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Blueberry-banana tarts with toasted almonds, or “How learned to stop worrying and learn to love the overripe banana no one wants to eat by using it in a tasty dessert in 15 minutes flat.”

Ingredients (per 2 tarts):

• A small handful of blueberries
• 1 overripe banana
• Almonds to taste
• A few sheets of phyllo dough

To make:

• Preheat oven to 350 and haphazardly fold some aluminum foil into cup-like shapes.
• Mash that banana in a bowl, with a dash of milk if it’s not overripe enough to be mushy. Mix in blueberries.
• Cut dough into two squares, spritz with some cooking spray drape squares over cups. Place squares onto a baking sheet, spray some more cooking spray on that thing. Pour banana-blueberry mixture into cups, sprinkle with almonds.
• Bake those suckers for maybe 10 minutes, until the pastry has turned golden brownish. 

The mushy banana gives the illusion of filling that actually took some kind of effort or skill to make, and the blueberries expand and heat up in the oven. I sprinkled mine with cinnamon, you can use sugar or a splash of vanilla extract or really anything you’d like. Eat with a fork, or be bold and use your hands.

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