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The 20-Minute Summer Dessert That Lets You Make a Mess

Strawberry Eton mess is a delight to assemble and a dream to enjoy.
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The 20-Minute Summer Dessert That Lets You Make a Mess
This fun, summery dessert features crunchy crushed meringues, airy whipped cream, and fresh strawberries. Lynda Balslev for Tastefood
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This dessert encourages you to mess with your food. In fact, precision is not advised. In other words, it’s my kind of dessert.

The recipe is inspired by an Eton mess, which is a British concoction that has an origin story involving a cake, a dog, and, well, a mess. You might see where this is going.

Lynda Balslev
Lynda Balslev
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Lynda Balslev is a cookbook author, food and travel writer, and recipe developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her Danish husband, two children, a cat, and a dog. Balslev studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and worked as a personal chef, culinary instructor, and food writer in Switzerland and Denmark. Copyright 2025 Lynda Balslev. Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
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