brilliant way of using every last drop of raw chocolate mix.

Nadine's Chocolate Covered Raisins

Ingredients:

• remains of raw chocolate mix
• a handful of raisins separated out so they aren't in big clusters (I used 'Sunkist' because they have no oil coating).

Method:

• Sprinkle the raisins into the bottom of the bowl, and swish them around, coating them with a thin layer of chocolate.
• Tip them out onto a sheet of aluminium foil (in small clumps), and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Yum!
Nadine White, Whithorn, Scotland

CHOC Events

We have several raw chocolate demos in April at John Lewis Food Halls and don't miss out on the London Chocolate Festival at the Southbank 30th March to 2nd April and the York Chocolate Festival in Parliament Street from the 6th -9th April 2012.

Friday 30/3/12
3:00pm-7:00pm
John Lewis Food Hall Oxford St.
300 Oxford Street, London, W1A 1EX

Saturday 31/3/12
11:30am-4:30pm
John Lewis Food Hall Bluewater
Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9SA

Thursday 5/4/12
11:30am-4:30pm
John Lewis Food Hall Bluewater
Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9SA


 

CHOC Mate of the Month

 My CHOC Mate this month is the wonderful Sophie Jewett from York Cocoa House. I met Sophie several years ago and we spent hours chatting about chocolate.  It was amazing to find someone just as passionate about chocolate and chocolate making as I was really delighted when Sophie opened up the York Cocoa House last year. She's particularly passionate about the history of chocolate in York and runs fabulous parties and workshops from her beautiful shop and cafe in the centre of York. She is also one of the organisers of the York Chocolate Festival which runs throughout Easter Weekend from 06 Apr 2012 to 09 Apr 2012 on Parliament Street, York. I highly recommend visiting her shop next time anyone is in the York area: http://www.yorkcocoahouse.co.uk/finding-us 

Although February is now behind us we are still feeling the love especially as this month it’s all about women! With International Women’s Day on March 8^th and Mother's Day on the 18th there are plenty of opportunities this month to celebrate women.

And what better way to show our love and appreciation to the women we love than by making and sharing chocolate?

So in honour of all mums and lovely ladies, this month’s CHOCaholic newsletter includes extra recipes to spoil and pamper the women in our lives (ourselves included!) as well as a 10% discount code (CHOCMum) as an extra treat. We've got recipes for  heavenly raw chocolate slices, divine raw chocolate chili truffles, a nourishing raw chocolate face mask and even an entire Mother’s Day menu created by our fab CHOCMate of the Month; Raw Food Chef extraordinaire Sophie Cargill-Blogg.

To mark International Women's Day we will be showcasing our CHOC Kits at the International Women's Day Brunch  at Home House in London and will be making lots of lovely CHOCs to share, but I am particularly proud to also be involved with the 100 Women Book Project, a charity that aims to empower women in poorer countries by giving them the skills and the means to generate an income for themselves and lead better, safer and healtier lives. Their book "a day in the life of 100 women in Britain" is now for sale with all proceeds going to support this amazing charity (I hope you will have a look and support them too).

Here's to women, love and chocolate!

Viva mujeres, amor y chocolates!

CHOC Chick X

p.s. Look out for our CHOC Chick Kits on ITV's This Morning in a few week's time! Amanda Hamilton will be using them as part of her weight loss programme on the show, yippee!!

CHOC News

It was truly an honour to have been included in the book "a day in the life of 100 women in Britain", a project developed by Dr Rosa Matheson after visiting Nepal and looking for a way to empower and help the women she encountered (her story is fascinating and worth a read). Rosa approached me nearly two years ago and I hadn't realised the piece she asked me to write was included in this wonderful book until a copy arrived in the post for me last week. I found the experience of sitting down to write about a day in my life such a special treat and quite empowering in itself so it's amazing how a simple book that collects the voices and experiences of women in the UK can help other women around the world. Please visit The Book Project's site http://the100womenbookproject.com/ to learn more and to buy this wonderful little book that has such a big heart.

I am also delighted to be taking part in the International Women's Day Brunch event hosted by The Fold London at Home House on Saturday March 10th and is in celebration of female entrepreneurship and success and an opportunity to engage in panel discussions and indulge in beauty treatments, personal style sessions and enjoy lots of raw chocolates as well. Hope to see you there!

And last but not least, I am absolutely thrilled that our CHOC Chick Kits will be used by the nutritionist Amanda Hamilton as a healthy chocolate treat on her weight loss segment on ITV's This Morning. I have always loved This Morning and it's been a bit of a dream of mine for the CHOC Kits to appear on this show, so imagine my delight when I received a phone call from ITV asking me to send them some Kits and raw cacao ingredients for Amanda to use on the show! This segment will be featured in a few weeks time and we will post a link to it on our site, facebook page and twitter (@gochocchick) as soon as it's aired.

CHOC Recipes

We love our mums! So to celebrate Mother's Day in Style we've got lots of luscious recipes up on our site to treat ourselves and our mums. Our Recipes of the Month include:

Luscious Raw Chocolate Slice

      
    Chili CHOC Truffles                                     Nourishing CHOC Face Mask

We also have an extra special recipe for our Newsletter readers sent to us by Sophie Cargill-Blogg (our CHOCMate this month!) which is Totally Awesome :-) Enjoy!

Totally Awesome Double Chocolate Brownies by Sophie Cargill-Blogg
Preparation Time: 30 Minutes; Freeze Time: 1 - 2 Hours
Makes: A 20 x 20cm Brownie
 
These are to die for! I started making them because I wanted an intense ‘Chocolate hit’ and that’s exactly what you get!
You can make the Dark Chocolate in advance and add into the recipe when needed. It is best straight from the freezer to avoid it melting whilst you mix it into the mixture.
 
