Inside Hidalgo’s chocolate factory where visitors make their own bars

Visitors to Mozna Chocolate don’t just watch chocolate being made — they make it themselves.

At the Hidalgo-based bean-to-bar chocolate factory, guided tours take guests through each stage of production, from roasting and grinding to tempering and molding cacao sourced from around the world. The experience ends with visitors creating, packaging, and taking home their own custom chocolate bars.

“This is the moment when everyone decides what kind of chocolate they want. You choose it, you create it,” said María Luisa, a member of the production team.

Behind the hands-on experience is a specialty food manufacturer founded in 2015 by Anthony Matulewicz and a business partner, built around producing dark chocolate that highlights the natural flavor of cacao without added sugar, preservatives, or oils.