Chocolate-Dipped Profiteroles

PROFITEROLES are small dessert cream puffs. They are classically filled with vanilla pastry cream and stacked in a pyramid-shaped mound. A chocolate sauce is poured over the pyramid, making an attractive display.

The presentation I use is simpler and easier to serve. Instead of making a pyramid and then covering it with sauce, I dip each profiterole into a thick chocolate sauce and arrange them on a round platter so that each can be picked up easily.

The profiteroles can be