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Grilled Pound Cake and Peaches are the ultimate summer dessert! Crisp, butter-brushed pound cake and honey-glazed peaches are grilled to perfection, then served with ice cream and a honey-cinnamon caramel sauce. They’re the perfect end to a summer’s barbecue! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today we are kicking it OLD SCHOOL! I’m sharing a recipe that I first posted to my blog back in 2010. (If this recipe were a person, it would be reading and doing arithmetic right now!) This actually pre-dates SugarHero–it was posted on an old blogspot blog I used to have. I’m really excited to revive it and share it with you today, because it’s one of my very favorite summer desserts, and I think you are going to love it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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The best thing about this recipe is its simplicity<\/strong>. Now, you know<\/em> I love a good, complex baking project. My tombstone is going to be in the shape of a giant layer cake and will read “Here lies Elizabeth. She died doing what she loved–whisking pastry cream at 2 am while running 5 mixers and baking 3 different things at once<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the summer, when it’s too hot to think and turning on the oven seems like a cruel joke, and the most I can do for dinner is throw some burgers on the grill, there is nothing<\/em> better than this quick and easy dessert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s what we have going on: thick slices of pound cake, brushed with melted butter and tossed on the grill until the outsides are golden and crisp, with lovely char lines and just a hint of smoky flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, there’s a quick dessert sauce made from butter, honey and cinnamon. Ripe peaches are given a quick dip in this sauce, then grilled until caramelized, their juices practically bursting out of them when you take them off the grill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally, that same sauce is boiled until it thickens and takes on a caramel color and texture. After that, you put it all together: pound cake! Peaches! A scoop of soft vanilla ice cream! (Oops, did I forget to mention that part?) And a big drizzle of warm honey-cinnamon caramel or cinnamon syrup<\/a> on top. Heaven<\/em>. It’s hard to believe that something so fast and easy could taste so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One quick note: you’ll want to buy the season’s best peaches–only the juiciest and ripest, please! With such a simple recipe, the quality of the ingredients really shines, and although grilling + dousing in sauce can hide some sins, you’ll get the best results using produce with a great texture and flavor already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not including a pound cake recipe, because this is supposed to be a quick + easy dessert hack, so I feel it’s my duty to encourage you to use whatever pound cake you can get your hands on, be it bakery-bought, from the frozen aisle, or home made. If you do want to make your own, this Sour Cream Pound Cake<\/a> from Stella Parks at Serious Eats is the best recipe I’ve tried. Swoon<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you’ll give this recipe a try before the summer’s over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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🍓 More Fabulous Fruit Recipes<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n