Don't you call me a tartlette...

Tarts ready for baking!, originally uploaded by mo mckinley.

We bought four 5in tart pans for the day's project with full knowledge this meant more tarts in our future. As we started to press the dough in the pans we thought for sure we would have some left over but as we neared the end we realized that we might actually be running a little low. Our last tart was a bit thinner than the others but after baking, it turned out to be the best one. More room for pastry cream and figs!

Making the ice cream and pastry cream left us with a good number of egg whites just hangin around. (Can you picture egg whites 'hangin around'? Yuck.) So we attempted to make meringue kisses. These were a colossal failure. After I sampled about 5 of them to rule them out as at all edible... we surrendered to the confectionary gods and tossed 'em. You know, if the sugar sticks to your teeth so hard that your mouth is cemented shut... this is not a good thing.