School Workshops at York Cocoa Works

At York Cocoa Works we are an open working chocolate factory in the heart of York.

We're inspired by York's chocolate making heritage to craft our own chocolate from cocoa  beans we source from farms around the world. We look forward to welcoming your group to join us to learn how we craft our chocolate, how the city's heritage inspires what we do today and how we're trying to make chocolate that's different.

Our educational workshop program offers a number of components for us to share our chocolate experiences with your group:

Manufactory Tour Party for Schools:

Explore the journey of a cocoa bean and the origins of cocoa, it’s celebration by the Mayans and Aztecs and its journey to Europe. We'll taste cocoa beans as we explore the physical transformation that evolved over 2000 years of consumption from raw cacao beans, roasted cocoa nibs, cocoa mass to dark chocolate and eventually milk chocolate.

£15.50 per student - available for up to 12 participants per group

Duration: 45 minutes

Manufactory Tasting Tour and Making for Schools (small groups):

Learn how our chocolate is crafted in a tasting tour around our manufacturing process at York Cocoa Works, before sampling a range of chocolates exploring the flavour and features of the cocoa we work with to craft our chocolate.

One of our expert chocolate makers will share the secrets of our cocoa and how we transform it into chocolate. You will discover our origins and learn the rich history of chocolate making in York before taking a peek into our manufactory and watching our chocolate being made.

You will sample the chocolate we make from cocoa beans all around the world, experiencing the different strengths and flavour notes in our range.

Following the journey, participants are invited to craft their own chocolate treat to wrap up, take home and show off!

£15.50 per student - available for groups of 12 participants per group

Duration: 1 hour

School Workshop Package (groups 15 - 30 participants)

Combine our Factory Tour with a hands on chocolate lesson exploring the Art of the Chocolatier. Explore the origins of cocoa and the journey our cocoa goes through to be transformed into chocolate by tasting the making process.

We'll explore the tempering process required to work with chocolate, before participants create their own chocolate treat that can be decorated how they choose before wrapping  it up to take home and show off. 

£10.50 per student - available for groups of 15 to 30 participants per group 

(larger groups can be catered consecutively or with one of our partner venues)

Duration: 1.5 hours

The Science of Chocolate Making

We explore chocolate with all of our senses  before exploring the changing states of chocolate when undertaking the tempering process. Each participants will make their own chocolate bar to take home and enjoy.

This workshop is perfect for older students with a more hands-on chocolate exploration.

£22.50 per student - available for groups of 12 to 24 students

Duration: 1.5 hours

Introduction to Chocolate Making

Learn how to make a gorgeous ganache based chocolate truffle before learning  the art of tempering chocolate to hand dip and beautifully decorate your truffles and packaging to take home and enjoy.

£42.50 per student - available for groups of 8 - 24 students

Duration:2 hours 15 minutes

Join us at York Cocoa Works

To book please select your preferred date and time from our reservation calendar together with your preferred activity and the number of anticipated participants. A member of our team will come back to you to confirm availability and will share an invoice for your booking to be paid before your workshop with us.  

Discover more online www.yorkcocoahouse.co.uk/SchoolWorkshops 

For School workshops off site contact our team on events@yorkcocoahouse.co.uk