I was also pleasantly surprised that the class was so well-attended. The $25 cost of the class was a little expensive, but it was nice to support a local business and we got to take home our own chocolate bar. The class was educational and it was cool that we got to taste the different stages of the chocolate making process. Overall, I thought the class was a fun activity for our girls day out. After the chocolate bars cooled, we wrapped our bar in foil and attached a paper wrapper around the bar. I decided to make my chocolate bar with puffed rice, sea salt, hibiscus powder and chipotle powder. Next, we added various spices and other flavorings to the chocolate such as sea salt, cacao nibs, pink peppercorns, ground coffee, chipotle powder, ginger, hibiscus powder, coconut, etc. Then we poured melted chocolate onto the plastic mold until the scale until the scale read 40 grams and placed the mold onto a vibrating machine which leveled the chocolate and took the air bubbles out. The make your own chocolate bar portion of the class started with placing a plastic mold onto a scale and zeroing out the weight of the mold. It also contained 5 espresso shots worth of caffeine in a single bar! I also thought the Café Con Leche bar, which was a white chocolate bar flavored with Hawaiian coffee beans, was very unique.
My favorite chocolate was the company’s triple cacao dark chocolate bar, which is the only chocolate bar to include pieces of raw cacao fruit in it. We got to sample the product at each stage of the process, first with the ripe bean, then the fermented dry bean, next the roasted bean, and finally five of the company’s most popular processed chocolate flavors. The class began with a classroom style introduction of the origins of chocolate and a brief description of how the company makes it chocolate from bean to bar. Walking into the shop, we were immediately hit in the nose with the delicious smell of chocolate. The 90 minute class is held every Friday at the Madre Chocolate Company’s Chinatown location and we paid $25 for the class. Last weekend my friend Margot got married and as part of the wedding weekend festivities, a few of us attended a Make Your Own Chocolate Bar class conducted by the Madre Chocolate Company, a bean-to-bar chocolate company on Oahu, Hawaii.
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