Day Five: Let them eat cake!

Ok. Not cake exactly, but dessert.

I had coffee for dinner, but I know that I promised you lovelies SOMETHING, so I decided to come home and make dessert.

I'm not sure what to call it. It's raspberries on a graham cracker crust with balsamic mixed in to the filling.

Let's call it a Balsamic Raspberry Tartlet. (look! i made a tartlet in a tartlet pan! what a novel concept!)

The Recipe

I mixed about three tablespoons of crushed graham crackers with 1 egg white, and poured that mixture into the pan to bake first as a crust. It baked in 12 minutes. Kind of looked like a cookie when i poked at it a little.



Then, I arranged fresh raspberries around the edge, and crushed up about 3 or 4 more tablespoons of raspberries with one packet of Splenda and put that mixture in the middle. Then, I drizzled some balsamic into the middle, about a teaspoon or so, and mixed it in a little to the crushed raspberries.



It baked for 18 minutes, and if I can say nothing else about this particular dessert, it LOOKS pretty, yeah?



ok, i know it looks kind of like it did before it baked, but trust me, it TASTED different.

The crust is sort of... chewy-ish. Not crispy. It held up well and didn't disintegrate under the filling, but I probably should have added some Splenda to it because it's definitely lacking in the flavour department. However... the raspberry filling is pretty effing delicious. Not too sweet, but the flavour of the fresh raspberries really comes through.

So, I think if i work on the crust a little, this could really be a killer dessert. I also think it's missing whipped cream, Or a little scoop of ice cream. Melting all over it... hot out of the oven omg mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Ok. Sorry. *embarassed face* I went away for a minute.

Anyhoots, I will call this dessert an "almost success," and probably make it, or some form of it again so I can tweak it and get it perfect.

Before I go, some of you have mentioned that you haven't been able to leave comments. Well, I think I got that little issue corrected. I tested it out and the comment window now pops up for me, where it didn't before, so we should be good to go.

Please! Comment! Suggest! Give me ideas!

Tomorrow we go back to our regularly scheduled programming. G'night!