Wicked Chocolate Festival 2017

Overview

First it was the Cheese Festival. Then it was the Sausage Fest. Finally, Prahran Market completed the holy trio of meats, cheese and chocolate with — you guessed it — a chocolate festival.

After a delicious start in 2016, the Wicked Chocolate Festival returns for another year on Sunday, May 7. As well as on-stage talks about the stuff, a kitchen where you can see how it's made and tasting events, Melbourne's finest will be pulling out their best chocolate creations at the Pop-Up Chocolate Precinct. This will include — are you ready for this? — chocolate doughnuts from Doughboys, a chocolate dessert pizza from 400 Gradi, a chocolate butter bar from King Valley Dairy, and a caravan bar serving chocolate cocktails. There'll be everything from hot chocolate to cold chocolate (read: ice cream), and rich chocolate mousse to choc salted caramel lollipops. Want more? There'll also be a chocolate fountain.

The market is known for their decidedly delicious events, and this one is set to be just as epic and coma-inducing — especially if you enter the chocolate eating competition. The Weiss Chocolate Eating Comp will see seven contestants pitted against each other to see who can eat the most chocolate in two minutes. They'll win a $250 prize pack, which includes market goodies and — you guessed it — more chocolate. Contestants will be selected by ballot — so to enter, just email your name, age and phone number through to chocolate@prahranmarket.com.au before April 24. In the meantime, we suggest you start practicing with some blocks of Cadbury Dairy Milk and a few rounds of The Chocolate Game. Fingers crossed you roll a few sixes.