Equipment
○  Food Processor
○  20 x 20cm Silicone Cake Mould
○  2 Silicone Chocolate Moulds
○  Glass Bowl
○  Metal Balloon Whisk
 
Ingredients - Dark Chocolate
○  100g Cacao Butter
○  36g Cacao Powder
○  4 tbsp Agave Nectar
○  Pinch Pink Crystal Salt
○  4 - 6 Drops Vanilla Oil
 
Ingredients - (Totally Awesome) Brownie
○  150g Almonds
○  80g Cacao Powder
○  60g Cacao Powder
○  75g Hazelnuts
○  400g Medjool Dates, chopped
○  25g Agave Syrup
○  50ml Water
○  3 ½ tbsp Xylitol Crystals
○  Pinch of Pink Crystal Salt
 
Method - Dark Chocolate
○  Melt the Cacao Butter in a bain-marie or dehydrator and pour into a glass bowl
○  Add the Cacao Powder and whisk until thoroughly mixed in
○  Add the Pink Crystal Salt, Vanilla Oil and Agave Nectar, and whisk again until thoroughly mixed
○  Pour into Silicone Chocolate Moulds, cover with clingfilm and place in the freezer for around 30 minutes to set
 
Method - (Totally Awesome) Brownie
○  Mill the Almonds, Hazelnuts, Xylitol Crystals and Pink Crystal Salt to a fine flour in your food processor
○  Add the Cacao Powder and Medjool Dates to the milled Nuts and process again until you have a well broken down and almost fluffy mixture. This may be easier in two batches to avoid overheating the processor and also to ensure that the mixture is as well broken down as possible
○  Melt the Coconut Oil and Cacao Butter together in a bain-marie or dehydrator and add to the food processor. Process into a thick mixture. You may need to pause and scrape the mixture back down around the blades. Tip the mixture out into a large bowl
○  Retrieve your Dark Chocolate from the freezer, chop into chunks and add to the bowl along with the Agave Nectar and Water. Mix well until you have a chunky but even mixture
○  Tip the mixture into a 20 x 20cm silicone mould and press down firmly, making sure the mixture fully reaches the corners. I use a silicone potato masher for this to make sure the brownie is really firm and gooey!
○  Cover with clingfilm and place in the freezer for 45 - 60 minutes to set. You want the Brownie to be firm enough to cut into pieces, but not a solid rock!
○  Retrieve the Brownie from the freezer and cut into pieces - as many as you feel like sharing really!
○  Store in the fridge and eat within a few days. The individual pieces can be re-wrapped in clingfilm and frozen. Simply take out of the freezer and leave in the fridge for around four hours to defrost

CHOC Events

We are looking forward to our demos this month at John Lewis Food Halls in Oxford Street and Bluewater. The lovely Louisa will be helping me with demos and she's always happy to chat about the joys of raw chocolate making, so please come by and say hi.

Saturday 10/3/12 International Women's Day Brunch
9:30am-1:00pm
Home House
20 Portman Square
London W1H 6LW
To book tickets visit: http://internationalwomensdaybrunch.eventbrite.com/

Friday 16/3/12 (just in time for Mother's Day!)
3:00pm-7:00pm
John Lewis Food Hall Oxford St.
300 Oxford Street, London, W1A 1EX

Saturday 17/3/12 (still in time for Mother's Day!)
11:30am-4:30pm
John Lewis Food Hall Bluewater
Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9SA

Friday 30/3/12 (just in time for Easter!)
3:00pm-7:00pm
John Lewis Food Hall Oxford St.
300 Oxford Street, London, W1A 1EX)

Saturday 31/3/12 (still in time for Easter!)
11:30am-4:30pm
John Lewis Food Hall Bluewater
Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9SA

CHOC Mate of the Month

It's always a pleasure to be able to recommend and support other businesses and I'm not sure if you've noticed but all my CHOC Mates are women of course. So here's to girl power and this month's CHOC Mate has girl power in spades! The wonderful Sophie Cargill-Blogg is a raw food chef who's on a mission to show us that there is much more to raw food than a carrot stick or bit of celery. Sophie has created amazing raw food recipes so that anyone can make gourmet meals that are full of colour, flavour and texture and that are incredibly healthy. But if you don't fancy making them yourself, Sophie can come and cook for you!

She has also created a full Mother's Day menu for our newsletter readers and click here to download Sophie's Fantabulous Mother's Day Recipes.

For more information on Raw Love Dinner Parties and Pop-Up Raw Kitchen:
Email: soph@rawlove.me
Web: www.rawlove.me
Tel: 07889 216767

Happy Holidays! This month's newletter will be short and sweet and what we mainly want to do is to thank all of our amazingly wonderful customers for supporting CHOC Chick and enjoying raw chocolate making as much as we do.

This year has been a fabulous year of growth, development and new connections with incredible people and places. We've loved working with John Lewis Food Halls and Whole Foods Market and have many new retailers across the UK and Europe now stocking our CHOC Kits and cacao ingredients (Triyoga, York Cocoa House, The Larder,  Stirling Health Food Store - see our updated stockist list).

My visit to Ecuador to meet our cocoa farmers was a very special and uplifting experience that I will always treasure (read all about it in our CHOC Chat blog) and I have just returned from Copenhagen where we launched our CHOC Chick Kits at Magasin du Nord during their Christmas showcase weekend (even Santa stopped by our raw chocolate making demo).

