In the middle of Pennsylvania farmland and Amish country is a factory emitting the sweet aroma of chocolate. The town of Hershey is known as Chocolatetown, USA. Right smack dab in the center of town is Hershey’s Chocolate World, a visitor center immersing you in all things chocolate, as in all things Hershey.
Create Your Own Candy Bar
Chocolate wonks, or “Wonkas”, rejoice! Milton Hershey’s famed chocolate company opened in 1900. An entire community developed around the factory that produces the iconic Hershey’s Chocolate Bar and other confections.
Still, the Hershey Bar is king here, and you get to see the process of making one up close. Not just any chocolate bar, but one reflecting your personality, where you choose the ingredients and design your own chocolate wrapper. The Create Your Own Candy Bar experience is $26.95 per person, free for children under age 2. It’s fun, interactive, entertaining, and, of course, sweet tasting. The final product comes in a keepsake tin box with personalized wrapper. Your bar is thicker and bigger than the traditional Hershey Bar sold in stores.
Follow The Production Line
The journey begins at the entrance where you put on a sanitary apron, hair net, and face mask. Then you proceed to a computer screen. Type your name and choose your bar, milk or dark chocolate. Plus, add any two of seven choices of ingredients. I chose dark with pretzel bits and sprinkles. Or, you can go with a chocolate-only bar, but what fun would that be? Then follow your bar on the production line through every step of creation. The entire experience takes about 45-minutes. However, if you spend too much time at a second computer kiosk to design your bar’s wrapper, you can miss the final stages of production. There are so many design choices and layouts to choose from!
I ate my chocolate bar, but I can see making another to give as a gift to a special person with their favorite ingredients. That would be cool. In fact, you can order personalized chocolate bars from Hershey if you can’t make it to any of the Chocolate World locations. If you do go to the Hershey location for Create Your Own Candy Bar, an advanced reservation is required. There are a limited number of spaces available every day.
Chocolate World has several attractions. Each priced separately, or can be bundled together to save some money. Create Your Own Candy Bar is the most popular and the sweetest of all.
Step-By-Step Candy Bar Making Video
Steve and Susan Geiger visited Hershey, PA in August 2021. The retired couple live in Tampa, FL. They travel the USA and the world in search of interesting and fun destinations.
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