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The fount of delight

The latest entrant in the food scene is the sinful chocolate fountain. Dig in

YUMMY! A chocolate fountain for the sweet-toothed Photo: K. Gajendran

At first glance, it looks like a three-tier chocolate wedding cake, on closer inspection, you realise that it's actually a three-tiered fountain with decadent chocolate cascading down. Chocolate fountains — the latest rage in the country are essentially fountains of molten chocolate in which you can dip little pieces of cake, cookies, marshmallows, jujubes or fruits like strawberries and pineapple.

The concept is similar to that of a fondue but you get bamboo skewers instead of a fondue fork with your little tidbits on it. The chocolate in the fountains varies in taste and quality.

While a few places use milk chocolate, others use a combination of two types of chocolate to get a richer, thicker and more luscious sheet of chocolate. There's a small price you have to pay to try this novel treat.

The cake, cookie and marshmallow pieces cost Rs. 10 per dip, the strawberries cost Rs. 20 and the chocolate cups that you can fill with the warm liquid chocolate cost Rs. 25.

There are a few ground rules as well. You cannot re-dip your piece. Take your morsel and hold it under the flowing chocolate or dip into the pool as much as you want, but don't even think of re-dipping once you have taken a bite off it.

The chocolates fountains exist at Hyderabad Central, Prasads IMAX, Eat Street and at PVR cinema.

Prakash Murthy, Director of Chocolate Hut and one of the first people to bring it to the city says, "People love it because it's something new and they can choose from variety of foods to dip into the warm chocolate.

Sales from the chocolate fountain vary from Rs. 3000 on weekdays to about Rs. 7000 on the weekends.

A lot of money considering it's just a little dip we're talking about!

RENUKA VIJAY KUMAR

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