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. |