Grilled Pound Cake With Strawberries & 'Cream
- Fine quality extravirgin olive oil
- 1 vanilla/ orange or lemon pound cake, cut into 2cm thick slices
- Fine quality vanilla ice cream, just softened
- sea salt
- 1 orange or lemon
- 1 cup strawberries, quatered and macerated with caster sugar and a splash of orange or lemon liqueur
- 1/2 cup flaked almonds
- 55% + dark chocolate (optional)
- Heat up a grill pan. Add a tablespoon of extravirgin olive oil and brush to coat evenly. Add cake slices to the pan and grill on medium heat for a couple of minutes both sides. Take off the heat and set on plates.
- For each slice, grate a bit of orange zest and top with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream. Gently spread to cover the top of the cake.
- Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle a pinch of sea salt and finely grate/ microplane orange or lemon. rnrnTop with strawberries and sprinkle on the flaked almonds. If you're really feeling wild, add some chocolate curls and get all fancy with a sprig or two of fresh mint
- Repeat....serve and enjoy
extravirgin olive oil, orange, vanilla ice cream, salt, orange, strawberries, almonds, chocolate
Taken from food52.com/recipes/77052-grilled-pound-cake-with-strawberries-cream (may not work)