Slice of Heaven

Best Use of Shot Glasses Ever!

My brother just celebrated his birthday and requested a different type of dessert. Instead of the typical cake, he wanted some of those mini-desserts that are being served now at restaurants. Conveniently, he has quite a collection of shot glasses from Hard Rock Cafes from all over the country!
I found after searching that there are not really special recipes for this, you just take your favorite trifle or layer type recipe and make everything smaller. I made tiramisu: ladyfingers chopped into tiny bits, layered with espresso, the mascarpone cheese mixture and topped with shaved bittersweet chocolate. YUM!

Andy's favorite dessert is cheesecake, so these little desserts packed all of the flavor and a fraction of the calories! For the cheesecake shots I layered graham cracker crumbs, a white chocolate cheesecake filling (no-bake), homemade raspberry sauce and topped it with a fresh raspberry. Yum for him (I'm not so big on cheesecake, so I didn't even taste this one!)

The pumpkin gingerbread shots were adapted from a Paula Deen recipe for Pumpkin Gingerbread trifle. This was layered gingersnap cookie crumbs, a pumpkin mousse, and gingerbread cut into tiny cubes. It was topped off with chocolate shavings also.

The last one was very interesting. The basic recipe came from Big Red Kitchen for apple salad. Essentially this is vanilla pudding, cool whip and granny smith apples. I cut up the apples teeny tiny for the shot glasses. This was layered with graham cracker crumbs, caramel sauce and snickers candy bars cut into tiny pieces. This one was second to the tiramisu in my book!

This ended up being a REALLY fun dessert to make and create. Everyone loved it and we all got to have a couple and not feel horrible about a horrible amount of calories.