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Artisanal Chocolate Bean to Bar Workshop in Cancún: A Delicious Journey into Chocolate Making

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Cancún

Join our Artisanal Chocolate Bean to Bar Workshop in Cancún and embark on a delicious journey into chocolate making. Learn the history, tempering process, molding, and more. Make your own chocolate bars and indulge in a special tasting.

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

KFC - Our Mayan Ancestors used to drink hot Chocolate in this lands over than 3000 years ago. In this special class with a local Chef, you will learn all the history and the legends behind one of the most loved products all over the world.\n\nThis experience consist in a small group cooking class of 2 hours where you will be able to use all your senses, touching, tasting and smelling all the fresh ingredients we will need to do a perfect chocolate bar, at the end you can take your own bars back home to share it with your friends and family.\n\nWe are going to welcoming you with a special cocoa drink made with the same chocolate we make here, with the highest quality standards.\n\nThen we are going to provide you all the ingredients to make your own chocolate bar, guided by the Chef, who is going to share with you all the secrets to make a perfect balance chocolate bar in a fun an a very interesting way.

What's Included

Presentation of chocolate making process
Snacks
Ingredients and materials to make your own chocolate bars
3 Chocolate bars
Bottled water

What's Not Included

Gratuities
Extras and souvenirs

Meal Options

Welcoming drink - Special drink made with cocoa inspired in the Mayan chocolate.
Chocolate tasting - Get to taste unique artisanal chocolate bean to bar products made by the chef.
Special chocolate dessert - We have a surprise for you.

Additional Information

Chocolate: Bean to Bar is an ideal aventurous journey for the chocoholics that gives you a detailed outlook on the chocolate production process right from its raw form to the cute-looking bar. You will dive deep into the history of this delightful product, which is deeply rooted in this area of the world. You will acquire skills on the proper method for the tempering process, casting, the farming techniques used by cacao producers, as well as recognize a genuine handcrafted chocolate from bean to bar. Under the guidance of a local chef, create your very own chocolate bars and indulge in a unique tasting session reserved for you.

Food allergies

Location

KFC

Calle Tepich

The meeting point is at KFC building at "La gran plaza" mall in Cancun city, you can take the bus R 2-15 from the hotel zone and tell your driver to drop you off at "La gran plaza" For an extra cost we can provide round transportation from/to your hotel, please let us know.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Jsanders4243

Mar 21, 2024

Learn about the importance of chocolate in Mexican culture, make some amazing chocolate, and taste the best - We really love taking food making tours whenever we travel, and a chocolate making activity seemed perfect. The tour starts at a local restaurant where the tour operator picks you up and takes you to the workshop, which is only a 5 minute drive away. This is because there's little to no street parking at the location. I will say, we were warned as Americans to be on the lookout in case someone tried to kidnap us, so getting into a car with strangers seemed a little odd, but I assure you, it's perfectly safe! At the workshop we got to first learn about the history of cacao, talk to the operator and the chocolatier, and ask questions. This is a hands on excursion which is a lot of fun. We first drank chocolate drink, which was so rich and authentic. We got to roast cacao beans, and then take melted chocolate and make our own large dark chocolate rounds for melting later. We also got to mix up and temper chocolate, form it into bars, and then put in whatever toppings we wanted. The chocolatier was so great to learn from and had so many amazing samples and things to try. After that, we sampled even more different gradients of chocolate in bitterness and sweetness, and we had fresh treats waiting for us. This was a great experience for the whole family. I initially pushed back on my wife for a chocolate making experience because I'm not a fan of sweets. But after this experience, I now find that I've developed a sweet tooth. Would happily do again!

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Steven

Nov 26, 2023

An amazing excursion…. A gem of an experience. - We were collected on time by Axel who was also to be our interpreter for this brilliant experience. Driven the short distance to an artisanal chocolate workshop where we had a lesson in how chocolate is produced from the seed being planted to the harvest and the regions growing it, then we tempered the chocolate and made a personal bar of chocolate to our own flavour and then wrapping it. The workshop was all hands on and at an easy pace. We were the only two on it so it was very personal. We tried numerous different chocolates while there from their artisanal range with different percentages of cocoa and each one was explained in detail to us. We left after two hours thoroughly happy. The excursion is probably not the usual kind of thing people think about doing when visiting Cancun, but you really should…..

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