How to Use profiterole in a Sentence

profiterole

noun
  • The profiteroles were big and fat with vanilla ice cream and poured dark chocolate sauce.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The wet, chewy dough of profiteroles and the hard, dense carrot cake took the shine off the dessert menu.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 6 June 2019
  • The chef became famous for making foie gras profiteroles for his dessert course.
    — Anna Haines, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
  • There are options like profiteroles, chocolate mousse and sticky toffee pudding for dessert.
    — Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The available desserts on the prix fixe menu are profiteroles, a French puff pastry, and chocolate mousse.
    — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Consider filling in the gaps with some light profiteroles, robed in dark chocolate sauce at the table.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • For dessert try the perfect profiteroles, the creamiest crème brûlée or the applause-stealing crêpes Suzette.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
  • Head to this Lakeview restaurant for their profiteroles with sour cherry, sassafrass and shiso flavors.
    — Shelbie Lynn Bostedt, RedEye Chicago, 17 Nov. 2017
  • For dessert, enjoy authentic crepes, or my favorite, profiteroles, which are cream puffs with ice cream inside and chocolate sauce on top.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Dessert was crème brûlée, passion fruit mousse and a profiterole topped with chocolate sauce.
    — Elizabeth Field, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2017
  • For dessert, choose from Valrhona chocolate souffle, profiteroles or ricotta beignets.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
  • While her stack of profiteroles is a little wonky, both judges love her white-chocolate and coconut fillings as well as the variety with dark chocolate and caramel inside.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Split profiteroles and pipe blackberry filling on bottom halves, dividing evenly.
    — Marian Cooper Cairns, Country Living, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Shoemaker's menu includes French onion soup; black truffle winter gnocchi; salmon and porcini ragu; and profiteroles.
    — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Desserts included Baked Alaska and Turkish-style profiteroles.
    — Julie Jordan, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
  • Desserts include pecan carrot cake, caramel profiteroles, chocolate marquise cake, bread pudding, pineapple fritters and cupcakes, along with chocolate eggs.
    — Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Other shots from the Rhode brand's social media account showed that guests could sample on giant platters of fries, a tower of profiteroles and even jello!
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The profiteroles, drizzled with warm, rich, dark chocolate, are like little elegant ice cream sandwiches freckled with powdered sugar.
    — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Diners will be able to sample hearty dishes like pork coppa with sauerkraut and finish the meal with profiteroles with soft-serve in flavors like honeycomb and pistachio.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Eternal favorites like profiteroles, tiramisu and scoops of gelati are on the menu but the flourless chocolate cake is a great option for those who have room for dessert and don’t want to leave the table overly full.
    — Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
  • On the 40th floor, the Bulgari Dolci pastry shop serves up profiteroles and almond-and-chocolate caprese cake.
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco Gage Daughdrill Gisela Williams Laura Bannister Devorah Lev-Tov Caitie Kelly, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This us rich food but please have a dessert at Comodo, either the profiteroles with chocolate topping or the raspberry sorbet dashed with ruby Port.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • The same sense of enterprise came through in desserts that ranged from sophisticated cheesecake with raspberry and sage to playful profiteroles with roasted banana caramel.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Housemade desserts were subtle instead of sugary, including tiramisu ($10) and airy, creamy profiteroles ($12).
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The pastry session delves into the world of French patisserie, creating delights such as profiteroles, chocolate tarts and artisanal cookies.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Still, the film vividly evokes the drama of a fine meal, and the epic journey from aspic to profiteroles that Tower helped elevate to the level of an artistic experience.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Her favorite memory from shooting that film remains going to a restaurant in Barcelona with Symoné, 39, for a daily profiterole.
    — Daniela Avila, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • Desserts are wonderful old favorites, including plump profiteroles with a deep dark chocolate; succulent poached poire belle Hélène; and a hot apple tart that was crisp and sweet and had the real taste of good apples.
    — John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Try the ice cream profiteroles — a collaboration at The Chocolate, with pate choux puff filled with Cloud Ninth vanilla ice cream and drizzled with passion fruit sauce.
    — Heather L. King, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • All reliably lean on French dessert classics—arguably the best part of any bistro meal—and include perfectly light crêpes suzette, profiteroles, crème caramel made with Muscat, and a few Francophile-friendly cheese plates.
    — Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024

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