Shot-through-the-heart berry tarts

Happy Valentine's Day! Or not! It doesn't matter because the following recipe can have multiple connotations.

Have you ever been shot? Me neither. This blackberry tart is the closest thing I've seen to a gunshot wound. Like I said, this tart is appropriate for any circumstance. To your date on Valentine's Day it says, "I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love." To your heart-broken self on Valentine's Day it says, "My heart got mugged and stabbed, run over by a truck and mangled by a bear." To your single self on Single Awareness Day it says, "You might as well. He's just not that into you."

I had seen the small graham cracker mini pie shells in Albertsons before, and I wondered when I would try to do something with those. They are no L'Madeleine fruit tart, which I crave all the time by the way, but they will do for a pastry. They also look fancy, even though they don't take much skill to make (just look at me.)

Ingredients
1 5.1 oz. JELL-O box of Cook n' Serve vanilla pudding
12 Keebler graham cracker tart shells
1 can of Oregon blackberry pie filling
1 10 oz. bottle Smuckers raspberry spread

Cook the pudding according to instructions. Fill the tart shells with pudding, and top with some raspberry spread. Place as many blackberries as you want on your tart. Make sure you don't take too much blackberry juice from the can or your tart may get too watery. Let pudding cool and then refrigerate. The tarts are better cold. Cover them with plastic wrap to preserve them better.

Sweet, eh?

This week's groceries

1. Oregon pie filling - $3.19
2. JELL-O pudding - $1.49
3. Smuckers spread - $3.79
4. 6 Keebler tart shells (x2) - $5.38

Total = $13.85