Come Sail with Me on a Pina Colada Sailboat

Hello Dear Friends ~ Happy Tea Time Tuesday!

First and foremost, let me take a moment to express my deepest and heartfelt thanks for the outpouring of love and support generated by my Pink Saturday Brain Tumor Awareness Cupcake. It felt so good to release that post.

I also have to say that it has been such a joy exploring the baking and especially the tea blogging community. The women and blogs I have happened upon are just amazing and so full of beauty and wonderful delights. I invite you to check out many of their blogs as they can be found in my blogroll. I have so many to add and plan to update it this holiday weekend.

Ok...now, let's have some TEA!!

What are you drinking today? I am excited to have bought some new tea from a local Minnesota Tea Sommelier, Julia Matson, who is the owner of Bingley's Teas. I love to support women and small business and this is even better because it is a woman with a small TEA business!! To visit her website, click HERE.

The tea is from her popular Jane Austen Series and when I saw the name I just HAD to buy it...

Compassion for Mrs. Bennet's Nerves

From the label....

At last there is compassion for what poor Mrs. Bennet suffers with her nerves!

A tisane of chamomile, peppermint, passion flower, rosehips, and lavender, sooth the most agitated of moments in a delicious cup. We recommend a touch of honey for added bliss.

Ummm ya..I will take a GALLON!

I was recently inspired by this quote...

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." ~ Jimmy Dean.

To make these....

Pina Colada Sailboats!

I remembered seeing these dainty bites on the Tea Time Magazine website and bookmarked them for a future rainy day.

Well, Friday was rainy.

You can find the full original recipe and instructions by clicking on the Tea Time link above but I chose to give these a FAST and FANCY flair.

Pina Colada Sailboats ~ Fast and Fancy

Refrigerated Pie Crusts

2 cups Vanilla Pudding (Instant pudding or I bought the pudding in a cup snack packs to use the extras for school lunches - I also used the low sugar 60 calorie/serving pudding and it tasted great)

Toasted Coconut ~ I didn't measure but used about 1/2 cup

Crushed Pineapple ~ again I used a small can, about 1/2 to a full cup

**I also added 2 Tablespoons Coconut Curd but I am pretty sure not many people have this just lying around...you can certainly omit this or use a touch of coconut extract.

I rolled out the pie crusts and cut with scalloped round cutter and poked holes in the bottom and placed on parchment paper lined baking sheet.

Then I cut right angle triangles as you see, from the pie crusts and placed those on parchment lined baking sheet.

I then baked at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes or until edges were lightly browned

While those were toasting up, I placed the vanilla pudding, toasted sweetened coconut, crushed pineapple and coconut curd into a mixing bowl and whipped together. To be honest, I kept tasting a bit here and there and adding a pinch of this or that to get the taste to my liking.

It took all of about 2 minutes.

Once the pie crust boat bottoms and sails were done I let them cool.

Once cool I used an ice cream scoop and placed a scoop of the pina coloda mixture on to the sail boat bottom, adorned with the sail and added a lovely flower!

VIOLA ~ so fast...so fancy...so tasty....

FYI: If not serving immediately, keep in the refrigerator so the pudding does not get warm and soft, as your sailboats will get droopy. Another hint is to firm up the pudding by making it according to the "pie filling" directions.

Another fast and fancy way to serve these would be to use chocolate mousse.