Tickets go on sale for MELT Festival of Chocolate in Rotorua

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Rotorua's mouth-watering Easter festival MELT is fast approaching.

Tickets are now on sale for the chocolate festival which will be held in Kuirau Park.

"MELT is about having fun, being indulgent and sharing time with family and friends, all in a beautiful place," event creator and director Alia Ryan said.

"It is four days of chocolate-powered indulgence with a mix of free and paid activities."

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MELT Central will have chocolate-themed vendors, exhibitors, demonstrations and products, a kids' play area, entertainment and various activities each day.

"Events include the Great Chocolate Cook-off where you can show off your chocolate cooking skills, the Rotorua Museum Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday, the Fondue Breakfast on the Monday, plus cooking demonstrations and much more."

Sarah Tatton from Cakealicious will run a cooking demonstration to show how to work with chocolate, and judge cooking competitions.

"It will be great to see what chocolate creations people will come up with. The chocolate barbecue competition will be interesting to see how chocolate can be incorporated in barbecues," Tatton said.

"For the cooking demo I will decorate a chocolate drip style cake, which is currently a very popular style of cake. I will show different techniques I use for chocolate decorations. At the end of the festival the cake will be raffled off to a lucky winner."

For tickets or more information about MELT: Festival of Chocolate go to www.meltrotorua.co.nz.

Earlybird tickets are available now for MELT Central entry and the Fondue Breakfast.

Members of the public can also register for the Fancy Dress Competition as part of the parade on Good Friday and enter the cooking competitions.