The 2012 NW Chocolate Festival is coming up at the end of September at the Washington State Convention center in downtown Seattle. We are giving away a pair pof tickets ($50!) for Sunday, September 30th. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed on Friday, September 28th.
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2012 NW Chocolate Festival Info:
From our partners:
NW Chocolate Festival
September 29 & 30, 2012 | 9:30AM-6PM
Tickets: $25 advance, $30 at door, $60 for 2 day pass
Washington State Convention Center
800 Convention Place Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 694-5030 | More info: nwchocolate.com
Taste, Learn and Celebrate!
Chocolate Lovers Unite!
We present two days of pure chocolate decadence and the highest caliber of indulgence through chocolate education, chocolate making classes and professional level tasting.
The NW Chocolate festival hosts 70 classes, chocolate tasting and workshops taught by top culinary professionals and award winning artisan chocolate makers. We aim to share experiences in chocolate from the farm all the way to scrumptious chocolate bar and sweet confection.
A taste of what you will experience
- Learn about chocolate with presentations by award winning chocolate makers
- Crush cacao beans by hand using traditional tools
- Meet cacao farmers from Ecuador and Peru
- Learn to taste and distinguish fine chocolate from different origins around the world
- Taste and experience fresh cacao fruit direct from the cocoa tree, a rare experience in the United States
- Discover the health benefits of chocolate
- Watch the live chocolate making from bean to bar
- Learn how to temper chocolate, make truffles and ganaches, and fine desserts
- Seduce your senses in the Aphrodisiac Room
- Expand your palate with chocolate and drink pairings
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I love chocolate! The darker the better! :)
I would love to win this.
You had me at “2 days of pure chocolate decadence”! What a great event!
Yummy
Being surrounded by such high caliber chocolate all day… sounds like pure bliss.
Who wouldn’t want these? I LOVE chocolate!
Chocolate lovers unite!
I love chocolate!
I’ll need some chocolate to lift my mood, as Im turning 32 (?!*#) on 9/30.
….first date <3
My husband’s birthday is today. After his birthday celebration, he mentioned he would like to go (after I blew my cash on super-sweet cheesecake and gifts). We are both chocolate lovers and have never been. My favorite chocolate comes from Autumn Martin’s Hotcakes Molten Lava Cakery. I’d love to see her in action! Plus – my husband and I never agree on anything! Except chocolate.
I would love to take my wife to this and just enjoy the time with her learning more about one of her loves!
Yes, please help fuel my addiction!
Never been. Would be a nice escape from our crowded apartment. Would love to attend with my wife or family.Sweeet tickets
We are addicted to Chococate, please send tickets. This would be a dream prize.
omg chocolate!
I went to a chocolate festival in New York City years ago, and I just found out that Seattle has one as well! I love chocolate (especially trying exotic kinds) and free tickets to this would be amazing!
we love chocolate, and we are currently in the food industry, it would be awesome to learn more about chocolate than we ever thought it’s possible! Plus, who doesn’t love a sugar rush/high!!
Because it will make my best friend amazingly and supremely happy.
Always needs MOAR chocolate!
I would like to step up my chocolate game in the kitchen–I’d love to see what tips the professionals have for us amateur pastry chefs.
I am a 35yr old woman that is celebrating 15yrs of Marraige to my wonderful husband. We have a 4yr old toddler, and getting away to chocolate seems like the best anniversery ever.
I loooove chocolate! But who doesn’t right!?? I missed out on it last year and was kickin myself for it!! Would love to go and try everything!! Super ecstatic! :) This would be a great place to learn new ideas! Been working on my chocolate cook book supply.
What a great thing to do for my one year aniversary. Take the train, but I realy can’t afford it , kids back to school , birthdays , repaired the car ( should have become a mechanic ) , but I’m loving life. Wait we would have to fly I couldn’t be a way from the baby that long , I mean she couldn’t. I know Ive gone to far , its my dream let me dream it .
The most obvious reason I would love to win is “it’s chocolate”! I could meet up with my daughter at college and have a “girls day together AND have chocolate! We both love baking any chocolate dessert!
Chocolate is a sweet decadence in life. What better way to celebrate it then with a two day festival! I know I would over indulge in this event :-)
Sometimes Zod talks to me. Zod tells me that I should drive the English out of France. Then, Zod says, I should eat chocolate. I like Zod, and I like chocolate. I like to go to chocolate festivals…for the articles.
Mmmm love chocolate! Looks like fun!
Mmmm love chocolate! This looks like fun!
Give me chocolate or the teddy bear gets it ;)
Chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
After the crazy last couple of weeks, and near constant stresses this mama would love a chance to step away and be a grown up lady surrounded by chocolate!
I love chocolate! This looks so awesome!
Chocolate chocolate chocolate!!! I volunteered 2 years ago and would love to come as a spectator this time. Yay!
Adventure to Seattle + chocolate = I definitely would love to attend.
Cocoa beans my loveeee!
I would Love to go!!!!!
I can’t wait, I’ve looked at the schedule. So much to do, so much to try. 2 days is not enough!
I was looking for something my son (12) and I could do this weekend. He recently discovered the preferences of higher quality chocolates. I would love to expand his knowledge via people that are specialists on the subject. I would also love to expose him to more of the great richness of that dark gold.
I always preferred caramel to chocolate, until I turned 40. Now I love ‘em both, especially Fran’s gray salt caramels which I have had on my “Mommy shelf” years before Obama took office and mentioned them in public. As an aside, Halloween always seems such a comedic affair–not just because my two youngest children love wearing the same costumes as many years as they can, but also because the specimens they unwrap at the end of the night, i.e. Whoppers, go by the name chocolate. I would never waste a good calorie on the waxy stuff sold in drugstores 3 for-a-dollar, unless my taste buds were numb from dental work or I were just being polite.
I would love to attend this weekend’s NW Chocolate Fest. I’m fully trained for entering medical school…but my joy is in discovering new chocolates and varied settings in which to highlight their unique character. At least I think that’s where I’d have the most fun, but am still researching–hence, the NW Chocolate Fest seems like an ideal playground & lab for me & a friend to test these hypotheses. What better way to combine a love of chemistry, cooking, gifting other people, and creating new sensations than with chocolates? I happen to love coffee, too, so as a native Seattleite, pairing them is even more fun, as my barista friends have mused I tend to do frequently.
Send me! Send me! Thanks for considering my request.
I would like to win because I’m pregnant, have a one year old, and yesterday was my birthday. If that isn’t reason enough for a girl to have some chocolate and her husband to have some wine, I don’t know what is!
I am a huge CHOCOLATE lover!!! I have never been to this event and I would love the opportunity to do so!!!
Thank you for this wonderful event info website and I hope to hear from you with the winning email!!!
Did someone say Aphrodisiac Room??
This event could ruin me for Halloween, but I am game.
Can’t imagine a world without chocolate, nor the title “Chocolateer”.
“Man cannot live by chocolate alone, but woman can”.
Going would raise the spirits of a friend who is very down these days.
I would like to see how chocolate is made and what makes it so satisfying.
Congratulations to Cyndy for winning the tickets!
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple!
My birthday and 6th month anniversary with my boyfriend are this week!
Would love to win these! It looks to be an amazing event for all Chocoholics!
Would love to win these! Looks to be a sinsational event for chocoholics!
I’d love to win because
chocolate + me = happiness!!
All the things I love the most… Seattle, festivals, and chocolate!
Art. Chocolate. Seattle. Doesn’t get any better than that!