With Valentine's Day right aroung the corner, I wanted to make another dessert that any of you can make for your sweetheart-and enjoy snuggling under a blanket and while watching Inception! I found this recipe for Sweetheart Tarts on the Food Network website. I actually didn't plan to do these at all. I made an interesting Bluefish and Pomegranate recipe that just looked and tasted so horrible that I couldn't endure the embarrassment of posting it up here. But the Sweetheart Tarts ended up being a clever foodification of this film.
See, one of the coolest ideas in this movie is the concept of a dream within a dream. The dreamer goes to sleep, then dreams that he is sleeping and in another dream. In the movie, the dreamers risk three dream levels: A dream within a dream within a dream. This is exactly what I loved about the Sweetheart Tarts. Except this time, its the cherry, withing the jam, within the cookie!
With an ordinary sugar cookie recipe, put little circlets of the dough in a muffin tray. While they are baking in the oven, melt some jam and coat the cherry in the jam. Personally, I thought it ended up being a little too sweet, so I added grated orange rind on the top (to represent limbo perhaps? ;).
The end result was quite beautiful and yummy. It was so easy to make. I am a terrible baker, but this may be the best baked good that I have ever made. I only had one problem. The bottom of the cookies didn't like flat in the muffin tray and weren't as cuplike as I thought they would be. If this happens to you, just push it down a little and shove the cherry in there. The cherries can also be a little hard to taste, so popping a second one in is also a nice idea. I really hope people try to make this! Let me know if you do.
Those look super tasty! Where did you get your sugar cookie recipe?
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ReplyDeleteFood Network! But be sure to grate the orange on top. That's not part of the original recipe but it helps de-sweeten the jam a wee bit.
ReplyDeleteThe cookies look amazing! I'm definitely adding this recipe to my messy folder of print-out recipes. Also, the connection of the cookies to Inception was very clever :)
ReplyDeleteThose cookies look so good! It seems like you've taken advantage of being a second semester senior, baking and watching movies :) Also, I love the connection you made with Inception, bizarre but somehow true. You should post some of the recipes that you make on your blog so everybody else can bake!
ReplyDeleteThanks to both Lewis and Sheela!
ReplyDelete@ Sheela: Yes I must admit, the primary reason I chose this for my blog topic was so that I could have an educational reason to watch my favorite movies and eat yummy food. Trust me-it's the best homework EVER.
And if you click on the red "Sweetheart Tarts" link in the blog post, it will take you directly to the recipe. Enjoy and let me know how it goes!