The Perfect Dessert

This post is coming a few weeks after I promised it - I have no excuse for myself. This assignment comes from Katie, who asked me to describe the perfect dessert. I'm honestly not too happy with what I came up with, but I didn't want this blog to languish un-updated forever. As always, feedback is greatly appreciated in the comments or emailed to needsmoreglitter@gmail.com!

How to make the perfect dessert

You will taste many amazing desserts in your life; it is inevitable that one of them will be the best. But will you know it when it's in front of you? Will you ever be able to pinpoint which confection was better than the others? If you judge by taste, perfection is impossible to know with any certainty. But taste is not all that matters. The foods you remember are not necessarily the ones that shook up your taste buds, but those you had to earn. The cakes and pies that caused some drama, some pain - those are what you'll still be talking about a year later. The cookies that placated your angry neighbor. The cheesecake you made after driving through an ice storm at 1am to buy more cream cheese. The pie filling recipe that went horribly wrong, but miraculously turned out delicious anyway.

This kind of perfection is impossible to predict or obtain intentionally. However, there are ways to manipulate the circumstances. Following is a recipe guaranteed to be dramatic to prepare and heavenly to eat. Just make sure you're not making it alone - it's too much excitement for one person.

Bananes flambées

Step one: Soak some raisins in dark rum for an hour. Only, you won't want to wait an hour to start cooking, so instead microwave the raisins + rum for a few seconds. You're not sure if this actually makes a difference, but it seems like it might.

Step two: Slice two or three bananas in half lengthwise and cook them in generous amounts of butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar until soft. Turn off the heat.

Step three: Pour rum + raisins over the bananas.

Step four: Ignite the rum. If you're using matches instead of a lighter, you'll be tempted to just toss the lit match into the pan, since you don't want to burn your fingers off. This won't work - risk your fingers! It will be worth it, I promise.

Step five: Watch the pretty fire until it goes out.

Step six: Serve with copious amounts of whipped cream - homemade or Reddi-whip.

Post of Shame

The entire point of starting this blog was so that I would actually, you know, do some writing. I have many excuses for not posting anything in over two months, but that is no excuse! I have a few assignments in the early stages, and I will finish at least one of them by the end of this week.

If you like assignments as much as I do, I highly recommend you check out Learning To Love You More. It is a site created by two artists - they made assignments, and readers completed them and submitted reports. The results are sometimes hilarious or heart-breaking. Unfortunately, they are no longer accepting submissions. But I am thinking of completing some of their assignments and posting them here. What do you think?