Hanoi Bean-to-Bar Chocolate-Making Cooking Class

Handcraft chocolate from Vietnamese cocoa beans in a 1.5-hour hands-on chocolate-making workshop.

Getting started

Begin your 1.5-hour chocolate-making experience by checking in at the workshop and meeting your local chocolatiers. After a short introduction to Vietnamese cocoa, you receive the essential tools for making chocolate at your own station. Once everyone is set up, the instructors outline the steps you will follow, from working with cocoa beans to creating finished pieces.

What to expect

Handmade chocolate workshop: from cocoa bean to chocolate bar

This workshop focuses on the full journey from cocoa beans to handmade chocolate, guided by local chocolatiers. Across 1.5 hours, you move step by step from raw beans to your own decorated chocolate bars and bite-sized pieces.

Features

• Learn about Vietnamese cocoa and how cocoa beans are processed into chocolate, then try hands-on chocolate-making activities that include cracking, peeling, grinding, molding, and decorating cocoa beans yourself.
• Use the essential tools for making chocolate at your station while you discover simple chocolate-making techniques from local chocolatiers, with guidance at each stage of the process.
• Shape your own chocolate bars with personal designs and toppings, so every bar reflects your choices while you join a creative activity suitable for families, couples, and friends.
• Taste freshly made chocolate during the workshop as part of a dedicated chocolate tasting, and at the end, take home 12 handmade pieces, a tangible souvenir of your bean-to-bar experience.