Ebbs Carr Cafe, St Abbs.

This little cafe sits right down at the harbour in St Abbs, a lovely village on the east coast of Scotland just north of Berwick upon Tweed. It's a great destination for bird watchers and divers.
The cafe serves a great Cullen Skink soup and fresh crab sandwiches. In the interests of the nationwide survey of Rocky Road I sampled their version of the popular traybake. This particular sample was the kind that has a base and then a separately applied topping. Good chocolate in the base but not sure what else was in there it was all pretty much mushed together. No cherries sadly. The top consisted of large marshmallows. So top marks for general taste and for marshmallow but the lack of cherries or any chunks of anything else means that I can only give it a 6/10.

Warning for anyone visiting. Seagulls. Seriously. The waitress warned me to keep a close watch on my Rock Road or the seagulls would steal it - we were sitting outside I hasten to add. I thought she was joking but two particularly menacing gulls never took their eyes off our food and one managed to twice steal the butter from my husband's plate. We found it quite funny but small children, or anyone with a phobia of birds would find it pretty alarming. My advice would be to sit inside the cafe because it would be a shame to miss the excellent Cullen Skink and Crab sandwiches.

Rocky Road Traybake

Rocky Road, is there a definitive recipe? I think not. There are such variations in this traybake and, of course, in the end it's down to personal taste what you put in. I've decided to blog about my findings. Some may say this is just a poor excuse to eat more Rocky Road and, well, they could  be right. Who cares.


Cream Puff Cafe, Denholm, 


So, for my initial post I would like to introduce you to the Rocky Road I sampled at the Cream Puff cafe at Denholm near Hawick in the Scottish Borders. I was on my way home from a few days away with my husband and as usual I was on the look out for somewhere to have a coffee and a cake. Luckily this little cafe is right next to the main road through this picturesque village so it caught my eye. The cafe itself is quite delightful, full of all the lovely shabby chic, Cath Kidston style that may be all over the place in the Home Counties of England but is far from common in the Borders. My husband had lovely sweet potato and red pepper soup and a ham sandwich made with some fabulous bread but we're not really interested in that.
Let's get to the point. I had a piece of Rocky Road and it was very good. Made with good chocolate it had a generous cherry content which goes down well with me. It also had a crunchiness to it and suspect there were cornflakes in it. Not sure about that in a Rocky Road but it did taste good. Only criticism was that it was a little light on marshmallows. However I would give it 7/10.