Lindt Chocolate Factory in Zurich

Switzerland is the home of Lindt Chocolate. The Swiss chocolatier and confectionery company was founded in 1845. The Headquarters and Factory are in Kilchberg which is a municipality of Zurich.

We left Wengen and arrived in Zurich around noon.. but more on Zurich later.

We had wanted to go to the Lindt Chocolate Factory.. a cousin of mine had gone earlier and done a chocolate making course and that is what we were most interested in doing. We had made our own chocolate bars at the Hershey Factory in Pennsylvania many many years ago. But the Lindt experience promised to be more hands on. 

We were not going to be in Zurich for many days and they were nearly sold out but luckily we were able to find a few spots on our day of arrival. We took a bus from Zurich Lake to Kilchberg.

The Lindt Home of Chocolate welcomes visitors with an impressive chocolate fountain, standing over thirty feet tall. The seemingly weightless construction holds 900 pounds of real chocolate. Mmm.. the whole place smelled like chocolate. 

There was an interactive chocolate tour but we skipped it in exchange for the chocolate making class. 

It was a 50 minute class. We had a Lindt Master Chocolatier taught us about how to melt chocolate, pour it into a die in our to make our own bars and then we decorated them. While we waited for them to set and harden we watched an informational video about how Lindt sources it's cocoa and all the steps it takes to become Lindt Chocolate.

Afterwards our bars were ready, we removed them from the die's and packaged them, ready to take home.

  

Then we went chocolate shopping in what is the largest Lindt chocolate shop in the world!

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