Is there a connection between Welsh coal dust and premium chocolate? The immediate obvious answer would be no. That preconceived notion changed after my cousin visited the Big Pit National Coal Museum Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales.
For a century from 1880 to 1980 it was a working coal mine where they mined high grade type of coal used to fuel steam locomotives. The former coal pit re-opened to the public as a charitable trust in 1983.
As a souvenir of her visit, she brought back a bar of their Coal Dust chocolate being a curious chocoholic passionate to taste a new creation. To my eye it looked like a creative interpretation of coal dust sprinkled on a snow covered landscape. Its created by The Confectionist (www.theconfectionist.co.uk), Their Dawn Watts explained the bar is made with premium white couverture chocolate formulated with a high percentage of cocoa butter and cocoa solids. The coal dust effect is created using small pieces of honeycomb, enrobed in milk chocolate, dusted with edible black sugar
The connection now explained and it tastes delicious.
A discovery journey with Laurence Civil of his best tasting experiences 
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