Review: Chili's White Chocolate Molten

I've noticed a movement in the restaurant industry from offering only chocolate items to complementing them with the white chocolate counterpart. For years normal chocolate had been the only choice for choco-holics at restaurants. The Wendy's fast food chain is an example. My wife thought it was blasphemous when Wendy's started offering the white Frosty, even though "vanilla", the Frosty still tastes like creamy white chocolate.

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We have another example of this with Chili's new White Chocolate Molten Cake. The original Chocolate Molten Cake was outstanding which prompted my wife and I to share a White Chocolate. This dessert is very sweet, bordering on too-rich. But the raspberry sauce 'tease' does for this dessert that the caramel sauce did for the original Chocolate Molten: it's great. The cake that we got was a little dry around the edges, indicating to me that it had been sitting out for a few hours. Regardless, the presentation is awesome (it's modeled like a little volcano).

Overall, I would give this dessert a try. It went for $5.69. I think a $4.99 price point would see it sell a lot more.

RATING: ***1/2