Hi all! Over the coming weeks I’ll show you recipes for these, but right now, I would just like to show you pictures from a private wine/dessert reception that I made the desserts for this past weekend.
One of the goodies I made were ooey, gooey, chocolately Brigadeiros, a Brazillian candy which I took the liberty of making more chocolaty and less sweet as well as adding some vanilla to.
These are some of the tins that I used in making three kinds of tartlets…
The tartlets were Peas in a Pod, where I made a fresh blueberry pie filling and put a couple of berries on each of the tartlet shells,
Scheherazade, which I adapted from Flo Braker’s Sweet Miniatures, a tartlet with candied craisins (sorry Flo; fresh cranberries were not available; besides, I actually liked the craisins 🙂 and pomegranate seeds,
and Poirettes, also adapted from Sweet Miniatures, a tartlet with tons of flavor going on – pear, almond, rum (just a teeny bit), vanilla, lemon, apricot, and chocolate! It came together beautifully…
Pardon the funky picture; I can’t get the blog to accept the rotated picture. The Poirettes are in the middle with Cinnamon Twists (made out of a cottage cheese pastry dough!) surrounding them.
In addition to the tartlets, I made several cookies. Drei Augen, also adapted from guess where? 🙂 yep, Sweet Miniatures, are an almond, shortbread german cookie (the name translates to three eyes) with a raspberry jam filling (sorry again Flo, I’m not a currant person so didn’t think I’d like currant jam in them. I’ll try it sometime when I’m not making them for a reception). I made four desserts for the reception from her book ’cause it was so perfect for this kind of event. However, beware there are a few errors in the book 😦 Still a wonderful book tho!
The Drei Augen are the cookies around the outside. In the middle are TCT bites, a triple chocolate torte made into bite-sized cakes. Mmmmmm good! 🙂
Cream Cheese Thumbprint cookies I adapted from a recipe that I got from my aunt many, many years ago. I’ve always loved these cookies, but have never done them as thumbprints before. I wanted to add some color to them tho so voila!
Last of the cookies were a plain shortbread cookie, which I liked so much when I made these from thekeenancookbook.com, that I decided to use them here. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a picture of them tho 😦 I also forgot to take a picture of the salted, burnt caramel flavored chocolate coins tho I put some in the freezer so I’ll still post these later. I originally got the recipe from foodwishes.blogspot.com video recipes.
And the little boy showing off the cheesecake cookies with his hand? My youngest munchkin…
How did you figure out the wine pairings? Does red go with dark chocolate, and white with the rest?
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lol 🙂 I left the wines up to Peter 🙂
what a lovely affair! and all those mini tart shells love it!
thank you!
Your style is so unique compared to other folks I have read stuff
from. Thank you for posting when you’ve got the opportunity, Guess I’ll just bookmark this page.