Chocolate Workshop: From Bean-to-Bar
Your rustico chocolate from bean-to-bar
Chocolate workshop with laflor
CHF 150.-/person
- - 3h
- - Zurich Altstetten
- - 6 to 8 people
- - From 12 years
- - Introduction
- - Material is provided
Photos @ Lukas Lienhard
Laura, founder of laflor and Sarah, chocolatière
In laflor’s new factory in Zurich’s Werkstadt district, the rich aroma of chocolate mingles with the hum of the machines. Here, the laflor team has created a place where passion and craftsmanship come together.
Anyone who meets Laura at a chocolate workshop, a market tour or her popular wine seminar “Schöner Saufen” will immediately recognize her passion for good food and being together with people. Her commitment to sustainably and fairly produced food is reflected in her work, as is her love for the people behind the products.
Sarah, the master chocolatier, discovered her passion for chocolate in Solothurn, where she learned the confectionery trade and gained further experience at Casa Nobile and Oro de Cacao. Her interest in the origins of cocoa led her to Costa Rica, where she deepened her love of the bean-to-bar process. Her expertise ensures that La Flor maintains transparency and quality in every bar.
Content Chocolate Workshop
Immerse yourself in the world of Sarah and Laura and make rustico chocolate yourself from scratch. The chocolate workshop begins with roasting and then grinding cacao nibs on small stone melangeurs. The result is a slightly crispier chocolate, similar to the traditional Taza chocolate from South America, where the sugar is not completely melted.
You then have the opportunity to refine your chocolate with selected spices to add your own personal touch. The chocolate is then poured, molded and packaged. During the production process, you will also learn a lot about the history of cocoa and chocolate and can enjoy a cup of hot chocolate from laflor.
At the end of the workshop, you will take home your decorated and self-wrapped bars of chocolate – to give as a gift or eat yourself!
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Location & How to get there
laflor, SBB Werkstadt, Hohlstrasse 400, 8048 Zurich
Accessible by public transport (bus stop SBB Werkstätte or tram stop Freihofstrasse) or car (parking garage Letzipark).
