Choco Castle

You must have seen it if you have passed through D. Tuazon in Cubao near the old LVN Studios. It's the castle, or at least a place that looks like a castle, and seems like made of blocks of chocolate.

It is supossed to be the Castle of Baking and Confectionary Arts, a culinary school established in 1995 by Annie Carmona-Lim, a pastry chef and entrepreneur, based on a posting in Wikipedia.

Chef Annie started commercial baking in 1977. She trained in local culinary schools and opened a homebaking business. Then she took a course in Master in Cake Decorating and in Gumpaste and Pulled Sugar Technique at the Wilton Cake Decorating School in Woodridge, Illinois.

She also attended the Culinary Institute of America in California, where she studied the making of European pastries, chocolate fundamentals and flavor dynamics. Later, she studied Chocolate Manufacturing and other confectionery skills in Solingen,Germany.

She also opened Chocolate Lovers Incorporated, a retailer and wholesaler of baking and confectionery supplies.

I am sure that Chef Annie is doing very well, not just on the basis of her "castle" but simply on the fact that very few people can resist Hersey's or M&M or Cadbury or even Goya.

I am probably one of the few.