With sleepovers came a request from my daughter for us to make Moose-y Party Dessert. The dessert was very pretty for its presentation, and then all mayhem would break loose as the sleepover guests would dive bomb into dessert. In those days, we made a big meringue shell and filled it with a chocolatey mousse-like pudding that Eva spelled as "moose". We would crumble cookies into the base of the hollowed out meringue, filled with mousse, add whipped cream, and decorate it with chocolate syrup, chocolate sprinkles, M&M's - what have you. Thinking of this memory from Eva's childhood, I switched mango for chocolate, added a little rum in a few places, and made raspberry and mango purees to replace the chocolate. Instead of cookies, a little homemade blueberry jam is tucked just under the lip of the hollowed out meringue. I modified a BA recipe for mango pudding as the starting point for making the switch from a chocolate dessert. It's a party treat, and best finished in one sitting!

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