In September we launched our newly designed ingredient packaging at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair and our first direct shipment of 1 tonne of organic raw cacao from Ecuador arrived in October. Last month we moved to new premises at Broyle Place Farm in East Sussex and we now have a lovely unit in the countryside and plenty of space to pack up our cacao butter and cacao powder in our new and very shiny reseal-able pouches. 

As you can see we've been a bit busy this year, but we couldn't have done it without your love and support. 

So thank you! We hope you all have an utterly CHOCtastic holiday season filled with happiness, success, love and plenty of raw chocolate goodness.

Amor y chocolates!
CHOC Chick X

p.s. Scroll down for a 15% discount voucher code until end of January 2012 (now that's a proper thank you!).

CHOC News

My recent trip to Copenhagen was simply wonderful. What a beautiful city and I am incredibly proud to have launched our Kits in Magasin du Nord, such a beautiful depatment store with an incredible chocolate section. It was packed with Christmas shoppers and even Santa stopped by to help me make raw chocolates. Copenhagen was simply stunning this time of year, I loved the beautifully designed shop windows, the incredible food and especially the Danish people's love of good quality chocolate :-).

CHOC Recipes

This month our CHOCtastic recipe page includes a range of recipes for the holiday season and to lift our spirits during the dark winter months. We've got dried mangos and apricots dipped in raw CHOC (perfect Christmas gift idea!), spiced orange CHOCs, mulled hot chocolate to keep us warm and even a cheeky CHOCtini to toast the New Year with. 

Fancy some more Christmas recipes? Have a look at our recipe archive pages, our favourite truffle recipes are in December 2010's page!

    

Christmas Delivery and 15% discount!!

And finally there is still a little more time to order for Christmas! Tuesday December 20th was our last day for Royal Mail deliveries but there is still time to order by Thursday 22nd with our courier next day delivery service. We do want to thank you properly for supporting us as well, so here is a voucher code for a whopping 15% discount valid from now until January 31st 2012!!

Please use the voucher code CHOCtastic (case sensitive) at our online checkout to receive 15% off your order this week and until end of January.

We are taking a few days off over Christmas and New Year and our warehouse will be closed from December 24th until January 3rd, so although we can accept orders online these will only be shipped on January 3rd 2012. If you need to find some CHOC Chick Kits and Raw Cacao ingredients beforehand, we do have plenty of retailers stocking our products and please check our Stockist List to find a shop near you.

Happy Holidays!!

It’s amazing how quickly the summer has ended and we’re straight into autumn, it’s back to school for the kids and back to reality for me. After a pretty hectic summer I’ve decided I need to focus this month on my health and am embarking on a healthier eating plan (courtesy of the very inspirational  Amanda Hamilton) and trying to exercise more regularly (so far have managed to do Davina’s brilliant 30 minute workout DVD every morning this week – long may it last!). I’m hoping to not just lose weight, but to feel healthier and try and avoid the winter blues as much as I possibly can.

So to keep our spirits up (especially when the sun doesn’t shine) we’ve got some fantastically healthy back to school treats to share in our CHOCtastic recipe section.

Our CHOCMate this month is the wonderful Bethany Eaton who runs Nu You Nutrition www.nu-younutrition.co.uk and in addition to sharing with us her gorgeous raw chocolate muesli recipe she is also offering our readers a special 10% discount off her nutritional screening and food delivery plan.

I’m delighted also to showcase our newly packaged individual cacao ingredients which we launched at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair this week and am eagerly awaiting our first direct shipment of cacao ingredients from the amazing cooperative of farmers I met with on my visit to Ecuador in June.

As usual, lots to tell and share and I hope you enjoy this month’s read.

Amor y chocolates!
CHOC Chick X

CHOC News

          
We are absolutely delighted with our newly designed cacao ingredient pouches which we launched at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair this week. From next month it will be much easier to top up on our organic cacao butter and organic cacao powder which will now come in easy to use reseal-able pouches and will include our CHOCtastic recipes on the back.

This month we received our organic import licence and are expecting our first shipment from Ecuador in the next two weeks. I’m incredibly grateful to be in a position to work directly with the wonderful cacao farmers I met with on my visit to Ecuador. Ethically sourcing our ingredient and knowing exactly where our ingredients come from has been one of the most important aspects of my business and we will always strive to work with our suppliers directly, fairly and honestly.

I’m also thrilled that Amanda Hamilton has chosen our CHOC Chick Kits and recipes as a healthy alternative and demonstrated raw chocolate making on her new BBC programme “Slim Chance: Fix My Family,” which will be shown during September in Northern Ireland. I watched the first episode on BBC iPlayer and thought they handled the emotional and physical issues around weight gain brilliantly and look forward to watching everyone’s progress on her weight loss retreat. She will be demonstrating raw chocolate making in episode 3 and you can watch it all here every week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b014b6z1/  

CHOC Recipes

This month in addition to our CHOCaliciously healthy chocolate spread recipes (both the original and cheats versions) we’ve included our CHOCtastic raw chocolate and nut truffles recipe. This is an incredibly easy recipe to make and is perfect as a lunch box treat. The beauty of this recipe is that you can either roll the mix as truffles or spread the mix out and cut into brownie sized squares for delicious healthy snacks anytime of the day. We love making a batch of truffles/brownies on Sunday morning and using whatever is left over in my daughters’ lunch boxes during the week (much yummier and better for you than sugary cereal bars!). Here’s our CHOCCreative recipe page: http://www.chocchick.com/pages/Raw-Chocolate-Recipes.html  

     

CHOC Mate of the Month

This Month our CHOC Mate is the inspirational Bethany Eaton from Nu You Nutrition. After suffering for many years with pre-menstrual tension, acne, depression and bloatedness, Bethany completely transformed her life (and career, from London police officer to nutritionist and health guru!) and has set out to help others achieve optimum health and wellbeing.

