Bean to bar Chocolate Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City

You will know all the process to make a chocolate bar with this course. You will know how to pick good cacao beans from the first step of the process. The classes run for 2 hours and include: - Explanation of the pods to bars chocolate making process and history of cacao in Vietnam, how the Vietnamese make chocolate from local ingredients. - Tasting the fresh cacao pods - Husking your own cacao beans - Making your own cacao paste in the traditional style with a granite stone mortar - Making your own chocolates bar from the first step to the final bar, decorating your own chocolate and to take home with you. The class is at the store of Ban Cacao - Vietnamese chocolate maker , we make chocolate from local cacao. Materials for making chocolate: - Fresh cacao fruits - Cacao beans - Cacao nibs - Cacao butter - Cane sugar Tools for making chocolate - Granite mortar - thermometer - Scale - Chocolate mold -Wrapping paper