Barcelona Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Making Workshop

From cacao pod to chocolate bar:
learn the bean-to-bar process hands-on

This is a 2-hour hands-on workshop. First, you observe a cacao pod and learn what work is done on the farm to obtain cacao beans.

Roast and grind cacao to make cacao paste

You carry out the main steps of chocolate making yourself: roasting, peeling and grinding cacao to make cacao paste. All the ingredients and tools you need, plus an apron and hat, are provided.

Make cacao drinks while learning the history of chocolate

While learning about thousands of years of chocolate history, you make a variety of cacao drinks. Finally, you make your own chocolate bar to take home.

Learn about bean to bar and cacao-growing communities

At the end of the workshop, you learn what bean to bar means and look at the lives of local cacao-producing communities to understand all the effort they put in. You also receive a personalized certificate of completion and a workshop summary of what you learned.