What’s the best time to eat cake when you're on a diet?
Dessert is a meal best served hot, cold — and in a pinch, even stale. The dessert course is wonderfully flexible — even a week-old store-bought coffee cake hits the spot. And while the health-conscious will often skip a sweet treat after dinner, there are many people for whom the very idea of not having a small wedge of pie or a chocolate chip cookie is cruel and unusual punishment.
