Mascarpone Pots with Strawberries

I am officially back! After taking an obligatory break from blogging, I am back on air. All this period I was away from the net and I mean literally away from blogging, it was really weird.

I had more time to do a few things I wasn’t able to do before, I can tell you this, but on the other hand I was missing all this fun following your blogs, learning your news and what is going on in your kitchens. It was like not being able to contact with friends. Because, truth to be said, even though I know you only via your photos on your blogs, I feel that you are distant friends to me. Thank you all so much for your kind comments and promise I will visit you real soon!

I just want to tell you that I am glad I am back and will be following you again and catch up with what is going on in no time.

Anyway, I was supposed to post these little pots for Mother’s Day, but I guess the computer demon had other plans for me. My Windows crushed and neither I nor my husband could fix the damage. So, just like a good higgly-girl (mothers with children will understand immediately what I mean), I called for an expert to fix the damage. Thank God my documents were all retrieved and now I am posting about these beautiful pots with mascarpone cream and strawberries. They disappeared in no time and they were superb! Very easy to make and if you don’t have mascarpone cheese, you can use cream cheese. They are very close to cheesecake, but they do not have the digestives’ crust. I will definitely make them again! Happy Belated Mother’s Day to all of you my friends!

In a bowl beat the heavy cream and the 1 tbsp caster sugar until for the heavy cream to have the texture of yogurt. Set aside.

In another bowl beat the mascarpone, the caster sugar and the rum until soft. Incorporate both batters.

In a small bowl put the milk and the 2 tbsp of rum.

Take 10 ramekins and cut the lady’s fingers in two. Baptize them in the milk/rum batter and place them on the bottom of the pots.

With a spoon add about one spoon in each ramekin. Add the strawberry marmalade and the pieces of strawberries. Put in the fridge for couple of hours so as for the ingredients to release their aromas and serve.