1.   Another time surround the warm cake with a pool of raspberry sauce or melted vanilla ice cream.

2.   At Citarella restaurant in New York, instead of those trendy, oozy chocolate cakes, warm vanilla cakes are a top draw.

3.   Brush on the warm cake in several coatings, sprinkling granulated sugar over the cake between each coating.

4.   But the moment a juicy fruit mash soaks into warm cake and cold whipped cream starts to melt, a plain-jane biscuit becomes the stuff of memories.

5.   Desserts are warm Manjari chocolate cake with cardamom ice cream, or a rich saffron rice pudding.

6.   Desserts include one dull character, an unexceptional warm chocolate cake, with a molten center and a little scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.

7.   Desserts are equally fulfilling and generous, especially the Grand Marnier souffle served in a beautiful pewter mold and the warm flourless chocolate cake.

8.   Do not deny yourself the warm chocolate cake with a beret of coffee meringue on top, or a bottle or two from the formidable wine list.

9.   Drizzle over warm cake.

10.   I felt sorry for the lighter-than-air warm almond cake, almost a horizontal souffle, served with muscat-raisin ice cream.