Bethany runs Nu You Nutrition which is a health screening practice based at the Hale Clinic, London’s premier natural health centre. Bethany also runs Nu You Living, a wheat and dairy free diet delivery service, Bethany designs nutritionally balanced, delicious menus that are then prepared by her team of chefs; a food package of breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks is then delivered to your door each day, Bethany’s healthy yet never boring menu can help shift those stubborn pounds, improve energy and much more, tantalise the taste buds with raw chocolate muesli compote, tuna nicoise salad with a dill vinaigrette and dairy free low fat mousakka served with millet taboulah salad, snacks include fresh fruit salad, blueberry almond flour muffins, raw chocolate sugar free mousse, homemade hummus. 

Nu You are offering CHOC Chick newsletter readers with a 10% discount off a nutritional screening and/or food delivery plan, just quote CHOC10 when booking. www.nu-youliving.co.uk and www.nu-younutrition.co.uk

Bethany would also like to share one of her tasty raw chocolate breakfast recipes:

Raw chocolate muesli

• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• 300g rolled organic oats
• 2 tablespoons tahini
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoons sunflower seeds
• 2 table spoons poppy seeds
• 2 tablespoons sultanas
• 3 tablespoons of cacao powder
• 3 tablespoons xylitol or Sweet Freedom (both natural low GI alternatives to sugar, suitable for diabetics)

Heat coconut oil in a large frying pan, once liquefied add oats, stir and coat in coconut oil and lightly toast. Now add tahini and stir on a low heat into the oats. Once this is mixed in turn off the heat and add all the other ingredients, stir and mix in, taste and add more xylitol and cacao if needed. Serve with dairy free yogurt and fresh berries.

Wow! Wow! Wow! Is it July already?? So much has happened since I last sent out my newsletter that I don't know where to start! Perhaps I should begin with my AMAZING trip to Ecuador in June. I was incredibly fortunate to visit the cacao plantations we source our ingredients from, meet the farmers and suppliers and learn about biodynamic and organic cacao farming, cacao been fermentation, drying and chocolate making.

When I returned, slightly dazed and jetlagged I had to prepare for the Jewish Chronicle's Dragon's Den competition which was held on Monday June 27th where I pitched my business in front of 6 judges and a large audience and guess what? I won it!! I'm still slightly dazed and amazed and really delighted to have received such fantastic recognition from such distinguished business people.

So in this month's newsletter, you can read about my adventures in Ecuador, sweet-talking the dragons, some extra special recipes sent to us by the CHOCtastic Brenda and a special recipe from CHOC Mate Tanya from Better Raw (who is also offering CHOC Chick newsletter readers a 15% discount off her new recipe ebook!!).

Hope you enjoy this month's read.

Amor y chocolates!

CHOC Chick X 

CHOC News

I've been on a high since returning from Ecuador and wanted to share my wonderful experience with you all. I've updated images and bits about my trip on the CHOC Chat Blog and please have a look and enjoy! http://www.chocchick.com/chocchat/

I'm also absolutely delighted to have won the JC's Dragon's Den competition this week as well of course. It was quite daunting presenting in front of judges that I respect and admire so much with a full audience at the London Jewish Cultural Centre and I certainly had some stiff competition. I was really impressed by Rosie Olivia who creates the most beautiful hats and had a fantastic display and pitch and the brilliant Gabriel Tyger John who created Tyger Paw a unique long lasting brush to clean football boots and footwear, and who's enthusiasm and polished presentation gave me a real run for my money! I was genuinely amazed to win and you can read more about this wonderful event  in this weekend's Jewish Chronicle or simply follow this link and even watch a short clip of the night: http://www.thejc.com/business/business-features/50967/the-woman-who-sweet-talked-dragons.

CHOC Recipes

This month we have another CHOCtastic contribution from the very wonderful Brenda in Northern Ireland on our CHOC Creative recipe page and some extra special recipes that are available only in this newsletter for the most divine healthy chocolate spread (much better than Nutella!!).

VERY VERSATILE CHEAT'S CHOCOLATE SPREAD
 
This is one chocolate treat that I whip up almost every day because it's so simple and provides almost instant gratification!  There is also no end to the list of things that you can spread it on, drizzle it over or lick it off!
 
It came about one morning when I had run out of normal raw chocolate spread and hadn't time to make more.  As no CHOC Chick should have to start her day without chocolate, I got creative and Cheat's Chocolate Spread was the result. 
  

 
 Here's how to do it:
 
QUICK VERSION
 
4    tbsp   Sweet Freedom or Agave or Honey (preferably raw)
2-3 dsp    Raw Cacao Powder
1.5 tsp     Vanilla Extract
1/4 tsp    Orange Oil (optional and to taste)
 
Place ingredients in a bowl and whisk vigorously to blend everything together. 
 
SUPER QUICK VERSION (enough for some toast)
 
1       tbsp Sweet Freedom or Agave or Honey
1-1.5 tsp   Raw Cacao Powder
1/2    tsp   Vanilla Extract
Few drops of Orange Oil or your favourite flavouring (optional)
 
Place ingredients in a ramekin and stir well. 
 
