A Sundae Worth Every Sinfully Wonderful Bite

The love affair with ice cream starts in childhood. Did your first drippy chocolate cone come ironically after a visit to the dentist? Or did you check out of church and devour a banana split at the soda fountain instead?

Get that wonderful guilty feeling again with a hot fudge sundae worth every bite of sin. At Ghirardelli Chocolate Shop and Soda Fountain in South Coast Plaza, they start with generous scoops of Dreyer’s ice cream piled into a frosted schooner. The cool stuff is then drenched with a mudslide of hot fudge sauce made from Ghirardelli chocolate bars, and crowned with whipped cream, nuts and a cherry.

The menu says, “It’s as thick as any San Francisco fog”--so you’re guaranteed to get completely lost in it.

Hot fudge sundae--one scoop each rocky road and mint chocolate chip ice cream with a quarter-cup of hot fudge sauce--660 calories/39 grams of fat. $5.95 at Ghirardelli Chocolate Shop and Soda Fountain in South Coast Plaza, 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa. (714) 444-1570.

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