Grilled Pound Cake with Caramelized Strawberries

Grilled Pound Cake with Caramelized Strawberries and Alaska Pure Vanilla Bean Sea Salt

This is a super easy and crowd pleasing dessert.  The grilled strawberries and lemon zest are key.  Serve it with vanilla ice cream or fresh whipped cream for a show stopper at a BBQ!

INGREDIENTS

1 Pound Cake, sliced into 1 inch slices - use your favorite recipe, but we often use a store bought frozen cake, shh … don’t tell
1/4 Cup Butter
1 TBS Olive Oil
1 Pint Strawberries, clean and tops removed
1/4 Cup Sugar
Zest of 1 Lemon
Fresh Mint for garnish
Good Aged Balsamic Vinegar

DIRECTIONS

• Melt Butter then add Olive Oil to Butter

• Using a pastry brush spread Butter mixture on both sides of sliced Pound Cake, set aside - you can do this ahead of time and put in the fridge or even refreeze for later

  At grilling time:

• Prep your grill for medium low heat - it should be clean and oiled 

• Combine Sugar and Lemon Zest in a small bowl

• Dredge Strawberries in Lemon Sugar - get them good and coated

• Place Strawberries on grill first, then follow with cake, so they are on at the same time

• Flip cake when grill marks appear, turn berries as they start to puff and caramelize - the pound cake will grill quicker than the berries

• Pull cake off grill and plate individually, then pull Strawberries, slice in half

• Add a scoop of Ice Cream, drizzle with Balsamic Vinegar, garnish with mint

• Sprinkle with ALASKA PURE VANILLA BEAN SEA SALT - we’ve used our WILD BLUEBERRY and our COFFEE BEAN SALT as well!