I make the Super Quick Version each morning to spread on toast or jazz up my porridge with chocolatey goodness.  But it doesn't stop there!  It's delicious drizzled over ice-cream and fruit, blended into yoghurt or smoothies, and a generous spoonful stirred through a mug of warm milk or water makes a lovely drink.  Or if I'm feeling particularly lazy I save myself some washing up and, "enjoy it straight from the spoon!"
 
This saucy spread is also a great base for lots of different flavours.  A splash of orange oil is my favourite but experiment with different citrus oils or fresh zest.  Try spicing it up with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg or chilli.....and perhaps if you fancy a more grown up version, leave out the vanilla and add a glug of something alcoholic instead......
 
CHOC Cheers!
Brenda x 

CHOC Mate of the Month

Better Raw's brand new Raw Chocolate book 'Seduced' has the most mouth watering collection of recipes from Mulberry, Coconut and Peppermint to Matcha, Goji Berry and of course Vanilla Cream Eggs for Easter (or any time of the year!).
 
Exclusive only to CHOC Chick readers, our CHOC Mate Tanya Alekseeva is going to share one of her secret recipes from the book below and it is just divine!
 
To find out more about the book, what is included and see some of the gorgeous photography, go to http://www.betterraw.com/2011/04/seduced-raw-chocolate-recipes-to-get.html .
 
An even bigger special surprise for you is that CHOC Chick readers get 15% off the RRP and you can order your copy right here for just  £12.75 instead of £15 by simply following this link to an easy Paypal payment gateway (you don't need a Paypal account to order!)  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DVH4L86QB6KRL 
 
RASPBERRY JAM
 
1 Cup fresh raspberries
1/3 Cup Agave
½ tsp Natural Vanilla Extract
½ Cup Cacao Butter, melted
½ Cup Cacao powder
2 Tbsp Agave, or to taste
Pinch Salt
 
1. Blend the raspberries, agave and vanilla extract in a blender
2. Pour into silicon ice cube trays and l eave in the freezer to set overnight
3. When ready, melt the cacao butter and stir in cacao powder, agave and salt until perfectly smooth
4. Working only with frozen raspberry cubes one at a time, dip teh bottom of each in chocolate and as soon as you see it solidifying, place on a fork
5. With a spoon in the other hand, pour melted chocolate over the cube covering every side entirely until no red is poking through
6. Transfer to a lined tray
7. Keep in the fridge for a runny centre or freezer for sorbet type bites

Hooray it’s almost Mother’s Day! One of my favourite days of the year and it’s almost April, my favourite month of the year (might be because it’s Easter, Passover and my birthday that month?). So to celebrate all the wonderful mothers of the world and the lovely month of April we’ve got extra special discounts, recipes and events to share. What more could a mother want?!

Our recipe of the month is an incredible face mask that takes advantage of the many nutritional properties found in raw cacao (high levels of magnesium, antioxidant flavanols and sulphur - apparently it’s the beauty mineral!), smells divinely chocolaty, leaves the skin hydrated and silky soft and is good enough to eat!

Our CHOCPromo this month is a special discount code for 15% off of all our CHOC Kits and ingredients online (www.chocchick.com) for our wonderful newsletter readers and our CHOCDemo section has a list of all the raw chocolate making demo dates and opportunities in April to see how easy and fun raw chocolate making is.

We’ve also got a particularly wonderful CHOCMate this month, Proscovia Wagaba from Tigga Gifts (www.twigagifts.com) who not only has a fabulous range of ethically sourced gifts on offer but is also offering us a special 20% discount during April 2011 as well.
Hope you enjoy this month’s read.

Amor y chocolates!

CHOC Chick X

CHOC News

March has been filled with lots of great networking events and meeting many insprational women. The Women Unlimited Conference earlier this month was particularly brilliant. The speakers were amazing and included first female Dragon Rachel Elnaugh, Stephanie Davies from Laughology, Jessica Huie from Color Blind Cards, Lisa Irlam, the inventor of Poolmate and many more wonderful talks, but I was particularly inspired by Tamsin Fox-Davies, who was incredibly warm, sharp and approachable and inspired me to create a special recipe in her honour.

Tamsin’s Tantalising Chilli and Coconut CHOCs is now one of my favourite recipes and I’ve been making it non stop this past week. To see the recipe, visit my CHOCChat blog http://www.chocchick.com/chocchat/  

Hooray it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday April 3rd! There is still time to share the love with your mum and a CHOC Chick Kit is the perfect treat.  We are happy to offer all mums and loved ones a 15% discount throughout April 2011 and simply use the voucher code CHOCMum (case sensitive) at the checkout stage on our site www.chocchick.com  and your 15% discount will be applied.

CHOC Recipes

Since our Gluten Free Chocolate Cake recipe is so delicious and perfect for Mother’s Day, we’ve kept this recipe up on our site and have included our fabulously rich raw chocolate face mask recipe, which is the perfect way to relax and indulge in pure raw chocolate goodness.

Nourishing Raw Chocolate Face Mask Recipe
The wonders of raw chocolate never cease! Raw cacao is naturally high in antioxidant flavanols, magnesium and sulphur (the beauty mineral) which means that not only is eating raw chocolate good for us it’s also amazing for our skin.

So what better way to enjoy Mother’s Day than with an indulgent raw chocolate facemask that’s CHOCfull of raw chocolate goodness and is good enough to eat!

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup CHOC Chick raw cacao powder
• 1/4 cup of honey
• 2 tbsp of sour cream or double cream
• 3 tsp of oatmeal powder

Directions:
Mix all the ingredient well until you have a lovely thick paste. Apply onto your face, gently massaging it so that oatmeal exfoliates the the dead skin cell layer. Leave on for around 20 minutes and rinse off with lukewarm water (or simply lick off!).

