Oh, be still my beating heart. Berries. Raspberries. *Swoon.* I love raspberries so hard, it's not even funny. If I could only eat one kind of fruit for ever and ever, I would pick raspberries. Hands down, no competition (assuming I could get fresh raspberries year round).
When I was a kid, there was a semi-abandoned lot near our house. (At least, I thought it was abandoned, but it might just have had a lot of trees on it. We lived in West Virginia at the time, and everything was covered in trees and creepers). On this lot, there was the biggest, most magnificent raspberry bush you have ever seen (although, I was 8, so it's possible my memory is skewed). In the summer, our babysitter would take my brother and I over to the raspberry bush and pick buckets of raspberries so that we could make raspberry syrup for ice cream. I would eat about half the berries before we even got home. But my brother made up for me since he was a super picky eater, and I don't think he ever ate any berries. I'm sure I had had raspberries before we started picking those berries, but that's my first real memory of being really really excited about raspberries. And, thus a raspberry fiend was born.
I suppose you want to hear about the Raspberry Almond Blondies, since that's why we're all here. Well, I have to say I wasn't too impressed, which is very sad. They're a basic brown-sugar blondie, with some almond slices mixed in, and topped with fresh raspberries and more almonds. They sound really good, don't they? And they are, I suppose. My problem with them is that the moisture from all the fresh berries leaves the top of the blondies kind of moist, and not in the good 'devil's food cake' kind of way, more in the 'ooh, I've had these in the oven for more than 15 minutes more than the recipe calls for, but I'm still not sure if they're really baked through' way. I would almost recommend that if you make these, leave the raspberries out, and just eat the Almond Blondies with the fresh raspberries on the side. (And no matter what you decide to do, make sure to get at least two extra containers of berries, and give one to me.)
Next Week: Earl Grey Tea Cookies, p. 231
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