Café Terra

Something about this time of year that will make any tummy happy!  There were local strawberries from South Carolina at my Farmers Market filling up one table.  Then there was a table that had a HUGE pile of rhubarb…..so there will be rhubarb recipes VERY soon I promise.  BUT first, let’s eat some strawberries!!!

My hubby and I have some VERY dear friends we still hold in our hearts from Tucson, Arizona.  We lived there for fifteen years, so the friends we made were like family to us.  Two of our Tucson friends came last weekend for a fun visit, it was a mini vacation full of fun, eating, drinking (the cocktails will be shared on the next post) and TONS of full belly laughs.  We used to do A LOT with our friends, I mean like every weekend, and even during the weekdays.  It has been three years since we moved to Charlotte, so it has been WAY too long since we last enjoyed their company.

On CafeTerraBlog I love celebrating birthdays, and making yummy cake of course!  You remember my hubby’s Kahlua Brownies, and Guinness Stout Cake?  Or my Dad’s Hummingbird Cake?  So it seemed fitting to share a lovely recipe for the birthday girl!!!  She picked a grilled cake, and decided strawberries would be a fun addition!

Grilled cake?  Heck ya!!!!  Do you remember my Boozy Grilled Pineapple Upside-Down Cake?  This recipe for the strawberry upside-down cake is not boozy, so you have two different variations to the recipe.  Two IS always better than one right?

Grilled Strawberry Upside-Down Cake

 

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Prep time

25 mins

Cook time

45 mins

Total time

1 hour 10 mins

 

Author: Terra Baltosiewich

Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 6 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
• ⅔ cup brown sugar
• 1 pint fresh strawberries, slice strawberries in half
• 1 cup white sugar
• 6 oz Strawberry Chobani Greek Yogurt
• ¾ cup half and half
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1⅓ cup all purpose flour
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt

Instructions

1. You will be using a propane grill for this recipe, set the grill at 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Grease cast iron pan with butter around the sides and bottom of pan.
3. Rinse strawberries, remove stem, and slice the strawberries in half.
4. Melt butter in small pan.
5. In medium bowl – Mix together sugar, Greek yogurt, almond milk, Disaronno, and one egg.
6. In small bowl – Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt.
7. Mix together the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients, and sit aside.
8. Pour melted butter in bottom of pan, spread around brown sugar.
9. Place sliced strawberries on top of brown sugar and butter in cast iron pan.
10. Pour cake batter evenly on top of the strawberries.
11. Place cast iron pan on indirect heat on grill. Close the lid and let it sit for 25 minutes, turn pan half way around so cake evenly cooks on all sides, let cake cook for another 20 minutes.
12. Remove cake from grill, and let it sit for 10 minutes. Put plate on top of cast iron pan, and flip cake on plate carefully. There will be a good amount of liquid from glaze, so flip cake on plate carefully.
13. Enjoy!

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We may or may not have devoured the whole cake!!!!  It was THAT delicious!!  It was so wonderful to make our friend’s 40th birthday full of fun, and laughs!!!  She had to give it the full approval, and she TOTALLY approved the delicious recipe.  The cake is moist, and with all the juices from the strawberries, it makes the cake even more delicious!!!

Have you ever grilled cake?

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Guess what?  There is someone out there who LOVES pizza just as much as I do!!!  If you don’t follow me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you may not know my pizza addiction, but I can assure you it is a problem….a good problem of course!  I love pizza for breakfast, lunch, dinner, in a plane, in a car, on a sidewalk, at a party, in the company of friends.  I will eat pizza anywhere, and everyday!

So when my friends’ son came over the other day, we decided making pizza together would be fun.  He said he really LOVES pizza A LOT!  We got him a stool, and he was ready to make PIZZA with Buzz Lightyear!!!!

 He was saying, “Cheese Pizza,” for the picture!

Looks like a perfect pizza, don’t you agree Buzz?

Sweet little one was VERY happy, and enjoyed a slice while watching Cars!

I truly had such a lovely time making pizza with the sweet little man, and we did have some giggles along the way.  This pizza addiction got me thinking though, why not start sharing several different pizzas, made in all different ways.  I plan to make this an all-summer-long pizza party, if you want to join in on the fun, send me a message here on my blog, or on Facebook, or Twitter!  We could make this a kickin’ pizza party for sure!!!

To start off the #pizzaparty in style, I wanted to share a recipe my grill master and I made last year.  Everything on the pizza was made from scratch, and grilled with love!  Here is the original link for the BBQ Chicken Pizza with all the directions in the post!

Grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza

 

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Here is the link for the full pizza recipe, the sauce and chicken instructions are given by my grill master! The pizza dough recipe comes directly from Chef Troy Gagliardo site.

Author: Chef Troy, Grill Master, and Terra Baltosiewich

Ingredients

• Pizza Dough
• Cups-Warm Water
• Tablespoon-Active Dry Yeast
• Tablespoons-Granulated Sugar
• Tablespoons- Olive/Canola/Vegetable Oil
• Teaspoons-Kosher Salt
• 2 ½-3 Cups-All Purpose/Bread Flour

Instructions

1. Combine warm water with yeast and sugar.
2. Set timer and let rise for 10 minutes.
3. Warm bowl of stand up mixer/mixing bowl with warm water.
4. Add yeast water to bowl and add oil, salt and 5 cups of the flour.
5. Add bowl to stand up mixer and attach the dough hook.
6. Mix on low speed until a sticky ball of dough is formed, add remaining flour if necessary.
7. Place dough in lightly oiled bowl, cover, set timer for one hour and let rise.
8. Divide into two potions, roll into balls and use immediately.
9. Or place on lightly oiled sheet and freeze individually.
10. Remove after frozen, place in freezer bags and store in freezer until ready to use.
11. Thaw in refrigerator overnight when ready to use.

Notes

My dough was a little dry, so I had to add a little moisture to my mixture, I added more of both olive oil and warm water.

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Is there anything better than pizza my friends?  Last year I made a pizza dough with butternut squash in the dough.  During my pizza party, I want to make some different pizza dough variations, along with different unique toppings.  I think Buzz Lightyear is as excited as I am, don’t you agree?

What is the craziest pizza you have ever made, or eaten?

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