| Thursday, April 5, 2007 |
| Chocolate: The secret to a girl's heart |
by Taylor Hahn
Read closely boys, and perhaps take a few notes. The following is the Idiot's Guide to Getting a Girl to Fall in Love With You (or to Getting a Second Date at the Minimum), using the world's tastiest Wonka-approved truth: chocolate has the power to make a woman fall madly in love. Simply take her to one of these old-time classics or trendy new romantic getaways and feel the magic that ensues.
For the woman toward whom you have merely mediocre feelings, Cold Stone Creamery on Sepulveda Blvd. is your target destination. Surprise her with the Cold Stone Original "Chocolate Devotion," and for $5.29 you've got yourself a spring fling.
This creation, a delectable merger of chocolate ice cream, brownie and fudge speaks clearly yet lovingly, "Baby, I'm devoted to you for the next month and a half…or until I earn my $5.29 back in kisses." She will melt in your arms faster than that Gotta Have It-sized dessert would melt by the fire in your heart.
If your palms grow sweaty each time you hold her hand, thus allowing her to call you her boyfriend in public, throwback to the always satisfying and ever present Cheesecake Factory in Marina Del Rey, where a Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake is awaiting you, as are many more nights of clammy hand holding. This $6.50 lusciously chocolatey dessert says you love her $1.21 more than you liked the Cold Stone girl, and she is bound to gaze into your eyes tenderly for years to come.
If your heart is brimming with affection to the point of confessing your love in the form of three enchanting words and you truly wish for her to reciprocate, try writing those words on a chocolate cupcake from 3 Square Bakery, a newly opened café and bakery located at 1121 Abbot Kinney Blvd. in Venice Beach.
This ultra-voguish hotspot, recognizable only by the three painted squares on the window of the stereotypical gray cement structure, is consistently packed between its business hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. and offers a variety of baked goods and panini sandwiches, but most importantly a selection of delicious chocolate cakes.
The most fantastic of them all is the cupcake, which costs a meager two dollars. While you may think this says, "Darling, I care about you as much as I care about covered parking," it actually says, "Honey, my love don't cost a thing." This cupcake speaks such beautiful words that I in fact fell initially in love with myself for buying it, and then continued to fall head over heels for the cashier who handed it to me, partially because he was extremely attractive and partially because it was so incredibly mouth watering.
With the love potion that apparently radiates from the pores of this cupcake, she'll be so instantaneously crazy about you that on the drive back to campus, Lincoln Blvd. will be transformed into your very own, yet inconveniently busy, Lovers' Lane.
And for the girl who makes your heart pitter-patter to the rhythm of wedding bells, Comparte's Chocolatier is the ticket to the eternal romance you desire. Located in the Brentwood area at 912 South Barrington Ave., Comparte's features the young chocolate artist Jonathan Grahm, the Picasso of cholesterol, whose tiny candy masterpieces more closely resemble little chunks of heaven worthy of being preserved and displayed in the basement of the Louvre.
His unique confections are divided into colorful categories such as the Exotic Truffle Collection, Bonny Doon Vineyards Wine Truffle Collection and Jonathan's Nouveau Collection, yet all fall into the umbrella category of the When a Man Loves a Woman Collection, including creations such as Jasmine Tea, Apricot Rosemary, Vin De Glacier Ice Wine and Strawberry Balsamico.
These handcrafted tokens of love don't run quite as cheap as a vat of Cold Stone Chocolate Devotion, at $12 for a box of five truffles and $40 for an assortment of 20, but rest assured that the love you will receive will far exceed any monetary value.
Getting her to feel weak at the knees at the mere sight of you is a measly half a gallon of gas away, and while you're at what also happens to be a major sight of celebrity spotting, perhaps you will run into Kate Moss, buy her some chocolates and get her to fall in love with you too.
And lastly, when she dumps you because you didn't take her to Comparte's, Ben and Jerry's on Main Street in Santa Monica offers a $3.75 band-aid cutely called Chocolate Therapy, containing chocolate pudding swirls with the power to solve all issues of the ailing heart.
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