This is Heidi and I found some fun dessert recipes. 1 – Mini Flag Cake Squares ◾Blueberry illustration for easy flag cake recipe Buy a pound cake, or two for a crowd ◾Slice thickly – I’d say at least 1 ½ inches per slice. ◾Ice each slice generously with frosting, which you can make by mixing 2/3 stick of butter (1/3 cup if you prefer) with 3 cups of confectioners (icing) sugar. Once it’s smooth and soft, add 1 ½ tsp good vanilla and t tsp milk , or you can buy in a pot from the supermarket ◾Now cut each slice into quarters or sixths, depending on the size of your pound cake, to make dinky little squares ◾Lay the squares on a platter in a rectangle shape – this is the flag bit ◾Top the top left hand squares with little piles of blueberries, and the rest of the squares with single raspberries and strawberries or with coconut or white chocolate shavings to make the stripes of the flag Bunting for Labor Day Recipes 2 – Red white and blue ice cream sundae Ice Cream Sundae for Labor Day RecipeNothing says summer like an ice cream sundae. I’d suggest strawberry and vanilla with blueberry sauce – though technically this would be a pink white a blue sundae it’s so delicious that I think we’ll get away with it. Cherry and white chocolate ice cream with blueberry sauce would be good too, now I think about it. Consider providing whipped cream – from a can has its own charm too – and little dishes of red white and blue M&Ms, sprinkles, white chocolate shavings and maraschino cherries for people to get creative with. Blueberry sauce This recipe owes more than a little to Ina Garten whose book introduced me to the idea of using jam rather than sugar to sweeten and thicken a fruit sauce. Ingredients 1 cup of blueberries 1 tbsp seedless strawberry jam 1 tsp balsamic vinegar ◾Blend the jam, blueberries and sugar until smooth ◾Tip into a saucepan and heat in for a few minutes until runny enough to pour ◾Add the balsamic vinegar to turn the sauce a deeper blue and to bring out the sweetness of the blueberries If you can make that, you can certainly make this: More Sundaes and Sauces Bunting for Labor Day Recipes 3 – Raspberry and Blackberry Tart Ingredients Ilustrated pile of raspberries for raspberry tart 1 sheet of defrosted puff pastry 1 cup of ricotta cheese (or thereabouts) 2 tbsp sugar (vanilla sugar if you have any) 1 tsp good vanilla essence (if you don’t have vanilla sugar) 1 pint of raspberries ½ pint of blackberries Vanilla ice cream and confectioner’s sugar (icing sugar) to serve ◾Lay the pastry sheet onto some parchment and roll out to get rid of the creases. Score a border around the edge and prick the pastry in the middle with a fork. ◾Mix the ricotta with 1 tbsp of sugar (and the vanilla if using) then spread it over the pastry inside the border. ◾Toss half of the fruit with 1tbsp sugar and arrange on top of the ricotta mixture (if the blackberries are especially sharp you might want to add more sugar) ◾Put the tart onto a tray and into a pre-heated oven and let it cook for 20 – 25 minutes. If your oven is a bit old and unreliable, like mine, turn the tart around half way through cooking in case one bit of oven is hotter than another and the tart cooks unevenly (i.e. one part raw, one part ash, as in my oven). ◾Once cooked, top with the rest of the berries and dust with icing sugar. Serve with vanilla ice cream
Posted on: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 22:58:47 +0000
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