Our last afternoon in Tassie was leisurely spent at a cafe at Eaglehawk, between Hobart and Port Arthur, killing time before our 8pm flight. Inside the cafe are photographies and paintings created by local artists, and bunches of fresh flowers (including an amazing dark purple bunch of gladiolus) for sale.
We ordered their two cakes on offer - Sticky date pudding with warm caramel sauce and home-made vanilla ice cream, and chocolate-espresso cake served with fresh organic berries, berry frozen yogurt, and home-made raspberry coulis.
ARGH what a treat!!! The sticky date pudding was satisfying (sweet tooth delight) and the vanilla ice cream was SO creamy it felt more like frozen cream. But what really grabbed us was the presentation of the chocolate cake. What a feast for the eyes! Fresh berries - strawberries, red currents, silvenberries, raspberries - grown at the premise, fragrant, juicy, sweet and slightly tangy. Perfect. These berries alone deserve a 10/10, while the chocolate cake was a bonus. The frozen yogurt had fresh berries mixed into it and was delightful to the tastebuds. And, did I mention the raspberry coulis? I have never tasted/seen raspberry coulis like this, rich, thick, fragrant, fresh and really made with raspberry! Not like the thin-watery-red-food-colouring-artificially-flavoured coulis you see in most cafes. Divine.
Heading down Port Arthur way? Must stop here.
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