Save Room for Dessert?

You know when it's about to happen.

There you are sitting in a restaurant and you have just finished enjoying a nice dinner. Your dishes have been cleared and now you are simply engaging in relevant chit chat. Suddenly the server starts to walk up to your table, you make eye contact and then it happens. The question is popped:

"So, (they say casually) did you all save any room for dessert? (now burning a hole in your head demanding you spend another $7 on dessert you don't want or need)"

Obviously, I didn't save any room for dessert. It's not my birthday, I'm not here to spend ridiculous amounts of money for a piece of cake that has been sitting in the fridge for a week.

There are only two places you say "yes" to dessert at:

1. Cheesecake (because they will boo you if you don't)
2. Seasons 52 (because they are small and bite size delicious)

I said yes on Thursday night - but not at Cheesecake or Season's.

My wife was leaving work and a girl she worked with just happen to have a variety of desserts from a small Italian restaurant in St. Petersburg, FL. We don't know where these desserts came from, we don't know what this girl was doing with them. We only know my wife was thinking of me and brought one home.

It was delivered to me in a plain brown box with Cannoli Cake written on top in cursive writing. My eyes widened with excitement as I opened. Let me first say this - we all know cannolis are good. They are little mini tortillas stuffed with cream and chocolate chips. But - can you imagine an entire cake made out of this magical substance?

First bite - amazing. Second bite - amazing. Entire cake - amazing.

The bottom section of this two layer cake was chocolate which I avoided. I stuck to the top layer which was basically vanilla cake smothered in cannoli cream, sprinkled with chocolate chips with a delicate cannoli on top.

This was a complete dessert winner - life altering, ground breaking amazingness.

The sweet sad irony here is that this is probably one of those rare desserts that I would order in a restaurant when the server pops the questions. As an eating society we are doomed to be surrounded by hundreds of restaurants with all mediocre desserts. Now on Thursday night I find a diamond in the rust and I have no idea where it came from.

I can't recommend anything to you here except for to go find restaurants that have a giant piece of Cannoli Cake on their menu and then save room for dessert.

Stay tuned to the last 30 seconds of the video to watch an unsolicited cat fight.