Wednesday, January 14, 2009

fruit cheese dome, a.k.a. Swede's Delight

Warning: the following recipe is neither healthy nor inexpensive, but it is delightfully tasty. My aunt is a fantastic cook, and this "experiment" of hers ranks high on the best-recipes-from-Aunt-Becky list. Definitely the most memorable food of the holiday season. If you like fruit and cheese, that is.


Ingredients:
round of Saga blue cheese, sliced in half horizontally
mascarpone cheese
fruit and nut -- pecan halves, dried apricots (halved), dried apples (chopped), dried cranberries, golden raisins -- mixed with caramel sauce until sticky
crackers or bread

Construction:
Spread mascarpone on half of blue cheese and add a layer of fruit; add second layer of blue cheese and cover with mascarpone. Using oiled wax paper, press fruit/nut mixture on in a dome shape and chill to set (wrapped in the wax paper).

Enjoy!

2 comments:

Annie Chase said...

Thanks for catching that! I fixed it right away.
I absolutely love world history before the reformation renaissance times. right up to feudalism.
I never got to take that class with you :( I had Mr. Willison but that was one of my favorite classes in all four years of highschool. he did a great job and there were only 4 of us in that class for the majority of the year.
how is germany?

Katie @ makingthishome.com said...

I've never heard of that second cheese. It must be the key to making it all work, because those other two ingredients sound really weird together! Wikipedia, here i come...
Katie