But It Hurts So Good: The high-intensity Chocolate Suicide Cake concocted by the Phoenix Bakery and Coffee House in Galveston [2228 Ships Mechanic, (409)763-4611] poses a triple-layered threat of death by chocolate. Velvety layers of moist, dark chocolate cake alternate with devilish stripes of bittersweet chocolate mousse and semisweet chocolate ganache, laced with thin ruby streaks of strawberry marmalade. As if that weren’t enough to set chocoholics to swooning, the whole is lavishly iced with more dark chocolate, trimmed with frothy curls of shaved white chocolate and sprinkled with plump, fresh raspberries. Great towering wedges sell for $4.50 each, or, what the heck, buy the whole darn cake for $40. You know you want it.
This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 6, 1999.