July 4th Ideas: Stars and Stripes Tart
Warmth patriotic from your toes to the tip of your tongue? Try out this festive July 4th tart that'll get guests in the pro-America feeling ready: You use mascarpone cheese, blueberries, and strawberries to mimic the colors of the American ebb.
So get your creative cap on and start cooking. An added bonus? Get the kids enmeshed with to help decorative it.
Here's how ...

To avoid going the super-sticky route with a flag cake (like above ... shh!), try mini tarts in place of.
Start off with mini pie shells and fill them with mascarpone cheese (recipe below). Then lie them out in deteriorate form and top with the appropriate color -- blueberries for the stars and strawberries for the stripes.
Mascarpone Cheese
8 ounces mascarpone cheese 3 tablespoons powdered sugar 1/2 cup whipped creamPath mascarpone cheese and powdered sugar with a mixer until glossy. Gently fold in freshly whipped cream.
Are you making a July 4th-inspired afters this weekend?
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Procedure for one of the desserts. We made hundreds of mini tarts. My dad fell in love with the lemon cream, along with the lounge of the guests. My dad whipped up batch after batch of lemon cream. One at all times, I caught him licking the blender clean and snapped a prototype. It was priceless. After the wedding, I sent a thank you email to Dorie for her incredible recipe and sent the photo of my dad. Dorie loved it and wrote me back…my dad was not timely I shared the photo, but oh well:) A few weeks later, Dorie hosted a giveaway on her plot to giveaway a few autographed copies of her book and I won! I was thrilled. So now, I own a signed reproduction of Baking From My Home to Yours and will treasure it always. Oh, and when we got married, my dad made hundreds of mini tarts for us too.MC: What is the first dinner you ever prepared?
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