Learn and experience the chocolate making process from farm-to-bar. This 4 hour session will include:
- Information about growing and harvesting cocoa beans on the farm
- Hands on experience processing cocoa including:
- Sorting and selecting quality cocoa beans for processing
- Roasting cocoa beans for flavor development
- Winnowing cocoa beans to remove shell and collect cocoa nibs
- Grinding nibs, sugar, and milk powder into bulk chocolate
- Hand tempering chocolate to achieve an ideal cocoa butter crystal structure
- Hand dipping/coating items with tempered chocolate
- Producing chocolate bark with inclusions
This camp is limited to 12 participants, ages 8 -11.
Time: Starts promptly at 1pm. Finishes at 5pm.
Includes: All supplies and materials, professional instruction, items made by the student during class.
