Boston - January 23, 2007

Spare Some Change

Trani Pastry Shop Opens

Your New Year’s resolutions: lose ten pounds, get organized, drink more water.

So very unoriginal, so setting you up for failure.

How about switching to one that you might actually pull off? Namely, eat more ice cream.

Embrace the change with a trip to Trani. Tucked away on Salem Street in the North End, the cozy little dessert cafe celebrates ice cream like you’ve never seen it.

Father and son owners Anthony and Anthony Feola shoot the frozen stuff into everything — brownies, carrot cake, donuts — with their patented invention, the N.Ject. Consider yourself the cupcake queen? Fill ’er up with a chocolate Bust-Out. Order a Shoo-In and see how vanilla twists an apple turnover. (Who doesn’t love ice cream in everything?)

You probably won’t lose ten pounds, but you will achieve your best resolution to date.

Enjoy life more.

Trani, 111 Salem Street (617-624-0222 or tranibrand.com).