Strawberry Shortcake is a punk!

I am a fan of fruit in desserts, well in desserts, on desserts, around desserts whatever! I needed something of the food persuasion to take to a party the weekend after I basically catered the desserts at my sister-in law's wedding reception and so was in no mood to spend a lot of time on anything. I looked threw the things I had leftover from said catering adventure in order to figure out what would be easy yet impressive. What I came up with was basically a pseudo fruit tart. It was very tasty and impressive but unfortunately it did not travel well at ALL! When we got the fruit tarts to the party the whole batch looked like a big mess of strawberry goo and soggy cookies. I have still decided to include this recipe here because before they went into my car these tarts were pretty and tasted wonderful so I still consider them a success, just make sure you use this recipe only if your dessert does not need to go any further than the next room or two.


Ingredients

One bag of sugar cookie mix
One can of strawberry pie filling (or any other kind you might like)
A few fresh strawberries or any other fresh fruit might make a good garnish
Other ingredients required by the instructions on cookie mix (eggs and water is all I believe was needed)

-The sugar cookie mix has two sets of instructions, you'll need to follow the drop cookie instructions. Mix according to directions and place spoonfuls of dough onto cookie sheet spaced far apart. Now do not leave them in ball form, you'll want to flatten them a bit but no too much.

Once the cookies have baked make an indent in them before they cool. this will create a crevice to hold the pie filling. That leads to the next step, after the cookies have cooled spoon the pie filling onto the cookie utilizing the dent you made in the middle (redundant I know).

I added a few sliced strawberries to the top for decoration, I don't have a picture of that unfortunately since we were running late. So it really is a simple dessert but you can make it your own. It just goes to show that with a good imagination and some random stuff in a cabinet you can come up with great desserts, just be careful if you have to travel!