Crystal Grotto Caverns

Yeah, I told you I was into caves now, right? Formations are fascinating...and it's warmer than it is outside right now. I've now covered PA and MD, so VA in a few months! This trip was to Crystal Grotto Caverns only about an hour west of my house. This was a much shorter tour and smaller cave, but still pretty neat. Though honestly, the two kids on the tour with us made it worthwhile. They were so amazed! Sometimes you forget how interested kids can be in new experience. Everyone should be that entertained. 

Chocolate Making

Last week I took a chocolate making class at Sweet Cascades Chocolatier. It was well worth the price and we had a ton of fun. We brought wine, mine was from a wine and chocolate tasting event so I knew it would go well. The shop provided chocolate covered strawberries and various other goodies for us to munch on throughout the evening. We even sampled a bunch of raw chocolates with varying degrees of cocoa. Then we got to the truffle making. We had prepared ganacheand our choice of toppings. I have to say, the old bay truffles I made were amazing. Crab seasoning on chocolate. Weird, yes, at first. but the salty/sweet combo was great. We had little chocolate bowels to make a cute little gift bag with all our goodies. I'm still working my way through the 15 truffles I ended up with. So much yum.