Care home residents treated to a tasty choccy workshop at Pendine

Our sweet-toothed residents we're treated to a tasty workshop.

Residents, staff, and family members, got together for a delicious workshop by Denbigh Chocolate Shop at our Hillbury care home at Pendine Park.

Enthusiastic choccy fans crunched biscuits, and mixed them with Belgian chocolate and marshmallows to create yummy rocky road.

Hillbury resident John Molyneux, 70, got in on the action and had a great time at the choctastic demonstration.

He said: "It's lovely and everybody is happy. I got involved in making the rocky road and it looks very tasty.

Alan Hassall, 67, a resident our Bryn Bella care home, had a blast at the chocolate workshop, even though he couldn't actually eat any because he's diabetic!

Alan said: "I've been mixing biscuits with the chocolate and putting in the marshmallows. I've enjoyed myself very much. I can't actually try the try the rocky road though because I'm diabetic but I've still really enjoyed myself because it's brought everyone together.

"I like taking part in activities here because it keeps you occupied. I do a lot of art here as well. The people here are really friendly."

Denbigh Chocolate Shop Assistant Ceri Belshaw, 25, added: "We're making rocky road and the residents getting involved and helping out.

"We've melted the chocolate, and we're crunching the biscuits and mixing everything together with marshmallows. It's great fun. You can't go wrong with chocolate. "

The chocolate workshop was the brainchild of Anita Moran, an Activities and Well-being Coordinator at Pendine.

She said: "I found out that National chocolate Week was coming up and I just through ‘what can we do?'. I was looking for something different and something new. Everybody loves chocolate. You can see that that the residents are really paying attention. When I told them we were going to be having a chocolate workshop everyone started licking their lips.

"We've got family members here as well and they're really enjoying themselves and the residents are getting into it and taking part.

"One of them has a background in care and that really shows.

"The demonstration is interesting, everyone is laughing and joking - it's brilliant.

"The girls who are doing it are really great with the residents.

"I think I'm going to have to take a trip to Denbigh just to go to the Chocolate Shop."