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Learn how to make chocolate, starting from the cacao tree to the molding and everything in between, during this chocolate workshop in Cusco. Make organic chocolates and take your creation home.

Highlights

• Roll up your sleeves and engage in four essential steps of chocolate making
• Personalize your chocolate bars during a hands-on workshop in Cusco
• Try on drinks like the Mayan and the conquistadores once did in ancient times
• Savor delicious hot chocolates, using a variety of ingredients of your choice
• Leave with a bag full of your handmade chocolates, ready to savor or share

Description

Learn how to make your own chocolate at an interactive chocolate workshop and museum in Cusco. Understand the history behind the famous cacao beans, and why Cusco makes some of the finest chocolate around the world. Find out about the chocolate-making process from bean to bar. Under the supervision of instructors, discover four essential steps, including roasting cacao beans, removing cacao husk, grinding cacao nibs on a metate with a mano (the same way the Aztecs did), and refining cacao paste in a melangeur. Next, create delicious hot chocolates and your own chocolate bar, with your choice of ingredients. Take home all of your handmade chocolates unless, of course, you have already eaten them.

Includes

Chocolate workshop Instructor All materials to make your own chocolate 100-150g chocolate to take home

Important Information

• Your chocolates will be ready for pick up 45 minutes after the end of the workshop

Easy cancellation

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund