22 Reasons to Grill Your Dessert
Keep your coals burning after dinner to cook dessert on the grill –– no ovens required.
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Grilled Banana Bread Ice Cream Sandwiches
Make over everyone's favorite baked good for summer by grilling buttermilk-based banana bread and then filling the halves with the ice cream flavor of your choice. (For even sweeter banana bread, roast the fruit first to bring out its natural sugars.)
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Grilled Pineapple with Pound Cake and Rum-Caramel Sauce
Bobby Flay uses store-bought pound cake to speed up the preparation of this deconstructed dessert, which straddles the line between an ice cream sundae and a cooked-fruit favorite (such as a cobbler). He grills the pineapple slices and the cake, then tops them with a sticky rum-caramel sauce, ice cream and a maraschino cherry.
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Dessert Pizza
Bobby Flay explores pizza's sweeter side by grilling store-bought dough and smearing the charred rounds with dessert-ready mascarpone cheese and honey. He tops the pie with summer fruits before finishing it on the grill –– just long enough to release their naturally sweet juices.
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Marinated Grilled Peaches with Cloves
Grilling juicy peaches with aromatic cloves and chopped mint lends the fruit savory, spiced flavor to balance the peak-summer sweetness.
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Grilled Banana Split
Turn up the heat on your sundae with grilled bananas covered in ice cream and homemade chocolate sauce.
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Vanilla Lime Pineapple Skewers
Reduce a lime juice, brown sugar and vanilla bean mixture to this dark, tangy-sweet sauce and then store it in your refrigerator. When it's time for dessert, simply coat pineapple wedges with the syrup and grill them on skewers for a simple yet flavorful summer dessert.
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Grilled Strawberry Shortcake with Lemon Cream
Speedy shortcake that doesn't sacrifice flavor? Kelsey makes it possible with thick-cut store-bought pound cake darkened on the grill, glazed strawberries and a tart lemony cream for sandwiching in between.
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Mangoes Foster with Creme Fraiche
Swap out the bananas for another yellow fruit –– bright mango chunks –– in this summery take on a traditional Foster. True to the original recipe, the bourbon-infused sauce is lit on fire, making this one of the most-impressive desserts for outdoor entertaining.
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Grilled Pineapple with Nutella
Grilled pineapple is great, but it reaches celebratory heights when drizzled with a satiny Nutella-cream sauce. Double the decadence with spoonfuls of vanilla-laced mascarpone and a scattering of toasted hazelnuts.
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Stone Fruit Pouches
For a gourmet campfire dessert, pour a brandy-and lime-infused mixture of apricots and plums over a bed of crushed gingersnaps, then cook in aluminum pouches over hot coals for 10 minutes. It’s a fun and fruity dessert that’s ready in a (ginger) snap.
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Shortcakes with Grilled Peaches
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Grilled Apricots with Goat Cheese
For a refreshingly tart dessert, nestle goat cheese inside the velvety flesh of golden grilled apricots. Pair that with woodsy rosemary and a pinch of black pepper to enhance the savory flavors.
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Grilled Pineapple with Vanilla Ice Cream And Rum Sauce
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Grilled Banana S'Mores
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Grilled Peaches with Honey, Yogurt and Mint
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Debi & Gabriele's Grilled Peaches with Amaretti Cookies
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Grilled Fruit Cobbler
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Grilled Banana and Nutella Panini
Experiment with the sweet side of sandwiches by slathering the favorite chocolate-hazelnut spread on whole wheat bread, stuffing the slices with sweet fruit and grilling till gooey. Dust with a cloud of confectioners' sugar to really go bananas.
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Hedy's Grilled Peaches
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Grilled French Toast with Strawberries and Rosemary
Grilling strawberries in foil packets softens, rather than chars, the sweet fruit. When cooked with balsamic, orange zest and rosemary, they take on savory flavors — though they're still sweet enough to transform grilled challah slices into a french toast dessert.
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Grilled Peaches in Wine
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Grilled Mixed Fruit
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