Hope you have a CHOCtastic Mother’s Day!
http://www.chocchick.com/pages/Raw-Chocolate-Recipes.html

CHOC Events

April is going to be one of our busiest months and is full of chocolaty events and opportunities to enjoy raw chocolate making and tastings. So if you love chocolate come with your children, family and friends and see how fun and easy it is to make decadently healthy raw chocolate!

Saturday April 2nd
Whole Foods Market Stoke Newington London
9:00am until 12:00pm

Whole Foods Market
32-40 Stoke Newington Church St
London
N16 0LU

Follow Whole Foods Stoke Newington on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Whole-Foods-Market-Stoke-Newington/176175355762315?ref=ts

Friday to Sunday April 8th, 9th, and 10th
The Southbank Chocolate Festival London
11am - 8pm daily (6pm on Sunday)

At SOUTHBANK CENTRE SQUARE
Belvedere Road,
London,
SE1 8XX,
Behind Royal Festival Hall
Free Admission
How to get there
http://www.festivalchocolate.co.uk/index-london.html

Saturday and Sunday April 16-17th
The Chocolate Festival Brighton 2011
10am – 6pm daily

At NEW ROAD
Brighton,
East Sussex,
BN1
Opposite Royal Pavillion
Free Admission
How to get there
http://www.festivalchocolate.co.uk/index-brighton.html

Thursday 21st April
CHOCtastic Demo John Lewis Food Hall Bluewater
11:30am-3pm

Bluewater Shopping Centre
Greenhithe
Kent
DA9 9SA

Saturday 23rd April
Whole Foods Market Clapham
2pm-5pm

305-311 Lavender Hill
London, UK SW11 1LN UK

CHOC Mate of the Month

I had the pleasure of meeting Proscovia last week when I attended a Businessmums' Networking Lunch in Crystal Palace, her passion and dedication to sourcing ethical products and helping women in developing countries was truly inspiring and I absolutely love her site http://www.twigagifts.com and what she is doing. Twiga is Swahili for Giraffe, unique, beautiful and elegant! All the beautiful gifts on this site are ethically sourced, fair trade certified, made with love and help empower producers in Africa and other developing countries.

We both feel passionate about ethical shopping and supporting producers in the developing world. It’s simply a win/win situation for everyone involved and to make it even better for us Twiga Gifts are offering CHOC Chick newsletter readers a massive 20% discount from now until April 30th using the discount code CHC411. I hope you take advantage and enjoy this wonderful site!

It’s been a fabulous February so far! We were all loved up for Valentine’s Day with demos in John Lewis Oxford Street, Blue water and Whole Foods Market in Camden and have spent the later part of the month trying out wonderful new recipes and preparing for Mother’s Day and Easter.

Despite the economic gloom, we are absolutely delighted with the continued growth of CHOC Chick. Our on line sales have grown by 30% since this time last year and our retail sales continue to expand. John Lewis Food Halls (one of our favourite stockists) will now be stocking CHOC Chick Starter and CHOC Chick Master Kits all year round and our Kits and ingredients can also be found at Planet Organic, The Haelan Centre, Whole Foods Market in High Street Kensington, Camden and coming soon to Whole Foods in Clapham and Stoke Newington (do please ask your local health food and organic retailer to stock our Kits and raw cacao ingredients if they don’t and let us know if you can’t find them at a stockist near you).

We are extremely grateful to our wonderful customers, who not only support us through sales but take the time to email regularly with recipes, new chocolate making tips and photos of their CHOC creations. This month we would like to thank in particular the very lovely Brenda Sinnamon and Matthew Horton, who regularly brighten my day with great emails, chats and fantastic photos of their chocolate creation.

Amor y chocolates!

CHOC Chick X

CHOC News

We’ve had some more fantastic reviews from Food Bloggers this month. Choclette from the Chocolate Log Blog who tried out our CHOC Chick Starter Kit and made THE most amazing Golden Ticket!!

http://choclogblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/cardamom-raw-chocolates.html

Chocolate Review also had a chance to try out our CHOC Chick Starter Kit and we are delighted with their amazing step by step review and recommendation.

http://www.chocolatereviews.co.uk/choc-chick-kit/

CHOC Recipes

This month we have a new and an old favourite recipe to share! We’ve been inspired by the amazing Elana’s Pantry website (www.elanaspantry.com) to create a dairy free version of her easy to make Gluten Free Chocolate Cake.
Super Simple Gluten Free Chocolate Cake
This is such an incredibly simple and wonderfully moist cake that it’s become a firm favourite.

Another favourite of mine of course are Whiskey and Walnut Raw Chocolates. They are also incredibly quick and easy to make and have impressed many friends and family as an after dinner raw chocolate treat (although I do confess to making them when I feel like a slightly naughty treat for myself!).
Hope you enjoy!

Here also are the CHOCtastic  images send by Brenda and Matthew

Brenda Sinnamon’s raw chocolates (Left)
Matthew Horton’s divine chocolate truffles (Centre & Right)

CHOC Mate of the Month

Caroline Ahern founder of SugarGrain is my wonderful CHOCMate of the month. I met Caroline at several trade shows and events last year and always had the joy of sampling her amazing vegetarian marshmallows and fabulous gluten free cakes and creations. I’m delighted that SugarGrain has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Free From Awards for her Zesty Lemon Polenta, Spiced Carrot Cake and Fresh Raspberry & White Chocolate Brownies.  Her gluten free baking is outstandingly creative and delicious and she really deserves to win! Good luck Caroline!

www.sugargrain.com

Ban those January blues! It’s nearly Valentine’s Day and the start of the chocolate season is almost upon us (not that we need a particular season to eat chocolate) so it’s now definitely the time to rejoice in all things chocolate.

