So during our Toronto trip we were walking around kensington market in the morning to see what cool stuff (especially food) there was. Note.. do not go early in the morning because many places weren’t even open yet.
We walked around and found a shady looking TD atm machine place. This space could only really fit one person. It was perfect, because I really needed to withdraw some money out. AND BOY AM I GLAD I DID.
BECAUSE. Low and behold do you know what we stumbled upon?! CXBO (Chocolates x Brandon Olsen). I heard of them first through instagram a while back and I saw they made these beautiful disco eggs. You’ll see as you scroll down how beautifully-made the chocolates are. Truly, little tiny works of art in each one!
CXBO is owned by chef and chocolatier, Brandon Olsen, and artist Sarah Keenlyside! I would love to be able to see the process in how they make these one day!
So… I kind of waited around a week or so for our girl’s night to eat the chocolates. Clearly truffles don’t last very long (it started crumbling). But it was very soft and it’s still bit more on the sweeter side for me but creamy and yummy!
I’m sad I forgot to bring my camera to take these, but thanks Nana for letting me use your camera!
This is just beautiful! And arguably one of the most expensive chocolate I ever bought for the quantity I was getting (around $3-4 a piece?). But it’s about quality (amirite??). Though, I’m not a chocolate expert or anything so this is just based on pure personal preference (well all 4 of us tried it and we pretty much had similar, if not the same, kind of conclusion.
First of all I must point out it comes in the cutest box. I wonder if they hand make each printed design on it?
From this list, can you already tell which ones would be a hit or miss for you?
From this I was really interested in the:
- Raspberry, rose, fennel
- Yuzu, sake
- orange blossom, honey
- pistachio, orange, bergamot
Though I think we were all interested in the same ones. Thank you to Nancy though because she particularly likes salted caramel, so that helped in the choosing of who eats which one (that’s the biggest dilemma). Though we kinda tried to split LOL.
I can’t even remember who tried which. But Lisa, Kelly, Nana and I think the orange blossom was the best one. It’s like biting into flowers!!! Okay, let me redo that. It didn’t sound as appetizing. Um… it’s just such a light and fragrant scent, I’m not too sure how to describe it. A light floral sweetness? I think that sounds better.
The yuzu one was kind of disappointing. We were hoping for something more citrusy like the yuzu itself.
I always wondered what kind of palate you’d need to distinguish the “better” chocolate from the “okay”?
It’s a very special and meaningful day/evening/night for me and I was really glad to have these girls meet each other as they are my absolute favourites ❤
My fashionable ladies~ Even on a chill day haha. Oh and yes it was kind of chilly that day too.
Do you know where we’re walking to.. CAN YOU GUESS?!
I clearly didn’t get the memo haha.
You’ve probably guessed it by now. We went to explore the Edmonton “beach!”
Making meaningful memories~
Love-Mish
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