Special Events

Wow, what a busy weekend, we were invited to come to the Christopher and Banks stores at the Dayton Mall of Friday to do two events. One at the CJ Store and one at the main store. We were able to set up right at the door so we could catch people walking the mall along with their customers. It is fun to introduce Dove Chocolate Discoveries to the people of Dayton. As a result we booked a show, have a possible chocolatier and were invited to go to the C&B at the Greene on Sunday for a private party. We just arrived home from another successful event.

Our goal is to touch as many people as we can in August, book parties for September and start making some more money. With school starting people are focused on their kids, but soon that will be over and they will need lots of chocolate.

I tried molding the chocolate into some halloween candies and they were very successful. It is much nicer to hand out little white chocolate ghosts rather that a broken piece of a bar. They always invoke smiles from our potential customers and they get to taste the fantastic white chocolate.

Our Pumpkin Chai Spice Dip is always a rousing success, taste just like cheesecake and is so easy to make and transport in our little covered plastic cups.

Hopefully this intro period will be over soon and the parties and monies will start rolling in.

We are tired but happy so it is on to Monday.

Another Chocolate Event

Sunday my new Chocolatier will take on the early customers at Yankee Candle in the Greene, in Beavercreek. Not sure about the time of the event but it is still a good opportunity to get the word out about our great Dove Chocolate Discoveries opportunities here in the Dayton, OH area.

It seems all we really have to do is mention Chocolate and other businesses jump up and down with delight. I suppose it is because we are so new and you don't have to buy kitchen supplies or jewelry to take advantage of this great tasting. And who doesn't like some kind of chocolate?

The First Show

We had our first show for friends and family. What a hot, crazy mess! Kids, lots of people forgot to come, dogs were seriously hyper and We really need a script. It was a great opportunity to try the products that we hadn't tried and happily everything tastes good. Okay, seriously not much worry since everything is chocolate. The display table was complete and looked nice.

Our show was rocky at best. We did not exchange talking time. I became Vanna to her Pat Sajak. I pretty much expected that to happen. I love her but if I don't want to be the sidekick I need to do my own shows.

We had kids so we decided to make virgin chocolate martinis. I took the underage to the kitchen to make the virgins at the blender. Well, the shaker lid would not come off for the loaded martinis and the shaker came into the kitchen for surgery. Everyone got so involved in the shaker drama that the presentation for the Virgin martinis was pretty much ignored. Of course, the service for the VM's was fully focused and they were delish ... I hear. I didn't get to taste any which is okay, I was pretty chocolated out. The loaded martinis were not great. Vodka with syrup, souper strong limited chocolate flavor. This is their biggest seller? We definitely did that one wrong. Although, all of it was consumed. Maybe, the guests (or hosti) needed Vodka to get through these show.

The moonpies were super messy in that perfect tasting decadent delicious way. Brownie mix with marshmellow fluff and chocolate topping. The fluff got a little soft and everybody had chocolately fingers and smiles.

We have a mousse packet that you are supposed to make at the party to show how incredibly easy it is to make. You put 3/4 cup of whipping cream to 1 packet of mousse mix melt 2 bars of dark chocolate. Pipe in onto spoons ... voila anyone can do it! Unless you buy half and half instead of whipping cream. Doh!

Props to Jessie, she mixed that half and half for 10 minutes with no stiff peaks. I just kept serving chocolate. (Fondue, Almonds, White Chocolate, Chocolate Covered Grapes) She called for Cool Whip and saved the mousse demo. Yeah! and it tasted great! (of course half and half, cool whip and chocolate .. what's not to like)

We didn't pimp the product as much as we should have so our sales weren't great. Actually, our sales were zero, no show, no business partners. But everybody got a boat load of free chocolate. And we got insight into how seriously bad our presentation is right now. The big money shows are coming up so we can fix the problems. Hopefully ...