South Bend Chocolate Company and Factory - South Bend, Indiana

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Chocolate Lovers Should Visit the South Bend Chocolate Company and Factory. If you love chocolate and you are in the South Bend area of Indiana, then you have to stop by the South Bend Chocolate Company and Factory. A visit to the factory and museum is fun, educational, and quite tasty as well. Everyone in the family who has a sweet tooth will have a great time visiting the factory and the museum.

At the factory, you can learn all about how chocolate is made. You can learn about the Aztecs who discovered chocolate and created chocolate drinks for special occasions and ceremonies as well as about the cacao trees that produce the pods full of cacao beans. You can also learn about how chocolate came to Europe.

The most interesting part of the factory tour, however, is watching how the chocolate is made and how it is mixed together with other ingredients to create different tastes. You will also be able to see the enrobing machine, which creates a waterfall of chocolate to cover candies. Each day, the South Bend Chocolate Company and Factory makes thousands of pounds of candy. When it gets close to the holidays, the amount of chocolate that they make actually doubles!

After the candy is created and enrobed, it goes through the cooling tunnel. The candy takes about fifteen minutes to cool completely. Afterwards, the candy is boxed in regular boxes and gift boxes.

The part of the factory tour that people love the most is the sampling. You get to try some of the great tasting chocolate, and you will probably want to buy some to take home with you as well.

The factory is not the only place that you can visit when you come to the South Bend Chocolate Company and Factory. They actually have an entire museum dedicated to chocolate. Some of the interesting things that you can see at the museum are a chocolate pot that is more than 1600 years old, antique tins and boxes, and rare chocolate molds. You will find a number of other interesting items at the museum as well.

Tours of the factory and the museum are available from Monday through Friday from 9AM to 3 PM and on Saturday from 9AM to 3PM.

3300 W Sample St.
South Bend, IN  46601
574-233-2577