After overindulging over Christmas (and enjoying every moment), January has been about easing ourselves back into work (and into my jeans!) and trying to rid ourselves of those winter blues and bugs. What better way to get through the winter months than enjoying raw chocolate goodness? I’m back to drinking my CHOCShots 3 times a day (before every meal) and feeling happier and slightly fitter (thanks also to the amazing Power Plate classes at Revitalise in Hove.

We’ve also decided this year to jazz up our Starter and Master Kits for Valentine’s Day and have created special Be My Valentine Kits which include our romantic Valentine’s Day recipes as well as the usual raw cacao goodness and you can also add one of our CHOCtastic heart shaped moulds for the perfect Valentine CHOCs. These Kits are now available online CHOC Kits and at John Lewis Food Halls.

There is a lot to be happy about this winter and I am looking forward to welcoming 2011 with a massive chocolaty smile.

Amor y chocolates!

CHOC Chick X

CHOC News

January has been an amazing month on the Twittersphere! I’ve discovered the joys of Twitter (you can find me @gochocchick by the way) and have really enjoyed meeting other Tweeters and bloggers with the same interest as I have in baking, cooking, chocolate and music.

One particular series of Tweets from @jamandcream really got to me, as she seemed to be having a nightmare day and was ill with the flue as well, so I decided to do a good deed and send her one of our Starter Kits to cheer her up. This one simple thing led to a wonderful review of our CHOC Kits on her blog http://www.jamandclottedcream.co.uk/2011/01/homemade-chocolates-choc-chick-kit.html.

I was delighted to see such a great review but to my utter amazement, this post ended up being mentioned in the @BoyGeorge Daily http://paper.li/BoyGeorge/2011/01/12 (see under Travel). How incredible is that? Boy George knows about CHOC Chick!

We’ve also appeared in Suzie Bank’s stunning blog! She loved our Kits and posted a wonderful recipe with even more amazing images. Thank you Suzie! How wonderful to find more people who love making chocolate as much as I do. http://www.aestheticsandgastronomy.co.uk/2010/12/christmas-pressents-for-chocoholics.html

To help get everyone into the Valentine’s Day spirit, we have decided to offer a special Valentine CHOC Kit online which includes our generous Master Kit raw cacao ingredients, 300ml of Sweet Freedom and a Valentine Hearts mould for only £26.99! This specially priced raw chocolate making kit will be available while stocks last, so don’t miss out!

CHOC Recipes

Love is definitely in the air this month and our wonderful Valentine’s Day recipes are perfect for a romantic evening any time of the year.

Our recipes include luscious raw chocolate hearts (these Valentine Hearts Moulds are perfect! and a sumptuous fondue with the remaining CHOCMix.

http://www.chocchick.com/pages/Raw-Chocolate-Recipes.html
We also have a CHOCaliciously healthy recipe on our CHOC Chat Blog sent to me by Holly Helt who I met at one of our tastings at Whole Foods Market in November. Her Power Bowl of Raw Chocolate Goodness is the most amazing way to start your day and you can find her super easy recipe here: http://www.chocchick.com/chocchat/

CHOC Events

We love our new special Valentine’s Day edition of our CHOC Chick Kits! As it’s the time to celebrate love and romance we are unveiling the new raw chocolate making kits at John Lewis Food Halls in Bluewater (Kent) and demonstrating  how easy it is to make delicious Valentine chocolate hearts there as well.

We will be demonstrating our new Be My Valentine CHOC Kits at John Lewis:

Saturday, 12/02/11, 11:00am-4:00pm

John Lewis Bluewater – Food Hall
Bluewater Shopping Centre
Greenhithe
Kent
DA9 9SA
Hope to see you all there!

CHOC Mate of the Month

This month’s amazingly inspirational CHOC Mate is Polly Noble a lifestyle coach, cancer coach, author and raw food coach. Having faced cancer at the age of 24 and now once again, as of February 2010 aged 28, Polly is passionate about making the most of life and helping others to do the same.

Through her wonderful blog www.pollynoble.com, Polly shares the ways in which she is healing herself in the hope that it will not only inspire those reading to endeavour to be healthier and happier but to also realise that life is fleeting and that our only true purpose is to enjoy our lives and create the life we truly desire.

I’m absolutely delighted to have come across such an incredible person and also really happy to know that Polly loves our CHOC Chick Kits too http://pollynoble.com/2011/01/calling-all-choc-chicks/.

Polly Noble
Life Coach, Cancer Coach and Writer
www.pollynoble.com
polly@pollynoble.com
http://twitter.com/pollynoble
07966 282664

So this is Christmas….well, it’s almost Christmas and we still have 16 more shopping days till Christmas day (only 14 if you are ordering online!).

We’ve had an eventful start to December with lots of snow, mulled hot chocolate to keep us warm and a few amazing networking events where I met the wonderful Carol Savage from www.mydish.co.uk and the absolutely amazing Nigella Lawson (she loved the CHOC Chick Starter Kit!!). So far two celebrity chefs have enjoyed our CHOC Kits and I guess my mission for 2011 may have to be to introduce raw chocolate making to all the others (Gordon, Hugh, Delia….anyone else?).

This month our CHOCtastic recipe page is CHOCfull of festive recipes, from our luscious truffles recipes, naughty CHOCtails and heart-warming Mulled Hot CHOC, so plenty of treats for us to enjoy.

