Sweets News

Warm, molten-centered chocolate souffle cake is a popular dessert item at fine New York restaurants. However, one's craving for this dessert may be so intense as to make sitting through dinner unbearable! Fortunately, immediate gratification is now available in the form of individual, sugar-powdered chocolate souffles at Cafe Zaiya. Made to order, the luscious little cakes boast authentically gooey insides. And they're only $1.50!

Café Zaiya: 18 E. 41st St. (212) 779-0600.

(In more unsettling news, my childhood idol, the Cookie Monster, is going on a diet.)