An Ode To A Coffee Cake, Costa Coffee

Relax! There isn't going to be any ode. :-) There wouldn't have been any visit to Costa Coffee if it weren't for the fact that for a good-sized mall, High Street Phoenix doesn't boast of too many places that cater to the proverbial Indian 'sweet tooth'. Sure, there is Haagen Daaz and Mad Over Donuts and Gelato. There is one shop that sells Indian sweets and Food Hall has the same. But that's about it. If you are looking for cakes, it is either Costa or the newly opened Starbucks, which happened to be overflowing with people when we walked there. To be fair, I like the Costa outlet - especially the seating arrangement for four at the back. So no grief there.

We ordered a caramel flavored Classic Cooler and then my eyes fell on a beauty labeled as 'Mocha Italia Coffee Cake'. It was love at first sight :-) God bless the guy who took our order because he asked whether we would like to have it with vanilla ice-cream. Why not? To hell with the calories, clogged arteries and triple bypass. I am going to have my cake and eat it too.

Mocha Italia Coffee Cake

So it was served with the sticky chocolaty sauce and a dollop of pearly white vanilla ice-cream. And it tasted great! Whosoever said that "Life Is Beautiful" got it bang on target. Except that they should have tacked on the words "With Costa's Mocha Italia Coffee Cake' in the end. :-)