You’ll notice that the photos from the shop are all foggy because I went in, got cake and went out, no staying indoors too much because otherwise the cold seems a lot worse… and therefore my lens got foggy right away and I didn’t want to wait for it to dry and it’s important to always make up excuses. In any case, the chocolate cake pictured below was the richest, most delicious thing I have eaten in my life. Not too sweet, almost not sweet at all, the chocolate came out perfectly, no background avocado taste like you often have in many raw chocolate cakes, it was really perfect. The second cake does not look like much after my walk back home and a bit of sitting on the counter but, trust me, it was also amazing. There were so many flavours in it and yet they all blended so well, I really wished that I had fifteen stomachs to try every single cake there. I do hope they participate in the next Ravintolapäivä because then I’ll get some extra and maybe freeze it.

+3 – from the shop

By this point my fingertips were starting to seriously worry me, I had given up even the thought of using my camera because the battery was flat dead in two minutes in the cold and, really, this yurt and the soup could not have been better placed on my route. Okie, so in full disclosure, it was my intent to stop by there from the start and I had mapped out the places to visit beforehand but I had not taken the -25C and the humidity into account and telling it this way makes it sound a little bit more adventurous.

Oh, and there was a design ice sculpture competition going on at the same time “next door” on Senate Square. Part of the whole Helsinki World Design Capital 2012. (How exciting is that, Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 and Marseille Europe Culture Capital 2013!)

+6 – soup and ice toilet… euh… statues