Puerto Viejo Chocolate Making Class: From Bean to Bar Experience
4.8
62 Ratings
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
Indulge in a hands-on chocolate making class in Puerto Viejo. Learn the history, intricacies, and processes of chocolate making while making your own delicious bar to take home.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Unnamed Road - During our time together we will visit cacao trees and learn about their history, culture and medicinal uses. Then we’ll return to our chocolate making kitchen where we will learn about fermentation and the magical processes of turning a cacao seed into a chocolate bar. We will make a bar from beans from the farm, covering every part of the process in exactly the way we make chocolate everyday. You’ll leave with roasted beans and fine chocolate!
What's Included
- Tea and coffee
- Snacks
Meal Options
- Try fresh cacao fruit and fermented and dried beans! - Roasted cacao and chocolate!
Additional Information
Ever longed to produce your own chocolate or dive deep into the enchanting world of creating this beloved sweet delight? This course is just for you!
In a span of 3 hours, you’d embark on a historical journey, learning about everything from the tree’s history, the myths, to the substantial role that cacao and chocolate held in Mesoamerican cultures. Needless to say, you’ll also be making chocolate. Starting from tasting the raw fruit to roasting, grinding, and separating the shell from the nibs, you’ll get the chance to work like a professional, crafting award-winning chocolate. You’ll discover some extraordinary medicinal benefits of chocolate before creating your own therapeutic chocolate to bring home. Lastly, you will temper freshly-melted chocolate and create your own bar to wrap and savour later.
There might be chocolate tours worldwide, but this one delivers a true hands-on experience - brace yourself for some chocolaty mess!
An entertaining and yummy class!
Location
J6WQ+J3 Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
Playa Negra is just outside Puerto Viejo. We are the last building on the right on entrada pan dulce. Look for Talamanca Chocolate on google maps. We are the last building on the right, a low brown building with a green metal roof.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(62 Ratings)
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Judy
Apr 2, 2024
A MUST!! - The best class I've had in a long, long time. I learned much about cacao trees and chocolate. This is a MUST tour!! Ansel is extremely informative and thorough.
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Luciehs5805vo
Mar 15, 2024
Great value and very interesting tour - We absolutely loved this tour. Such good value. Ancel was lovely, informative and inspiring. She had a genuine passion for the history, value and symbolic meanings of cacao. We got to make delicious chocolate to take away with us.
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Emas81
Mar 11, 2024
Great insight into the history and production of chocolate - Great workshop with lots of information about cocoa and its history. Ancel knows a lot and shares her knowledge freely.
We learned about all the stages of chocolate production and were able to try each one 😄 The whole atmosphere on the plantation was very relaxed, from the people to the many animals.
Thank you very much!
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Ourfa_m
Mar 3, 2024
Educational - Amazing experience! Learned so much about cocoa and its connections to nature and humans! The history and how its the bar we buy today! Very interactive experience- we got to try every step of chocolate making and taste them too! Highly recommend
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Cheryl_o
Feb 4, 2024
Intimate, relaxed and... - Intimate, relaxed and educational. Enliven by friendly dogs and fowl. Of course, the chocolate was amazing. Highly recommend.
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Mitchell
Feb 3, 2024
Great class to learn about cacao and chocolate and to make some of your own! - Great class if you’re looking to learn this history of the cacao plant and some history of the area in general. We basically made the chocolate from bean to bar, tasting it at all different stages and everyone got to participate in all the processes. Learned quite a bit and had fun and some tasty snacks in the process! Highly recommend.
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Leigh_o
Jan 22, 2024
Amazing experience! - We had the most magical time. The farm was great. We got so hands on and learned so much! It was a full 3 hours of education, exploration and chocolate making!
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750stefanic
Jan 19, 2024
Sacred wisdom of cacao - One of the very best workshops I’ve ever done. Ansell is truly a font of deep wisdom and honours the sacred tradition of the cacao plant. You will never see chocolate again in the same light!
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Y2882kbelizabethw
Jan 16, 2024
A not to be missed experience - Excellent workshop. The owner is very knowledgeable and interesting. The farm organic approach is comprehensive and fascinating.
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Adela_j
Apr 12, 2024
Not what I expected - The lady seemed passionate about chocolate making but this class was basically hours of just listening to her talk about the origins of chocolate which got pretty boring after 1 hour. I had hoped for more of a hands on experience which we barely got to do. She let us crack open some cacao beans and that was it. Eventually we got to taste the chocolate which she literally told us would be gross because they are not meant to be eaten. Even the hot chocolate she made for us was bitter and had no flavor.
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