Grilled Tahitian Fruit Foster

Recipe Rating:	4 Ratings5
Categories:	Cakes, Ice Cream & Ices, Fruit Desserts, Other Desserts
Collections:	Butter Up The Grill
Keywords:	banana, pinapple, barbecue
Serves:	4

Ingredients

1/4 medium	pineapple
1/2 medium	mango
1/2 large	papaya
2 medium	bananas
4 slice	pound cake (i used home made sour cream)
1/2 c	butter plus small amount for brushing
1/2 c	packed brown sugar
2 Tbsp	passion fruit syrup or passionfruit cocktail concentrate (found commonly in freezer section)
1/4 c	rum (dark or spiced)
	vanilla bean ice cream
	toasted coconut for serving

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Erin Ellefsen

Lightly Salted

EUGENE, OR (pop. 156,185)

etahbear

Member Since Aug 2011

Erin's Notes:

Ten years ago I spent my honeymoon in Tahiti. To commemorate I bought some Tahitian vanilla beans and made amazing Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream. I couldn't stop there though, so I created something in honor of the barbecues on the Tahitian beaches to accompany.

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

Classic flavors, inventive twist! What a wonderful way to end any meal...

Directions

Cut pineapple and papaya into roughly 1" by 1" strips.

Remove pit from mango and, leaving the skin on, cut just the fruit in 1" crosshatch pattern then flip inside out. Halve and peel bananas.

Brush pound cake with butter. Place fruit and pound cake onto a very hot, well oiled grill, starting and ending with the pineapple (pineapple takes the longest to cook)

Remove fruit when it develops grill marks and pound cake when it has grill marks and is lightly toasted. Place on counter to cool slightly then cut fruit into 1" pieces.

Melt butter in pan. Using a wooden spoon, add brown sugar and passion fruit syrup and stir together. When the mixture begins to bubble and thicken a bit add the fruit and coat well. Cook until the fruit is slightly softened, watch carefully as this won't take long. Move pan off heat, add the rum and return to the stove to catch a flame from the gas stove or a long lighter. Stand back when ignited and flambe the fruit. Be careful a flame will shoot up above the pan. Let flame die down and the alcohol cook out.

Place pound cake on a plate. Top with ice cream. Scoop fruit liberally on the top and garnish with toasted coconut.

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Erin Ellefsen etahbear

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I tried this recipe and say it's Family Tested & Approved!

Brian Matthews sparkalow

Sep 4, 2012

I love pineapple and this looks really good. Saved!

Michaela DeBiase MsBette

Sep 4, 2012

Can't wait to try it.

Dolores Clark dnjclarkster

Sep 4, 2012

May we have the ice cream recipe as well? :-)

Michaela DeBiase MsBette

Sep 4, 2012

I agree with DeLores, would you consider sharing your Vanilla Bean Ice Cream recipe also?

Robin Schatz robschatz

Sep 4, 2012

This looks amazing. Can't wait to try it.

Erin Ellefsen etahbear

Sep 4, 2012

Thank you all for your comments, they made my boring morning meeting a pleasure! I will try to find that recipe. It came out of an ice cream recipe book that my ex-husband got in the divorce. Yes, the marriage was cursed but the recipe isn't!

Michaela DeBiase MsBette

Sep 13, 2012

Thanks Erin, sometimes marriages ARE cursed, but thank goodness the recipe was saved, much to look forward to in the future for sure.

Grilled Tahitian Fruit Foster

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