Today we visited Lime Tree Larder and met with Alex and Jean Wilson the very lovely and welcoming owners.

We visited this  artisan chocolate factory as  a way to celebrate the finishing off our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory topic .

Jean shared with us how Lime Tree larder create their fantastic chocolates and she told us all about the different regions of the world that chocolate ( cocoa ) is grown.

Did you know that there are four types of chocolate?

There is Dark chocolate made with a high concentration of cocoa and very little sugar, Milk chocolate which is made with  a mixture of cocoa, sugar milk and cocoa butter, White chocolate which is cocoa butter (extracted from the cocoa bean ), sugar and milk and last but not least Rubi chocolate , made from a very special cocoa bean found in Venezuela ,milk and sugar. The Rubi chocolate is pink and we thought it tasted like strawberry!

We had so much fun and got to taste A LOT of tasty treats!