During grilling season, we have an extra excuse to eat dessert: it’s just so simple (and often, not totally unhealthy)! Just toss some firm fruit on the grill (peaches, pineapple, mango, and bananas are all good candidates), some sliced cake (pound cake, angel food cake work well) and voila. Both fruit and cake get extra toasty and caramelized where the grill makes its marks. Either or both are also scrumptious paired with a scoop of ice cream.
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RecipePinsa with Gianduja, Cherries, and Hazelnuts
Pizza-like dough is grilled quickly and topped with chocolate-hazelnut gianduja (you can sub Nutella), vermouth-roasted sweet cherries, and chopped hazelnuts, for this decadent dessert pizza. -
RecipeGrilled Peaches with Maple-Cardamom Butter and Ginger Ice Cream
Grilling stone fruits such as peaches and nectarines is easy as long as your fruit is just ripe but still firm. The flavor of warm grilled fruit is enchanting—especially when you enhance it with maple-cardamom butter. Serve the warm peaches with ginger or vanilla ice cream, sprinkled with chopped crystallized ginger. -
RecipeGrilled Fruit Skewers with Island Spices & Dark Rum
Allspice, nutmeg and rum give these kebabs of strawberries, pineapple, kiwi and mango a lilting Caribbean accent.
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RecipeGrilled Fresh Figs with Ice Cream & Honey
I like to grill these figs just as dinner is winding down. They take only a couple of minutes to prepare and since they're cooked over a low flame, you can use the last dying embers of a charcoal grill (or just switch on the gas grill).
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RecipeGrilled Grapefruit Halves with Honey, Brown Sugar, and Pistachios
These honeyed grapefruit halves have brunch written all over them. Grilling caramelizes the sugar in the fruit, accentuating its sweetness, while pistachios add warm, toasty flavors, and mint and créme fraîche lend bright, refreshing notes.
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RecipeGrilled Polenta Cake with Cherry-Cassis Sauce
Grilling this pound cake may sound odd, but it’s definitely worth it—the cake gets a toasty texture that contrasts nicely with the soft whipped cream and bold cherry sauce. (You can also use a grill pan, broiler, or toaster oven.)
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RecipeGrilled Cinnamon-Sugar Bananas with Vanilla Ice Cream & Bourbon
This dessert is a little reminiscent of a grilled Bananas Foster. The secret to grilling bananas is leaving them in their skin to hold them together and protect them from the flame. The bonus is that you know that your bananas are done when the skin starts to separate from the flesh.
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RecipeGrilled Fruit with Coconut Sauce
香蕉、芒果、销eapples are delicious grilled, and you can grill the fruit while the coals are dying down. The sauce can easily be made a day ahead. Unsweetened coconut cream can be hard to find, so I’m calling for spooning off the creamy top part of a can of coconut milk. Just take care not to shake the can before you open it.
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RecipeGrilled Nectarines with Blackberries & Ice Cream
This dessert is especially good with caramel-flavored ice cream, but vanilla is also delicious.
