Looking for ideas for a corporate event? Our ‘High Heels’ chocolate-making course is sure to be a hit
Who needs a glass slipper when you can have one made of chocolate?
Our creative corporate events are so varied that there’s something for everyone. A classic favourite is – and always will be – our chocolate high-heel moulding course. In this course, you’ll first choose one of our pre-moulded chocolate high heels, which you’ll then decorate.
The shoes are freshly moulded from the finest Swiss chocolate (couverture) before every corporate event. You can choose from high heels made of white, dark or milk couverture.
This team-building event is aimed at all teams who enjoy letting their creativity run wild and are looking for a break from the stresses of everyday business life. Have a laugh together whilst creating your dream shoe.
As the shoe can be personalised, the chocolate high heel makes an excellent gift. Personalised gifts are always the most fun – especially when the gift is edible.
Chocolate High Heels Workshop – Your chocolate-themed team-building event
At the start of the team event, each team member will choose one of our pre-moulded chocolate shoes (approx. 180 g). You can choose from shoes made of white, dark or milk chocolate couverture. These are freshly moulded for you before every corporate event. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, it is not possible to mould the chocolate shoes yourselves during the corporate event. We will therefore be working with pre-made shoes.
Once you’ve made the first decision for your creative corporate event, the course leader will demonstrate how to use a piping bag to conjure up various decorations on the shoe – be it lettering, hearts or simple dots.
You decide what your shoe will ultimately look like. Before you try your hand at the shoe, you’ll practise the designs on a separate sheet of greaseproof paper. Once you’ve decided on a design, it will be applied to the shoe.
As the decoration needs to set before you move on to the next step, make a chocolate bar in the meantime. This will play an important role again at the end of the corporate event. When making the chocolate bar, you’ll have the same selection of the finest Swiss couverture to choose from: white, dark and milk chocolate.
You are free to customise this bar as you wish. To complement the chocolate, you have a range of ingredients at your disposal, such as Hüppen flakes, hazelnuts, chilli threads, almonds, Fleur de Sel, freeze-dried fruit and much more.
In this step, too, the choice is yours. As creating a delicious chocolate is our top priority, tasting is, of course, an essential part of the process.
Once the chocolate bar has been poured, it’s time for the final sprint of the corporate event. You’ll paint the shoe with special food colouring and decorate your creation. To do this, you’ll have edible lace decorations made from sugar paste – also known as ‘cake lace’ – sugar pearls or chocolate at your disposal. Stick a piece of cake lace onto the toe of the shoe, sprinkle the shoe with glitter or embellish your high heel with a border of sugar pearls – whatever takes your fancy.
Finally, the shoe is stuck onto the homemade chocolate bar.
Finally, the resulting chocolate creation is beautifully packaged in a sturdy box suitable for transport.
This course is ideal as a corporate event or team-building activity for clubs, companies or groups of up to 50 people.
Our course leaders are fluent in both German and English and will be happy to assist you in either language during your corporate event.
This corporate event is, of course, also suitable for men. Surprise your mum, wife or daughter with a personalised gift that she’ll love! For a woman, there’s hardly a better combination than chocolate and shoes.
Key details about the event
That’s what everyone at the event realises
A high-heeled shoe decorated by myself (approx. 180 g) and a bar of chocolate I made myself (approx. 150 g)
Event duration
approx. 2 hours
Event venue
Zurich-Adliswil; off-site delivery also possible
Event language
The course can be delivered in German or English.
Number of participants
6–50 people in Adliswil / 20–50 external participants
Event costs
A team event for up to 6 people costs a flat rate of CHF 510. Each additional person costs an extra CHF 85.
Would you like to order a crunchy snack to go with that?
Fancy something savoury to go with your sweet event? Why not pair your event with a matching snack? Raise a glass together with a glass of sparkling Prosecco, water or fruity orange juice. We’ll serve you some small savoury nibbles to go with it.
Crunchy snack per person CHF 9.-
The crunchy snack includes a glass of Prosecco, orange juice or water per person. We’ll also serve you snack stations with a mix of crisps, pretzel sticks and pretzel fish.
Some photos of our event venues
It was only in January 2020 that we acquired six newly built event venues in Zurich Adliswil. However, we also operate throughout Switzerland and would be happy to come to your company’s premises.
3D virtual tours of the event venues
Would you like a delicious aperitif to go with it as well?
Would you like something savoury to go with your sweet event?
Why not combine your event with an aperitif freshly prepared by us? Raise a glass together with a glass of sparkling Prosecco, fruity orange juice or a fine wine. To accompany this, we’ll serve you – depending on your preference – small savoury nibbles, delicious canapés or a sumptuous buffet featuring a wide variety of treats.
You can choose from the following three aperitif packages, each of which includes one glass of Prosecco or orange juice per person, as well as unlimited still water.
Here is the selection of our three aperitif packages:
Crunchy snack
Snack stations with a mix of crisps, pretzel sticks and fish-shaped crisps.
Crunchy snacks: CHF 9 per person
"Savoury" canapés
Canapé stations with a selection of crisps, pretzel sticks and fish fingers, 2 gourmet sandwiches per person, vegetable sticks with a variety of dips.
“Savoury” aperitif: CHF 25 per person
"Geniesser" aperitif
Snack stations with crisps, pretzel sticks and fish fingers, 3 gourmet sandwiches per person, vegetable sticks with a selection of dips, tomato and mozzarella skewers, a selection of warm mini quiches and crispy ham croissants.
“Geniesser” aperitif: CHF 35 per person
Do you have any questions or is anything unclear?
