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Chocolate Works – Make Your Dream Candy Bar Workshop

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“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”  – 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 Works 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!

Comments

  3. 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. 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. 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. 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.

  8. 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 🙂

  9. 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! 🙂

  11. 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.

  14. 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. The workshop is so interesting and cool, My kids would absolutely love it. I love anything chocolate 🙂 love all the pictures.

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