Sentence examples for dessert size from inspiring English sources

At first glance, the pieces look like porcelain renditions of Renaissance palaces in Florence, but each "building" is actually made up of a stack of six plates (dinner or dessert size) or bowls (cereal or soup) with a "roof" that, when turned over, becomes another usable dish.

Pour water into a bowl (around a dessert sized bowl is ideal).

When sampling the delicious Baskin Robbins ice cream as a dessert, the spoon size requires me to contort my mouth into odd positions to get the dang thing to fit — and every so often the spoon will have sharp edges that slice the inside of my cheek.

The combination of small to medium soups, starters and desserts and average size entrees ensures that no one will go away hungry.

Except that the décor was more "Dynasty," the cookies were store-bought and the size of dessert plates, and the kitchen was tucked inside a gray stone manor that rose like a cathedral.

And at the Asian bistro Tao (42 East 58th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues), the pastry chef, Judiaan Woo, has created the Giant Fortune Cookie dessert, a cookie the size of a grapefruit made of an almond pastry filled with white and dark chocolate mousse, symbolizing the yin and yang of the restaurant.

The serving size for dessert wines is about 3 fluid ounces (about 90ml).

This smaller helping, with a starter and dessert, made an ideally sized meal.

It was about as far from the old-fashioned cheesecake and ice cream sundae steakhouse dessert as the plate-size mutton chop is from its modern equivalent, a dainty riblet of baby lamb.

The platter turned out to be many full-size desserts assembled in one place.

But if you've got a sweet tooth like me, you'll want to cap the meal off with some bite-size desserts, like these mini raspberry brownies.