Cocoa Mountain ‘The Best Hot Chocolate’ (Durness)

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2

    mugs
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Taste of the Highlands

By Ghillie Basan

Published 2021

  • About

When Paul Maden and James Findlay moved from the busy city of Glasgow to set up Cocoa Mountain in Balnakeil Craft Village in the windswept, north-west corner of the Highlands, their friends thought they were mad. Situated in a disused RAF Cold War Camp linked to an early-warning system of nuclear attack, the Village’s run-down low-lying buildings may not be pretty but there are studios of colour and talent within, not least the old sergeant’s mess where the