Antigua Cooking Class & Chocolate Workshop from Guatemala City

Market tour, cooking class, homemade lunch, chocolate workshop, and printed recipes to take home

A full-day class from Guatemala City combines a 1.5-hour tour of the Antigua Market, a hands-on cooking class where you prepare a main dish, two sides and a dessert, and a 2-hour chocolate workshop at ChocoMuseo Antigua where you roast, grind and shape your own chocolate. A local guide leads the day in English or Spanish, lunch is included, and you leave with printed recipes and chocolate you made yourself.

Step-by-step itinerary

Market tour, cooking class, and chocolate workshop

• Tour Antigua street market
• Learn about Guatemalan ingredients
• Attend cooking class with expert chef
• Prepare main dish, sides, and dessert
• Enjoy home-cooked lunch
• Visit Choco Museo in Antigua
• Learn chocolate making process
• Make your own chocolate

The experience

You start at the Antigua street market with your guide, walking through stalls to see and smell the ingredients that anchor Guatemalan cooking: corn, peppers, beans and the Spanish and Mayan flavors layered into them. After 1.5 hours there, you move to the kitchen for a safety briefing and then begin cooking under an expert chef's watch. You'll prepare one main dish (hilachas or tamales are options), two side dishes and one dessert like camote en dulce or rellenitos. The chef guides you through each step, and when everything is done, you sit down and eat what you made.

In the afternoon, you head to ChocoMuseo Antigua for a 2-hour chocolate workshop. You start with cacao beans fresh from the harvest and roast, peel and grind them into paste. From there, you learn to prepare the traditional chocolate drink the Mayas invented, then move to making your own chocolate bar to take home. The whole process, from bean to finished product, happens in front of you and under your hands.

The day runs about eight hours total and includes your guide, lunch, and printed copies of every recipe you made so you can cook them again at home. Pickup from Guatemala City is included. The guide speaks English or Spanish depending on your preference.

What’s included

• Cooking class with an expert chef.
• local guide in English or Spanish.
• lunch you prepare and eat.
• 2-hour chocolate workshop where you make your own chocolate.
• printed recipes.
• pickup from Guatemala City.

Before you book

Days and timesTuesday to SaturdayDeparts at 08:00

Book up to18h before

AgesAdult (12 to 85 years) · Child (3 to 11 years) · Under 3: can't be included in the booking

GroupUp to 12

Live guideEnglish and Spanish

Meeting point and pickupHotel pickup included.You can choose from 29 pickup points.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.

Prices and times updated 11 days ago

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Guatemalan Adventure

Is this one for you?Book this if you have a full free day in Guatemala City and want to spend it learning to cook and make chocolate rather than sightseeing: the market tour, kitchen time and chocolate workshop fill the whole day without rushing between stops.

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Top questions

What languages is the guide in?

Live guide in English and Spanish.

Can children come?

Yes. Ticket types: Child (3 to 11 years). Under 3: they can't be included in the booking.

What exactly do I cook in the cooking class?

You prepare one main dish (such as hilachas or tamales), two side dishes and one dessert like camote en dulce or rellenitos. The chef teaches you the techniques and cultural background of each dish as you work, and you eat everything you make for lunch.

Do I really make the chocolate from scratch at ChocoMuseo?

Yes. You start with cacao beans, roast and peel them, grind them into paste, and then shape your own chocolate bar. You also learn to prepare the traditional Mayan chocolate drink before moving to the modern chocolate-making process.

Is transportation from Guatemala City included?

Pickup from Guatemala City is included in the booking. The guide will arrange the meeting point details with you before the day begins.

What do I take home at the end of the day?

You take home the chocolate you made at ChocoMuseo and printed recipes for every dish you prepared during the cooking class so you can recreate them at home.