This is a very small cafe almost opposite the Museum in Stranraer (which is well worth a visit). The cafe was warm, welcoming and delightfully bright and sunny when we visited. The Rocky Road looked good, marshmallows, cherries, chocolate with white chocolate drizzled across the top and a fluttering of almonds. And it didn't taste bad either. But, and sorry but there is a but, I'm just not a fan of this style of Rocky Road even though it is a pretty common recipe. It's the kind of Rocky Road that has a crumbly bottom (not good for anyone!) made from crushed biscuits with, I suspect, some cornflakes or something in there. This gives it a good crunch but when it's combined with a hard chocolate topping it makes for an eating disaster. This combination of really solid top and crumbly bottom means that most of the base just disintegrates when you bite it and scatters across the table. You lose a good 10 per cent of the traybake in crumbs and it also makes you look like a really messy eater. There's also something about this hard chocolate top, is it a mixture of real and fake chocolate? It does something weird to marshmallows, it takes away that delightful softness and replaces it with something chewy. I have to say the coffee was good and the rest of the extensive cake and traybake selection looked great. The Rocky Road was fine, but it will not make my top ten for 2012.
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