St. Lucia Is for Chocolate Lovers

Take a chocolate workshop

Go to the chocolate lab at Jade Mountain, a cliffside luxurious resort dripping in romance with entrance row seats to the island’s most well-known pure landmarks, to take part within the on-site Uncover Chocolate workshop.

“Every part is completed by hand right here,” says teacher Emmany Hippolyte, who teaches small teams of keen chocolate tasters. Going from bean to bar is a meticulous operation, from sorting beans one after the other to tempering the chocolate to sprucing and wrapping the completed bars. The entire course of takes place in-house, because of the resort’s natural farm, Emerald Property. With 1,000 resident cocoa bushes, Jade Mountain and its sister resort, Anse Chastanet, are distinctive “tree to bar” producing properties. The workshop opens with a brief historical past lesson earlier than launching right into a hands-on chocolate making expertise, the place individuals be taught the step-by-step course of for bars and bon bons, and even try to assist mood the chocolate, which is an artwork.

Craft your individual bars as a select your individual adventure-style culinary exercise with the various toppings: cashews, sea salt, peanuts, and extra. Whereas they set, you’ll taste-test the resort’s signature chocolate varieties, unbelievable combos influenced by the island’s pure crops. Every part from cashew, nibs, and lemongrass, to chipotle, and my private favourite, cinnamon. Handmade chocolate bars make the right memento…when you can resist consuming them earlier than leaving the island.

Friends can take part within the Uncover Chocolate workshop on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and generally Saturdays. The Emerald Property Farm Go to and chocolate tasting mixture will be booked on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, with extra of the historical past and farming of cocoa.

Sip cocoa tea from a neighborhood market

Swap your traditional espresso or tea for St. Lucia’s quintessential morning beverage. Cocoa tea is thick and velvety with a singular taste from its mix of spices. Cocoa sticks are sometimes grated and simmered in scorching water or milk, with cinnamon, bay leaf, nutmeg, vanilla, and somewhat sugar blended in. The tea is extraordinarily widespread among the many locals — a staple on the Saturday morning market in Soufrière, it’s offered from the window of the brilliant pink Snackette constructing and distributors make their very own with cocoa sticks underneath the pavilion.You may sip the staple drink virtually wherever on the island within the mornings. The Castries Market is one other nice possibility (Monday to Saturday) for these venturing as much as the northwestern area St. Lucia.

Bask in a chocolate spa remedy

You don’t need to eat or drink to expertise St. Lucia’s chocolate scene. Surprisingly, chocolate will be good in your pores and skin with its hydrating and antioxidant properties. A lot of St. Lucia’s resorts provide chocolate-infused wellness packages. From a mocha therapeutic massage or exfoliating chocolate citrus physique polish at Jade Mountain and Anse Chastanet, to a cacao facial or cacao therapeutic massage at Rabot Property from Resort Chocolat, there’s no scarcity of specialised chocolate therapies to attempt. In spite of everything, nothing says romance like a pair’s chocolate-themed spa remedy.