Chocoboise and Eclair Macaron. Honfleur (again), France. 1st July 2011.

Back to Honfleur again ready for the ferry, we couldn't resist one last French delight before landing back in the UK. So a quick dash into town lead us to the chic L'Art Chocolate a vey slick establishment and well worth a visit. Unfortunately we didn't get to to eat our chosen delicacies until after they had spent 4 hours at sea and six hours sitting in English traffic jams on the way back home to Staffordshire. They were still vey nearly perfect and it wasn't all down to the coolbox, there was lots of skill in making these.

First was the eclair, but no choux pastry in sight, it was made with chocolate macaroon, filled with creme anglaise and fresh summer berries, very classy! Quite biscuity, light, lovely and not too sweet. It's probably quite good that we can't buy these in our village shop, we would have to eat far too many.

Eclair Macaron
Cake Rating- 8/10 Cost 3.50 euros

Did we save the best 'til last though? A spectacular looking deep raspberry coloured dusting over a sculptured mousse cake. It was decorated with a whole vanilla pod and chocolate slice. On the inside it was a raspberry and vanilla mousse on a thin delicate sponge base, with a hidden surprise hazelnut layer and also the thinnest slither of sweet concentrated raspberry jelly. Creamy perfection.

Chocoboise
Cake Rating- 9/10 Cost 3.50 euros