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Popularity of cocoa-based drink has been growing since long time ago in tropical countries. Iced cocoa drink is highly consumed due to the fact that the ambient temperature in the tropical region is relatively high. This condition stimulates cocoa drink industries to continuously improve the quality of their products. This work investigated the performance of small-scale steam jet agglomerator used to produce instanised cocoa powder. This small-scale machine is designed to increase the solubility of cocoa powder, thus cocoa powder will be easily solubilised in cold water. In this study, a small-scale steam jet agglomerator was manufactured. Afterwards, the impact of three drying times, namely 60 oC, 80 oC, 100 oC and three levels of agglomeration process repetition, namely 1,2,3 repetition as well as their interaction on the solubility and colour of the products was investigated. The results showed that drying temperature, number of repetition and their interaction influenced the solubility and colour of the instanised cocoa powder. Whereas, the solubility decreased as the temperature and repetition were increased, the darkness of the colour increased as the temperature and repetition were increased.