Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Workshop Brussels: Make Truffles

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Duration1h 30m

GroupUp to 60

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Roll up your sleeves and make real chocolate, not the melted kind.

You'll taste fresh cacao pulp and raw beans straight from the pod, then spend 90 minutes making mendiants, truffles, and a personalized chocolate bar in a real bean-to-bar factory — the only one in Brussels that isn't using industrial chocolate. Everything you make gets packaged to take home, and you'll know that part of your ticket price is funding fair wages for the farmers who grew the cacao.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Belgian chocolate workshop experience

Arrive at Chocolate Academy Brussels
Taste fresh cacao pulp and raw beans
Sample pure cacao mass and single-origin chocolates
See bean-to-bar chocolate machinery
Learn from certified artisan chocolatiers
Create mendiants and handmade truffles
Make personalized chocolate bar
Package chocolates to take home

The Experience

The apron they hand you at the door is embroidered with their logo, which sounds small until you realize it means you're not walking into a tourist demo space — you're walking into an actual chocolate factory in Brussels where the people working there actually make chocolate for a living. Our guide, one of the certified artisan chocolatiers, starts by pulling out a fresh cacao pod. It's heavier than you'd expect, and when she cracks it open, the beans inside are coated in this white, fruity pulp that tastes nothing like chocolate. That's the moment it clicks: chocolate doesn't start as chocolate. It starts here.

The 90-minute workshop moves fast but doesn't feel rushed. You taste single-origin cacao from different countries — each one tastes wildly different, which nobody tells you beforehand — and then you move to the making part. You're crafting mendiants (those flat chocolate discs with nuts on top), hand-rolling truffles, and building your own personalized chocolate bar from scratch. The machinery is right there in the room, and the guide explains what's happening at each step because this is their actual workspace, not a stage set. The chocolate you're working with comes from their own bean-to-bar process, which means it's traceable and sourced through a supply chain with no deforestation and fair income for farmers — 33% of what you pay for the workshop goes straight to the cacao farmers, which is the kind of detail that sticks with you while you're tempering chocolate.

By the end, you've packed your creations into a gift box to take home, and you get 20% off anything in their boutique on the way out. The whole thing happens in English in their Chocolate Academy in the heart of Brussels, and it's wheelchair accessible if that matters for your group. The workshop fills up, so booking ahead is the move.

What’s included

Your 90-minute workshop includes tastings of several premium single-origin cacao origins from different countries, a fresh cacao pod to hold and taste raw cacao beans from, the chance to make mendiants, hand-rolled truffles, and your own personalized chocolate bar, all packaged in a gift box to take home.
You'll also receive 20% off the entire chocolate collection in the boutique.
If you select the VIP upgrade, a glass of champagne and an embroidered apron with their logo are added.

Good to know

Wheelchair accessiblePets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by The Belgian Chocolate Makers SRL

Is this one for you?Right for travelers who want to understand where chocolate actually comes from and make something real to take home, rather than just taste pre-made samples. The 90 minutes are paced for learning and hands-on work, so you'll be focused the whole time — not a rushed demo or a long afternoon.