Transfer a slice onto each of two dessert plates (see note).

To serve, slice each cake into six pieces and place on a dessert plate.

There was a dish of fruit, but the three dessert plates were untouched.

Arrange a choux on each of 6 individual dessert plates.

The waiter arrived to clean off the dessert plates, and with him came coffee.

That day at his house the dessert plates were lovely, a single dark blue flower on a pale yellow ground.

He pushed his dessert plate aside and took a sip of coffee.

He shuffled across the room and placed one on a dessert plate for me.

One clue arrived written in icing on a dessert plate.

We left soon after the dessert plates were cleared away.