Kook Monk Chocolates

Kook Monk Chocolates

Such a bizarre array of experimental hot chocolate. Two dollops of hard chocolate to start: a dark chocolate covered fig (stem in? Really?) and a blue cheese truffle, the latter of which worked surprisingly well, though it begged for a bread or pear or a speck of salt...
Kook Monk Chocolates

Wychwood Chocolate & Pastry Fair; Pain Perdu

An elderly man sat shaking slightly in front of three cakes; I felt like I should walk away having had SOME chocolate besides three merckins. He gave me a crushed slice extracted from a cake hidden behind the presentable ones; Betty Crocker would have tasted better....