Wagamama Smoked Chocolate Caramel Cake

Wagamama smoked chocolate caramel cake costs £8.30 and carries 492 kcal, the most expensive dessert on the menu by ten pence and its most maximalist construction: smoked chocolate mousse, salted caramel, crushed biscuits, chocolate fudge brownie, chocolate ganache and vanilla ice cream, stacked into one slice.

The smoke is the signature: chocolate carrying a barbecue whisper that reads more intriguing than gimmick, deepening the cocoa the way the miso deepens the caramel two lines up. Underneath it the construction piles texture on texture, mousse against brownie against biscuit crunch against ganache, with the ice cream as the cooling counterweight the density demands.

The numbers lead the page where expected: sugar at 47 g is the dessert list's highest, the calories at 492 kcal its second heaviest, the fat close behind the cheesecake. This is the chocolate order and it spends like one, dairy throughout and unbothered by the page's vegan majority.

At £8.30 published, the how much is the chocolate cake answer needs no asterisk. Against its published stablemates the brownie offers the same chocolate conviction at half the money and most of the pleasure, which is the honest comparison for solo diners; this slice is built for sharing spoons.

One serving suggestion the menu cannot print: let it sit five minutes after arriving. The mousse and ganache loosen from fridge firm toward silk, the smoke opens up, and the slice eaten patient beats the slice eaten cold by a margin regulars learn once and remember. The espresso ordered alongside fills the wait precisely.

It follows lighter mains and shorter meals, and it is the birthday order, the celebration slice, the one dessert on the page that arrives feeling like an occasion. Coffee beside it is structural, not optional.