I didn't have many expectations about this chocolate fondant from Liddl, this fondant coming straight from one of those large freezers the size of a giant, where cardboard boxes with retouched images are stacked, each one more attractive than the other. Prints which, I thought, were unlikely to have the slightest proximity to the reality of the dishes in question. A blandness that even I, a very poor cook, didn't question.

However, it turns out that Liddl, to reward its most loyal customers, offered them a discount which I obviously couldn't resist, even though I had sworn to drastically reduce my weekly quantity of processed sugar.

That's how it was on a Sunday afternoon, where idleness and emotional distress had surreptitiously invited themselves into my imagination, I couldn't resist the temptation to stuff the said "soft" (quotation marks being required here) chocolate into the microwave oven.

And what was my surprise to discover, less than two minutes later, that a smell had already invaded my living room, gradually reaching the bedroom inside where I was leafing through a magazine while waiting for that divine moment apart from this day filled with solitude.

Without further ado, I hastily collected the cake from the microwave oven, understanding that the flowing heart was about to turn into coal.

I then placed the industrial cake on a small beige plate, accompanied by its regular spoon. The ochre brown of the pre-cooked dough stood out deliciously against the beige color of the plate. And the cracks in it even gave it an air of a savannah where the arid lands conceal a precious treasure... And this treasure, I quickly discovered under my burning teeth. From the first bite, this dark chocolate heart, against all odds, had the effect on me of a wild lava whose harshness hit against the tongue like a wild animal with its soft, warm coat !