Private Classes & Experiences

The perfect activity for your coworkers, family, or friends. Choose from one of our experiences below or work with our team to customize one for your event. We can host your group at our Brooklyn factory or bring one of our unqiue chocolate experiences to you!

 

Off-Site Experiences

Journey of Cacao Chocolate Tasting Station OR Workshop


Price:

Starting at $1,000 - $1,400


Capacity

Up to 50 people


Length:

1 hour


Book our Chocolate Tasting for an interactive experience for the senses. We’ll Take you through the journey of chocolate – which starts with a fruit. We’ll bring fresh cacao pods, cut them open and get to taste the fruit and have a “shot” of cacao juice, we’ll taste 3 unroasted single-origin cacao beans and then segue into a full range chocolate tasting of our single-origin chocolates. Participants will learn about cacao sourcing and flavor profiles, and learn how to taste chocolate like a pro. As a parting gift, participants will get to go home with one of our full sized chocolate bars.

Interactive Truffle Making Station OR Workshop


Price:

Starting at $1,000


Capacity

Up to 100+ people


Length:

2 hours


Bring a one of a kind, engaging dessert station to your next event! Our vegan dark chocolate ganache truffles are luscious and rich, and guests will be able to dip and decorate their own box of 4 truffles. Live chocolate tempering demo happens on a marble slab, and guests will get "hands-on" with their dessert by getting to dip their truffles in the tempered chocolate, giving them a nice shell, and then roll them in topping options. Truffle ganache base flavor is customizable – ex: earl gray tea or wine infused truffle. Rolled toppings options are also customizable – ex: five spiced sugar, fruit powders and coffee cacao. This dessert station is the perfect way to incorporate a fun and customizable, yet high-end dessert to your next event!

Gourmet Hot Chocolate Station


Price:

Starting at $30 / person

$800 minimum


Capacity

Up to 100+ people


Length:

2 hours


Choose from our seasonal hot chocolate mixes OR rich chocolate melted couverture for our hot chocolate station. All vegan – we’ll bring all the supplies needed. You’ll be able to choose from a variety of add-on toppings, from a cozy spiced sugar powder, to mini marshmallows, halva chunks and crushed candy cane. We’ll also bring our house-made GF waffle cone cookies for folks to enjoy alongside and dip into their hot chocolate. We provide cups and lids. Perfect for a morning treat, event nightcap, fun addition to any team happy hour or holiday party.


Private Factory Experiences

Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Making


Price:

Base Rate:

$100 / person

Weekday $600, Weekend $800


Capacity:

8 people


Length:

3-4 hours


Get down to the “nibby” gritty in our immersive bean-to-bar dark chocolate making class. You’ll start from scratch by selecting the single origin cacao beans you want to use, winnow them, grind and mill them, temper, pour, and then voila chocolate bars! This class is will set you up with the skills to actually make bean-to-bar chocolate at home with your own equipment. This class also includes an extensive tasting of the chocolate we make here at Raaka.

Interactive Chocolate Truffle Station


Price:

Base Rate:

$75/ person

Weekday $600, Weekend $800


Capacity

15 people


Length:

1.5 hours


Learn how to make your own batch of French-style dark chocolate truffles using our in-house vegan dark chocolate ganache, handmade by our head chocolate maker. You will cut and hand roll your own set of truffles, learn about tempered chocolate, and finally roll them in classic and seasonal toppings. This class is customizable -- for an infused ganache base as well as the toppings we use -- decided in advance. You'll go home with the truffles you made in class along with new skills to make your own truffles at home!

Chocolate Pairing Experience


Price:

Starting at $75 / person

$1,000 minimum


Capacity

Up to 20 people


Length:

1.5 hours


This experience is an exploration of single origin coffees/teas and chocolates, and how to pair the two to enhance the flavors and enjoyment of each. We start the experience with a coffee cupping or tea tasting where each participant will learn and do their own cupping or tea brew. We compliment the coffees and teas with a curated chocolate pairing, where participants will learn how to taste chocolate like a pro, to maximize the tasting experience. This will be accompanied by a light treat made by a local business to cap off the class.

 


Virtual Experiences

The Journey of Cacao - Virtual Chocolate Tasting Experience


Price:

$100 / person (includes shipping)


Capacity:

N/A


Length:

Up to 1 hour


Become your own chocolate explorer during our immersive virtual chocolate tasting experience. You'll get a full introduction to our company, each of the three unique cacao origins we work with, and the bean to bar chocolate making process. This is a full on experience for the senses. Participants will be guided through the journey of cacao starting at the origin and the fruit. In this tasting experience participants will first taste cacao fruit (dried & juice), three single-origin unroasted cacao beans. Then, we’ll guide participants through a full range chocolate tasting of six bars, where we'll give a run down of how to taste single-origin chocolate like a pro, and how to interpret flavors. Class includes visual elements via zoom, as well as printed materials, to enrich the experience further. You'll never think about or taste chocolate the same ever again!

 

Each participant gets a box shipped to them containing:

  • 6 full-sized Raaka Chocolate bars
  • Cacao Fruit & Cocoa Bean Samples
  • Printed Materials: Tasting Wheel, Worksheets, Origin Trading Cards

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