ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE CAKE COMPEITION - IT'S BACK!
On Saturday 4 May, our wonderful Leura Harvest Festival is happening again. Leura Mall will be closed to traffic, and the festival begins!
We'd love to celebrate your chocolate cakes, the one you're famous for making for your family and friends! Cakes entered are to be delivered to the chocolate shop for entry, and then you can parade it up the Mall for all to see for judging!
Once judged, we'll be cutting the cakes to be shared with the public. Yum!
Details:
Saturday 4 May
Prize categories include:
* Chocolate cake - open
* Chocolate cake Junior - 12yrs & under
And .... the 'Most Stunning Cake' - will be judged by the public and receive a prize
For the first 5 entries in the OPEN and JUNIOR categories, entrants can collect 1kg of dark, milk or white Belgian chocolate from Josophan's. The chocolate cannot be posted, it can only be collected.
Please complete your entry instore, call the store on 4784 2031, or email josophansleura@gmail.com, where you will be given your entry number for the competition day, and further details of timing.
As a condition of entry, you must declare all ingredients used in your cake, or it cannot be shared with the public after judging.
Prizes
CHOCOLATE CAKE - OPEN CATEGORY
1st Prize:
* 5kg giant block of Callebaut Belgian Chocolate
* 'Chocolate' by Kirsten Tibballs hardcover book, , plus the opportunity to 'Be a Pastry Chef or Chocolatier for the day' - including a back of house tour and behind the scenes work experience for a day in the production kitchen of either Josophan's Fine Chocolates or Gumnut Patisserie in Bowral.
2nd Prize: $100 Voucher to spend instore at Josophan's Fine Chocolates, plus a gift box of Josophan's Fine Chocolates.
3rd Prize : Gift hamper of Josophan's Fine Chocolates (value $75)
CHOCOLATE CAKE - JUNIOR 12YRS AND UNDER
1st Prize: Giant 5kg block of Callebaut Belgian Chocolate.
'Chocolate' by Kirsten Tibballs hardcover book,
2nd Prize: Gift hamper of Josophan's Fine Chocolates (Value $75)
3rd Prize : Gift hamper of Josophan's Fine Chocolates (value $50)
MOST STUNNING CAKE
Giant 5kg block of Callebaut Belgian Chocolate
Happy baking!
WINNER, WINNERS!
We're thrilled to announce the winners of the first two of our giant eggs we've donated to raise funds to help with flood relief, all the details are below. These are our happy winners ... the draws were recorded and uploaded to our facebook and insta sites. One final egg is being donated, so last chance to win this incredible giant chocolate egg, and support a great fundraiser.
FLOOD RELIEF FUNDRAISER - GIANT EGG!
The current flooding crisis is breaking our hearts, and like many we know, we want to help but have been unsure how. So we figure we can do what we always do, and spread the love through chocolate. We have created and are donating a GIANT easter egg, and we are selling 100 raffle (lottery) tickets for $10 each. If we sell all of these, we’ll make and donate another egg! And another! We will deliver the egg locally or to the Sydney CBD for free, the week before Easter. If you are in an area outside of this, and you win, you will need to organise to collect the egg.
As you can see from the photo, the egg is huge! It is made in our production area in our store in Leura, and is made entirely out of Fair trade certified Belgian Callebaut chocolate, and with the solid chocolate stand, weighs around 10kg. We’ve decorated this egg with gold shimmer, but also have the egg in a marbleised pattern if preferred.
We will be donating the funds to a local Lismore charity. Northern Rivers has nearly 4% of the State's population, but nearly 19% of the States population of 'rough sleepers', and the second highest proportion of those 'sleeping rough' outside the Sydney CBD. A not for profit organisation, run by volunteers, they served 26,602 meals during 2021. In addition to the soup kitchen, the organisation provides medium termed accommodation to disadvantaged women and men at Mazzer House in Lismore and for marginalised men in Winsome. Their vision includes ‘moving people from disadvantage (of various kinds) to something better that is sustainable and stable’.
Thankfully they were able to evacuate their residents before the water had completely inundated the ground floor, and got to the first level causing enormous damage. Their social media shows photos of their first floor verandah, becoming a wharf - a temporary drop off spot for stranded people and pets as emergency services struggled with evacuating people. They’ve also reported one of their volunteers found most of the people they knew who have been sleeping rough, safe and sound.
If you would like to help this organisation directly, visit their website, www.winsome.org.au or 'The Winsome Soup Kitchen' on Facebook where you’ll find a link for donations.
We will draw the giant egg as soon as we have sold the tickets, and announce the winner on Facebook, Instagram and our website.
NEW STORE ... WE'VE MOVED!
We are now located across the road, at 187-197 Leura Mall, a beautiful old repurposed Church. Come say HI!
Our phone number will be the same 02 4784 2031.
Check out our new space here:
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