Here you will find an overview of the most frequently asked questions. If you have not found a suitable answer to your query, please feel free to contact us by telephone on 044 480 14 14 or by email at events@minischoggi.ch.
After the event, the organiser will receive an invoice by email for the number of people booked, which must be settled within 14 days. Of course, we can also send the payment slip by post on request.
The reason we send an invoice is that we do not have cash registers on site to process payments. In rare cases, we may require payment in advance or by card because the invoice z.B. is addressed to someone with a foreign billing address. MiniSchoggi reserves the right to do so at any time. Thank you for your understanding.
Unfortunately, the parking situation in the cities of Zurich and Bern is somewhat difficult, and we cannot guarantee parking spaces there; we can only direct you to car parks in the immediate vicinity. Thank you for your understanding.
In Zurich-Adliswil, there are dozens of parking spaces along the River Sihl, which are even free at the weekend. You’ll always find a free space there. If, contrary to expectations, this isn’t the case, please pop into the restaurant and we’ll show you where you can find additional parking spaces.
With every aperitif package booked, we also provide orange juice or mineral water alongside the Prosecco for those who do not wish to, or are not allowed to, drink alcohol.
The events usually take place around a large table, so participants remain seated. This makes our event ideas very suitable for people of all ages. At the chocolate bar events, however, participants regularly get up, mix the ingredients themselves and collect the chocolate from the chocolate station on their own. This means that participants regularly have to stand up and sit down, as well as walk short distances around the room. However, if this only affects one person, it is no reason not to organise the event, as our course leaders – and no doubt the other participants too – will be more than happy to help.
At the cupcake event, we deliberately avoid using toppings that wouldn’t withstand a long evening or warm temperatures. Decorations made from fondant, flower paste or royal icing hold up well even in warmer temperatures, so it’s absolutely no problem.
Chocolate withstands temperatures of up to 25 °C without direct sunlight. However, if you’re storing them in warm places, such as in a car or similar, it’s advisable to take a cool box or similar with you in the car to ensure nothing goes wrong.
If temperatures are higher, we’ll provide you with a cool bag for your chocolate creations instead of a standard carrier bag. This will keep the chocolate cool for several hours under normal conditions. However, if the chocolate is left in the sun for longer or temperatures are very high, you can always place a cold drink in the cool bag to ensure the chocolate remains protected. In extremely hot weather (above 30 °C), we’ll provide cooling pads to ensure the chocolate definitely doesn’t suffer.
At the cupcake event, you’ll be given a special box for transport, so that the cupcakes are well protected.
At the Cookies event, the cookies are packed into attractive bags and then placed in a box, ensuring they are well prepared for transport.
If you’re decorating high heels at the event, you’ll be given a box made especially for this purpose, into which the moulded chocolate slab fits perfectly. You’ll attach your high heel to this chocolate slab using a little chocolate, so that the shoe is securely held in place. This ensures the shoe is protected as well as possible for onward transport.
For the praline team event and the chocolate bar event, you’ll receive a box for the pralines to ensure they’re well protected, whilst the truffles are placed in a bag. The chocolate bars are also packed in clear bags.
At the end of each event, you’ll be given a carrier bag for transport, which can also be labelled with your name to avoid any mix-ups.
If you are going to be out and about for a while afterwards, you can store your creations in a locker at the station, in a car (if available), or, if you prefer, we can store the creations you’ve made here for a few days and you can then collect them from us later.
The cupcakes will keep for 1 week, although you can also freeze them with their decorations on. This extends their shelf life to 3 months.
The biscuits have a shelf life of 8 weeks and can simply be stored at room temperature, away from direct sunlight.
Chocolates and truffles will keep for 4 weeks at room temperature, away from light, whilst the chocolate bars and chocolate high heels will keep for at least 6 months.
You’ll therefore certainly have plenty of time to enjoy your creations or give them as gifts to your loved ones.
We ask that you arrive on time for your event so that the schedule can run smoothly. If you arrive late, the course organisers will be forced to shorten the event accordingly. Depending on the day, the event room may be needed again either before or after your event. We are therefore reliant on the time needed for set-up and cleaning. Alternatively, the course organisers may have other appointments or may have finished work for the day; we would therefore be grateful if you could arrive no earlier than 10 minutes before the event and leave the room afterwards, so that the course organisers can begin cleaning.
A cosy atmosphere is very important to us. Therefore, it is absolutely no problem and does not incur any additional costs if an event runs a little longer; however, for the reasons mentioned, we cannot make our rooms available for games or similar activities afterwards.
We would like to thank you very much for your cooperation and understanding.
Please notify us of any changes as soon as possible, preferably by email or, in the case of events, by telephone within 24 hours on 044 480 14 14.
Reductions in the number of guests: Our entire preparation process begins one week before the event, and the event venues are usually set up several days in advance, so that on the day of the event, only the fresh ingredients and fillings need to be prepared. Therefore, should there be a last-minute reduction in the number of guests, we are unfortunately unable to take this into account in the final bill. However, we recommend that the group still prepare the dishes for the person who is unable to attend – usually for health reasons – so that they can still enjoy a taste of the event at home.
Should the number of participants fall below 6 for two-hour events or below 10 for one-hour events, please still prepare the quantities for 6 or 10 people, as we are required to charge for at least this number of participants.
Increases in the number of participants: Inthe vast majority of cases, we can accommodate a last-minute increase in the number of participants without any problem. In isolated cases, however, this may not be possible if z.B. a significantly larger number of people turn up or the products are no longer in stock.
Further details regarding the processing and invoicing, as well as the exact procedure for events that have already been confirmed, complete cancellations or postponements, can be found in the Terms and Conditions, which will be sent to you when you request a quote.