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Cast Iron Skillet Up-side Down Cake!

Are you looking for an easy cake to bake in your BBQ? You’ve never baked in your BBQ? Well it’s time! Your barbecue grill is an oven and you should use it like one. This recipe is the perfect starter recipe for giving it a try. Just remember one thing – indirect heat! If you don’t you’ll have burnt cake ….

Cast Iron Skillet Up-side Down Cake

2 large peaches, peeled and sliced

½ tsp pumpkin spice – divided

¼ cup melted butter

½ cup brown sugar, packed

1 package of spice or yellow cake mix

10” cast iron skillet

BBQ grill – charcoal or gas

Preheat grill to 350° F.

Mix cake mix according to package instructions. Peel and slice peaches. Heat skillet on grill and melt butter, add brown sugar and a ¼ tsp of pumpkin spice. Mix remainder of spice into cake mix. Place peaches in bottom of skillet in an even layer. Pour cake mix over the peaches.

Bake on indirect heat for 35 to 40 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted into center comes out clean.

Place a 10” plate on top of the cake and very carefully turn over and serve. (Don’t leave it in the skillet! It will continue to cook and burn your cake)

Until next time!

Gary

Grilled Banana Dessert

Grill, Cast Iron, Dinner, Side dish, Drinks, check, check ,check … whoops!

There is always a component or two that is forgotten at the time of execution or more simply put, I forgot to make dessert and was reminded of it half way through eating dinner. The boys never miss this detail and quickly make a, suggestion .

Ever the clutch player, I simply stated “No worries” and proceeded to grill up some dessert. Grilled dessert is with out a doubt one of the most visually pleasing sight to behold, akin to a beautiful sunset, a crystal clear lake, ah … well a poet I am not, but it sure is fun to watch.

My attempt was to say the least was fantastic! Of course I quite often say that as positive re-enforcement is necessary to my fragile grilling ego. I literally threw this together!

I threw in some butter!

I threw in some Brown sugar!

I threw in some Honey!

I threw in some Cinnamon!

I threw in some Bananas!

Sounds like a Winnie the Pooh story …

But thats all there was to it and it was the best dessert I have thrown together in along time! Ok, a couple of weeks to be sure …

I did slice the bananas and everything was measured by the handful, oh, the butter was half a stick. I know not very precise but why? I had my Cast Iron skillet to cook it all on the grill and it was a toss and cook dessert. The bananas took all of three or four minutes to get heated and coated, you can cook them till there mush if you want.

All of this was poured over some Vanilla Ice Cream and served Outdoors on a beautiful evening. Oh so good!

Here are a few other picture on my Flickr photo page: Grilled Banana Dessert

Enjoy!

Skookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

Awhile back I reviewed the Skookie cookie maker from Santé Cookware, you can see the post here: Skookies, It’s Cookie Heaven. Basically you are baking a giant cookie on the grill. It’s a lot of fun for the kids and it adds a really unique flavor to the cookie itself.

I, of course had to take it to the next level and make Giant Ice Cream Sandwiches out of two Skookies! The boys loved them so much we had to take them to the Cub Scout meeting that night and share with everyone.

Here are the pictures showing how I made a Giant Skookie Ice Cream Sandwich: