dessert review: coffee bean and tea leaf

desserts have always had an appeal for me, ever since i grew out of my candy bar/chewy choco chip cookie phase. time was, i was in the habit of having two slices of cake a day -- with the inevitable expansion of the waistline that's been so difficult to remedy (laziness and all). well, when i was doing the indoor wall climbing bit, that was a step in the right direction -- reversed by the magical musically-disappearing kidney stone (but that's a tale for another day).

back to dessert. whenever i try a coffee place, i inevitably have an order of dessert tacked on to the almost invariable cafe mocha something or other. suffice to say that i'm partial to starbucks' interpretation of that particular variant...

...but back to coffee bean and tea leaf (mighty distracted am i today).

in times past, i have been stung by the rather offputting cafe mocha interpretation of the bean. and the tiramisu sucked big time. and something that had raspberry and sponge cake sucked even bigger time than the other: imagine, if you will, raspberry in white sand and that's the textural extravaganza that was that dessert.

and now, a reprieve. on the coffee front. ice blended black forest mocha. it was decent. and the white chocolate raspberry cheesecake, quite good, and surprisingly, given my other strikeouts.

so there. i can at least recommend this particular dessert from coffee bean and tea leaf. give it a try.