Huge blond babas, Mont Blancs snowy with whipped cream, cakes speckled with white almonds and green pistachio nuts, hillocks of chocolate-covered pastry, brown and rich as the topsoil of the Catanian plain from which, in fact, through many a twist and turn they had come, pink ices, champagne ices, coffee ices, all parfaits, which fell apart with a squelch as the knife cleft them, melody in major of crystallized cherries, acid notes of yellow pineapple, and those cakes called "triumphs of gluttony" filled with green pistachio paste, and shameless "virgins' cakes" shaped like breasts.
beignets Dauphine, almendrek zuriz eta pistatxoek berdez zipriztinduak; txokolatezko profiterole mendi batzuk, marroi eta lodiak, Cataniako lautadako humusa bezala-izan ere, hainbat jira-biraren ondoren, han zuten jatorria-; parfait arrosak, parfait txanpaina kolorekoak, parfait grisak, krask eginez orrigabetzen zirenak labanak mozten zituenean; ginda gozagainduez eginiko litxarreriak; ananas horien tinbre mikatzak; eta "Sabelkoikeriaren garaipenak", beren pistatxo xehetuen berde hitsarekin; "Birjinen pastak", lizunkoi samarrak.