Every few months Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro unveils a new dessert menu. My buddy Jeff and I have it a tradition to go in during the first few days of the new menu and sample every dessert. Typically this results in the two of us over indulging in five desserts. While I am not the most articulate at describing foods and my experiences with them I thought it might be fun to write something up about this latest dessert filled evening. Our evening consists of warming up with a few beers or other beverages depending on our mood and a simple appetizer to get us started. When we get ready to attack the army of desserts we are sure to ask for extra forks and spoons. We like to share our experience with those around us. If you are sitting at the bar with us or simply come by and ask, “are you going to eat all of those?” we are sure to give you a taste.

Coffee Chocolate Bundt Cake
Filled with an espresso mousseline cream, drizzled with a white chocolate-coffee fondant icing and plated with chocolate sauce for good measure.
This was my favorite of the five. The cake had a rich chocolate flavor that was complimented by the bold coffee taste of the mousse.

Spice Cake & House Made Pumpkin Ice Cream
Layered with cream cheese filling and garnished with brandied sour cherries.
This fine dessert came in second on my list. This dessert has a definite holiday feeling to it. Spice cake is something I can only see myself eating between Thanksgiving and New Years. Give me this dessert in the middle of July and it falls to the bottom of my list. The wonderful cake is accompanied by intriguing pumpkin ice cream. The texture of this pumpkin treat is not what you would expect in ice cream. When the ice cream is still very cold it tends to break off in pieces. The flavor is very unique and delicious.

Vanilla Bean Cheesecake
Rich and creamy with a macadamia nut nilla wafer crust and balsamic blackberry-strawberry jam.
This surprising treat is not what you would expect when ordering cheesecake. The texture is light and fluffy and not dense like a typical cheesecake. I usually have a hard time eating an entire piece of cheesecake because of its rich flavor. However, this variation is likely to not remain on the plate for very long.

Warm Ginger Peach Bread Pudding

Studded with white chocolate, covered with butterscotch sauce & whipped cream.
Bread pudding is an acquired taste and I have never been a big fan of it. However, this dessert did not disagree with my palette. While it was not my favorite dessert many of our tasters rated it at the to of their list.

Individual Pecan Pie

Topped with house made Jack Daniels ice cream and caramel.

The highlight of this dessert was the ice cream. An intriguing flavor that one would never expect. The ice cream was delicious; I wanted to order a bowl of it by its self. The pie was not as enjoyable. It was dry and simply bland. I do have to admit that pecan pie is not on my list of favorites, so my opinion of this dessert may be biased.

Here we go at another attempt to do some blogging. I have failed to follow through many times, so we will see where this goes. Anyway, I’m just installing and setting up the software and a few plugins.