Meredith will share the secrets of chocolate tasting, as well as how to create some of her favourite chocolate Christmas recipes.

During the session you'll:

- experience a guided mindful tasting using all the senses; the tasting will cover a selection of flavoursome single origin dark chocolate from Pump St Chocolate (the chocolate Meredith uses in her own chocolate making)

- learn how to create your own chocolate mendiants (chocolate disks) with a range of creative and pretty toppings - including tips on tempering chocolate at home for a shiny and snappy finish

- watch Meredith demo a delicious alcohol-free mulled hot chocolate recipe - and the session will finish with a gentle hot chocolate sipping to warm you up from the inside

You'll leave with chocolate tasting and making skills to practise at home, plus some mindfulness tips and chocolatey facts sprinkled in along the way.

All the chocolate in the workshop has no added dairy so is normally suitable for vegans (though please note the chocolate Meredith uses is made in a lovely chocolate factory in Suffolk that also creates milk chocolate in the same location so she can't completely guarantee there aren't dairy traces).