Chocolate Tempering & Bonbons Techniques

A full-day overview of everything you need to know about fine chocolate making. In this hands-on class, you'll learn proper chocolate tempering and molding, including coloring and design work. You'll cover the difference between couverture, fine chocolate, and cheaper chocolate — including cocoa butter percentage and how it affects viscosity and workability — plus the tools, environment, and humidity considerations for working with chocolate. From there, you'll dive into tempering methods, chocolate mold care and prep, coloring chocolate with tempered cocoa butter, shelling and filling molds, and capping bonbons. With a look at profitability and shelf life for finished product. The day mixes explanation, live demonstration, and hands-on practice, with time built in for Q&A.

Skill Level: Beginner–Intermediate, some chocolate experience welcomed but not required.

What's included: all ingredients and tools, apron, and your finished chocolates to take home.

Details:

• 6 hours | $170 per person
• Max 10 students
• Format: live demo, then you make your own with hands-on guidance from instructor
• What to wear: closed-toe shoes, hair tied back, apron provided
• Refunds/reschedules available — up to 48hr before class

All classes are booked on a first-come, first-served basis and are subject to our class policies.

Age Requirements: The minimum age for this class is 16 years old, or contact us if the student has prior chocolate experience.

Breaks: Students will be given a 30-minute break halfway through the class. We encourage students to bring their own lunch.

Registration Gift Card Bonuses:

• Register 30 days in advance and receive a $10 gift card
• Register yourself and a friend and receive an additional $10 gift card
• Please note: all gift cards will be received on the day of class

Photographs — Permissible and encouraged for social sharing. However, students sharing class material or step-by-step illustrations will not be permitted in future classes.

Videotaping — Prohibited.

What do you do when life hands you lemons? Well, if you're 2 Chicks with Chocolate founder Elyissia Wassung's mom, you by-pass the lemonade thing entirely and go straight for the chocolate! When a disabling car accident left her unable to commute to work, Elyissia's mom turned to making chocolate in her kitchen as a way to bring home the bacon! Elyissia would load up her shopping cart and venture down her Queens, New York, blocks going door to door to sell all she could until one day some neighborhood bullies stole her candy and her money! She learned then that the risks of owning one's own business were greater than she thought, but by then she was already bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and well-launched in the chocolate business!