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Chocolate Works – Make Your Dream Candy Bar Workshop

January 22, 2018 by Victoria

โ€œThere is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.โ€ย  – Linda Grayson

When I have my two youngest children after school, they try various activities around the city. We recently checked out the Chocolate Works location in our neighborhood for their Make Your Dream Candy Bar workshop.

As you can imagine, my six year old and ten year old were excited to visit the neighborhood candy bar slash candy factory to make their own personal chocolate bar.

Allowing them to participate in a creative, hands on activity is a weekly goal for me. I had no idea the chocolate making process was relatively simple. They started by filling a small cup with candy from the candy wall. The only candy that was discouraged was rock candy. Otherwise, even wrapped candy could be used!

The candy was unwrapped and sorted in their gold chocolate bar mold. Not only was it fun to watch them choose the types of candy they wanted included. But it was interesting seeing how they placed them. A lot of thinking went into placement!

Once they were done deciding how their candy would be placed, they went over to the machine which filled their candy bar mold with milk chocolate. Helping to pour the chocolate was another highlight for my sons.

An added bonus to making their own candy bar at Chocolate Worksย was once the chocolate bar was put in the deep freeze, my sons were able to dip marshmallows in the chocolate fountain!

We have a chocolate fondue machine in our home but nothing beats a giant chocolate fountain that requires a step stool so you can reach the top!

And about ten minutes later, their candy bar was ready!

Filed Under: Share My World Tagged With: candy bar making, chocolate bar making, Chocolate Works

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Comments

  1. Michelle Leslie says

    January 22, 2018 at 10:02 am

    That’s just so awesome. I would literally be like a kid in a candy store if we had something like that here in South Africa. How did the chocolate bars taste?

  2. Fabiola Zefi says

    January 22, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    WOW. This is so cool and what a fun activity for the kids. I love anything chocolate so I’d do this as a adult, too! haha

  3. Aaron says

    January 22, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    Getting them to do something hands on EVERY WEEK is a serious goal. Is it hard to achieve that?

    PS: those chocolates look REALLY GOOD

  4. Cia Black says

    January 22, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    Yummy, I would so shell out the extra bucks to make my own candy bar. We have a local place that allows you to make you own ice cream, but I think, well I know I would enjoy the chocolate bar so much more.

  5. Samantha says

    January 23, 2018 at 2:37 am

    That is so cool! I would have loved this as a kid; I would love it now! The marshmallow fondue would be great too. How were they? BTW, what a great quote at the beginning.

  6. Joanna says

    January 23, 2018 at 4:53 am

    Who knew it was so easy to make chocolate candy bars! I love how the children are let to make their own decisions on what candies will go into their chocolate bar. They look so concentrated while arranging them into the mold.

  7. Stevie says

    January 23, 2018 at 11:53 am

    Wow! What a cool place! And now, all I want is Chocolate!!!

  8. Bea says

    January 23, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    Candy Bar Workshop? I did I not heard about this before! This is the type of activity I would love to be doing on weekends ๐Ÿ™‚

  9. Ithfifi says

    January 23, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    Oh wow this is so cool. I don’t think I’ve ever seen places where you can do this before but I bet they had such a fun time! I have to ask, it looks like there are cola bottles in the chocolate bar molds, how did they go down? I bet they also enjoyed testing out their creations! ๐Ÿ™‚

  10. shadlyn says

    January 23, 2018 at 4:53 pm

    Now that looks like paradise. I will definitely go check it out no ifs or buts.

  11. Alicia Taylor says

    January 23, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    What a fun experience! We don’t have anything like that near us. I know my kids always liked the places where you build your ice cream, but this looks much more hands on.

  12. Melanie williams says

    January 23, 2018 at 5:40 pm

    Yummy – yes please. I think both young and old alike would love this. My idea of willy wonka style chocolate fun haha x

  13. Tanvi Rastogi says

    January 24, 2018 at 10:16 am

    I would have gone crazy if I had that while growing up. Looks like such a fun place for kids. And now I too want chocolate.

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  14. Shubhada Bhide says

    January 24, 2018 at 11:06 am

    Wow!! That is really cool. It seems that your kids really enjoy making their own candy bar. I want to bring my kids there. I bet they gonna love it and enjoy that day.

  15. Preet says

    January 24, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    The workshop is so interesting and cool, My kids would absolutely love it. I love anything chocolate ๐Ÿ™‚ love all the pictures.

  16. steve walters says

    January 24, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    Holy cow!! My son would feel like he died and went to heaven! What a cool idea. I wish our local candy shop did something similar.

  17. Ellie Plummer says

    January 28, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    Wow, this is such a fun place, I would love to visit and I don’t even have children.

  18. Victoria says

    February 4, 2018 at 5:53 pm

    They did ask him if he really wanted the cola bottles in his candy bar. ๐Ÿ™‚

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