Ritter Sport!

  So, regardless of what the results of my recent blog poll showed, Ritter Sport chocolate is the brand to buy when your sweet tooth kicks in--just ask any German :-) But as it turns out, there is something even better than picking up a bar of chocolate off the shelf, and that is making it yourself! ...hey, that even rhymes :-)

 According to Ritter Sport, only kids make chocolate and so once my 18th birthday rolls around next month, I'll be banned forever from the chocolate workshop--I'll still be a kid though! So, knowing our time was limited, my host family took advantage of the two week Christmas break and took off to the nearby Ritter Sport factory for the day.

Once in the workshop, I sat down at a little table with Selina and her friend and it began. Everything, from the presentation of information to the available ingredients for the chocolate, was obviously geared for children, but at least that meant I had no problem understanding.

Jonathan and Christian were undoubtedly in heaven!

After being briefed on what we were supposed to do, (and not supposed to do) they lead us into another room where we choose our ingredients, mixed them with our portion of chocolate, and then poured the chocolate into a Ritter Sport mold. I chose roasted hazelnuts and gummy bears....I wouldn't recommend gummy bears but with chocolate...how bad can it get?

After 45 minutes we were set with our two bars of self-made chocolate. Only a few minutes later, I reached the discount factory store. Having just stocked up on extremely cheap U.S. bound Ritter Sport, I restrained myself and only purchased two limited edition flavors Once home, they joined the twenty-something other bars of chocolate I've accumulated on my chocolate shelf.


Yes, I have a chocolate shelf.