Wanderlust: Fudge Kitchen Experience

On our final day in Edinburgh we went for a Fudge Making Experience at Fudge Kitchen in Edinburgh with the lovely manager Will & his assistant Bradley!

Being a total sweet tooth I knew I wanted to do this when we visited Edinburgh since I first added it to my Pintrest list years ago! :) We don't have a fudge kitchen locally to us (the nearest is in Canterbury, Kent) so it made sense to go to the Royal Mile shop in Edinburgh whilst we were there so we donned our aprons and got making some fudge!

Will has been working at Fudge Kitchen for over 17 years and was a total pro and helped us quite abit with the makingness as its actually pretty hard work making the fudge - need alot of upper arm strength  for all the mixing! He was really knowledgeable about the history of fudge and was really funny.

We started by heating the secret ingredients for a toffee fudge in a large brass cauldron on a fire stiring away until the mixture had reached the right temperature (200 something degrees if I'm remembering right??)  and then we poured it on to a huge marble table to cool between a frame to keep all the mixture on the table. Then we then ate some fudge that Will had made earlier and waited for it to cool down and set a little.

We used these long shovel like things (imagine a snooker cue with a shovel on the end of it) to mix everything again until the mixture became a lighter colour (images from the Fudge Kitchen above show the process)


By this time the fudge was starting to set so we shaped it with some smaller shovel things to get it in to a long rectangular shape ready to cut.

Cutting the fudge was actually the hardest part! I was terrible at it, Rich was slightly better :) After we cut off 6 nice big slices we popped these in a box and kept these. As part of the experience we also were allowed to pick 6 of the fudge blocks we wanted behind the counter. We chose Eton Mess, Lemon Meringue Pie, Rum & Raisin, Double Chocolate, Chocolate & Vanilla Swirl, and Chocolate Orange.

I also ended up picking up the Fudge home making kit so I might have a play with this again at Easter time whilst we are off and the hot drinking fudge :)

After our great time at Fudge Kitchen we got the tram & hopped on our plane back down south. Can't wait to go back to Edinburgh again , will def do one of the Ness bus tours again and maybe be daring enough to go in the Edinburgh dungeon!

Love , Sarah x

Wanderlust: The Ness Bus Whisky, Highlands & Loch Ness Tour

Ness Bus Tours - Whisky, Highlands and Loch Ness -

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The highlight of our trip has to be on the Saturday when we went to Loch Ness. We booked the "Loch Ness, Highlands & Whisky Tour" through "The Hairy Coo" website as part of our first visit to Scotland. Admittedly,  I was worried as had never booked a tour before and my parent had traveled with another tour company and had an awful time a few years back. So I was really picky when I came to finding a tour to book with . 

I found the Hairy Coo site and liked that it was easy to book, reviews were good and it was designed for those who are young or young at heart. Booking process was easy and you pay on the day so you just tun up to one of the many meeting points that is sent to you on our confirmation of place booking email and off you go! 

Deanston distillery - Our first stop on our adventure to Loch Ness

Our guide Alistair was brilliant - funny and really knowledgeable and kept us entertained on the journey with scottish music, story telling and teaching us about historical things about Scotland. We started of with a visit to Deanston distillery, whilst some of the group chose to do this tour, me and the boy decided to take this opportunity to have a bacon roll as it was still pretty early in the day (started at about 8am and was at the distillery by 9am) 

From there we went through the mountains and highlands and saw some absolutely spectacular scenery, we were very blessed with the weather as the cloud cleared and we had blue skies for the whole day. We took some amazing pictures of Glen Coe which was the area that the James Bond film Skyfall was shot. 

We got to Loch Ness by midday where you could choose to have a boat tour or walk around the loch. we chose the latter as there wasn't the time to do both and we needed to stretch our legs. We took some great shots of the Loch, had a lovely salmon sandwich and I found what I thought anyway - looked like Nessie! :) 

We will def book another tour with these guys again! We had such fun and it was the highlight of our trip to Scotland! Thank you Alistair for being such a great guide! 

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