- PINEAPPLE RIGHT SIDE UP CAKE
Super easy spring or summer dessert with no baking if you use these market shortcuts from Georgia's cooking group - 5/10.
Ingredients:
1 Zingerman's Summer Fling Coffee Cake (one of my favorites - loaded with toasted coconut and zesty citrus flavor - it screams summer!!)
1 cored and sliced pineapple (not too ripe - you're going to grill so make sure slices will stay together on the grill)
2 containers of mascarpone cheese
About 1/4 C Lemoncello (more or less depending on your tastes)
About 2 T Powdered Sugar (more or less depending on your tastes)
Grand River Grocery Nut and Dried Fruit Mix - ground up in your food processor - you'll need about a 1/2 C ground
Strawberries to garnish
Directions:
This is a super simple dessert that just needs a few minutes of your time to put together:
Place a slice of Zingerman's Summer Fling Coffee Cake on each plate
Brush the pineapple slices with Lucero Lemon Olive Oil mixed with a little bit of honey - grill on low heat until tender and sugars have been released - keep an eye on them so they don't burn.
Mix the mascarpone with lemoncello and powdered sugar - start with a little and keep adding more of both until you get the desired flavor - sweet with a hint of citrus from the lemoncello.
Clean your strawberries - remove stems or leave in tact - it's a garnish.
Grind the fruit and nut mixture (check out our recipe under Goat Cheeseballs - we used the ground nut mixture in our appetizers, then in our dessert).
To assemble:
Cut the grilled pineapple wedges in 1/2 and lay cross-wise over the slice of cake, top with a dollop of the mascarpone mixture, sprinkle with the nut/dried fruit grind, and garnish with a strawberry! We have pictures of this dessert under our "cooking" album on our facebook page.