Chocolate bar and chocolate rocks workshop in the Born

This is the workshop where you really work with chocolate. They give you a piping bag filled with 62% chocolate, a bar mould, four toppings, a mix of nuts and lollipop sticks, and in an hour and a half you make three different things: a decorated bar, some nut rocks and lollipops. You learn to fill the mould and to handle the piping bag, and you take everything away in a bag. It includes entry to the Museu de la Xocolata.

Basic techniques from the guild's workshop

It is given by the museum of Barcelona's pastry guild, which makes its own chocolate from the bean. It is for over-16s and costs €25 per person. The workshop includes a tasting; if you have allergies, write beforehand to [email protected]. Sessions are not advertised with a fixed timetable on the website: you see them when you buy in the museum's ticket shop.

If you prefer tasting to cooking, the same museum has a pairing of Penedès wines and cavas with chocolate for over-18s: also 90 minutes and €25, with four glasses and four chocolate medallions from its workshop.

An afternoon in Sant Pere and the Ribera

The museum is at Carrer del Comerç, 36, in the former convent of Sant Agustí. You get there from Arc de Triomf, line 1, or Jaume I, line 4, in about seven minutes on foot. It fits well with a stroll through the Born and the Parc de la Ciutadella, which is a few minutes away.