ChocoMuseo Chocolate Workshop in Cusco, Bean to Bar
From €30 per person
See availability →A chocolate workshop in Cusco at the ChocoMuseo where you roast, peel, grind and refine cacao by hand, then mold your own bar and take 100 to 150 g of chocolate home.
This chocolate workshop in Cusco takes place inside the ChocoMuseo and is hands-on from the first minute. You learn the story behind the famous cacao bean, and why the chocolate made around Cusco has such a name, while instructors watch over each step of the process.
The workshop follows chocolate from bean to bar, in four essential steps. You roast the cacao beans, remove the husk, grind the nibs by hand on a stone metate, the way the Aztecs did, and refine the paste in a melangeur.
- Roast the cacao beans
- Remove the husk
- Grind the nibs on a metate
- Refine the paste in a melangeur
You then prepare hot chocolates with ingredients of your choice, like the drinks the Maya and the conquistadores once sipped, and shape your own chocolate bar, personalized as you like. Everything you make comes home with you, between 100 and 150 g of chocolate, unless you eat it before then.
The workshop lasts around two hours, and the instructor and all the materials are included. Transport is not.