We are also celebrating the launch of our lovely friend Chocoholly’s shop in Brighton’s Marina with a Chocolaty Christmas Party on Sunday 12/12/10 from 2pm till 6pm and hope you can join us this weekend!

Happy holidays to all and hope your festive season is full of chocolates, love and happiness!

Amor y chocolates!

CHOC Chick X

p.s. In memory of John Lennon on the 30th anniversary of his untimely death 08/12/80.

CHOC News

Last orders please!
Our last dates to deliver your online orders in time for Christmas are:
2pm Monday 20/12/10 for Royal Mail deliveries
2pm Wednesday 22/12/10 for Courier deliveries
*Please bear in mind potential adverse weather conditions and get your orders in earlier to avoid disappointment!

Cheaper Postage
It has always been important for us at CHOC Chick to offer value for money and we are delighted that we are now able to offer cheaper postage options. We now have an account with Royal Mail as well as our next day courier delivery service, which means you can now choose the most economical and convenient delivery option when you place your orders online www.chocchick.com.

Don't want to pay postage?
You can now find our CHOC Chick Kits and ingredients in a growing number of shops across the UK and Europe! See our list of stockists, from John Lewis Food Halls, 50 Holland and Barrett stores, Whole Foods Market, Planet Organic, The Haelan Centre, Infinity Foods to Beppe Deli in Holland and more.... http://www.chocchick.com/pages/Stockist-near-you.html

CHOC Recipes

This month we have 4 CHOCtastic recipes to indulge in and keep us happy and warm. From warming mulled hot chocolate, divine truffles (both naughty and nice!); to easy to make CHOCtails, this festive season will be full of chocolate goodness and cheer!

http://www.chocchick.com/pages/Raw-Chocolate-Recipes.html

CHOC Events

We’ve got lots of raw chocolate demos booked in this month to get us into the holiday spirit.

CHOC Demo and raw chocolate tastings:

Saturday, 11/12/10, 11:00am-4:00pm
John Lewis Bluewater – Food Hall
Bluewater Shopping Centre
Greenhithe
Kent
DA9 9SA

Sunday, 12/12/10, 2:00-6:00pm
Chocoholly Christmas Launch – Chocoholly Shop, 7 Marina Walk, Brighton Marina

What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than Christmas shopping with plenty of award winning chocolates by Chocoholly www.chocoholly.com and CHOC Chick Raw Chocolate making Kits www.chocchick.com! We'll be making and tasting lots of unique chocoloates, drinking CHOC Chick's mulled hot chocolate and cocktails and celebrating the launch of Chocoholly's amazing new shop!

Friday 17/12/10, 12:00-3:00pm and 5:00-7:00pm
John Lewis Oxford Street – Food Hall
300 Oxford Street
London W1A 1EX

Sunday, 18/12/10, 12:00am-4:00pm
John Lewis Bluewater – Food Hall
Bluewater Shopping Centre
Greenhithe
Kent
DA9 9SA

Thursday, 23/12/10, 11:00am-4:00pm
John Lewis Bluewater – Food Hall
Bluewater Shopping Centre
Greenhithe
Kent
DA9 9SA

CHOC Mate of the Month

This month we have 2 fabulous CHOC Mates! I think it’s incredibly important, particularly in this economic climate, to support independent local stores and I’m extremely lucky to live by the sea and near Pebbles Homestyle and Giftstore. This beautiful shop in Rottingdean, East Sussex is owned and run by the very lovely Michelle Pierina Marcar, who has the most wonderful eye for design and textures and has filled her shop with the most delightful homewares, textiles, cards and gorgeous gifts. I will definitely be doing much of my Christmas shopping there (she also stocks our CHOC Chick Starter Kits of course!) and bump into you there!

Pebbles Homestyle and Giftstore
86, High Street
Rottingdean
East Sussex
BN2 7HF
01273 945 857
www.pebbles.me.uk

I’ve been incredibly lucky to meet the most amazing people since starting my business two years ago, from celebrity chefs to inspiring women in business and this past month I’ve had the immense pleasure of meeting a truly inspirational young woman.

Leanne Pero runs The Movement Factory www.themovementfactory.uk.com (originally called Bruk Out) which she founded when she was only 15! Her company started by offering Street Dance classes to her local South London community and schools and with the help and support of Debbie Moore (yes THE Debbie Moore CBE from Pineapple Dance Studios) and Emma Sinclair (another incredible entrepreneur – she’s the youngest woman ever to launch a business on the London Stock Market!) she has rebranded and expanded her business and now offers classes throughout London schools and community centres and even at Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden.

I hope her business continues to grow from strength to strength and look forward to seeing her again at their Christmas showcase.

The Movement Factory Keep It Moving ……Dance Showcase
21st December, 7:00-10:00pm,
main Concert Hall, Croydon Fairfield Halls,
Park Lane, Croydon, CR9 1DG
Come kick off the Christmas holidays and be amazed by watching some of the UKs most popular dance groups perform under one roof and celebrate dance as whole art form.

This show will include a collection of street dancers, breakers, poppers, lockers as well as traditional South American and African dancers too. 

Performers include some familiar household names from popular television series Britain’s Got Talent -Twist and Pulse (2nd place 2010), Peridot (finalists) and Sky 1’s Got to dance- Unity youth (finalists) to name a few.

Lots of special guest performers and a special celebrity host!!- king of comedy Richard Blackwood!!
The Movement Factory
Book your place: 07939 609 186, email: Info@themovementfactory.uk.com