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Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking BBQ Desserts
Hi Bold Bakers! I'm delighted to have you out here in my garden because we're going
to be barbecuing. I have some fun and easy recipes that you might not have known you
could make on a BBQ. So let's get started.
Summer is the perfect time of year to start eating and cooking outside. However, if you
don't have a grill don't worry all of these recipes can be done in an oven.
I get a lot of inspiration from Pinterest so when I stumbled upon this first recipe
I knew it was perfect because it's definitely BIG & BOLD. It is a Barbecued Brownie in an Orange.
So the first thing we're going to do is cut off a little bit of your orange and hollow
it out. Use a serrated knife to take out the middle of your orange. Take care when doing
this because you don't want it to slip. With the middle of your orange, just place it in
a bowl. Then go back in with your knife and loosen up more orange. I like to save this
orange later for smoothies.
And there you go, it's that quick and easy. As you can see, you do not have to take out
every bit of orange.
The reason I love this recipe is because it's so creative. Baking a brownie in the orange,
means you get all of the infused flavor from the orange while it's baking and those two
flavors go so well together.
If your orange is a little bit wobbly on the bottom, you can take a knife and cut a little
bit off so it sits nice and flat on your grill.
The next very important part of this dessert is a great brownie recipe. Now I used my best-ever
brownie recipe but feel free to use any recipe that you like. However if you have not tried
this yet then I strongly suggest you do so.
I love my brownie recipe because as you can see it's really fudgie. You want to fill up
your orange around 3/4 of the way.
Once your orange is full of brownie, we're going to take his little hat, put it on, and
we're going to wrap him up in tin foil. What the tin foil does is give it a little oven
to keep in all of that steam so the brownie can bake.
You want to bake this guy off on medium heat so for your grill and your oven, around 350F/180C.
As they grill your orange will get really nice and soft and give a lot of moisture and
flavor to your brownie.
So our timer's gone off and there's a lovely chocolatey, orange smell in the air so I'm
pretty sure they're done.
I'm positive these are done so let's check them out. Oh wow, look at that beautiful soft
orange and as you can see our lovely brownie is flowing out and it's done. Let's have a
little look at the brownie on the inside. Wow! Look at that. That's why you cook it
in an orange because you get all the lovely moisture like I was saying and a really soft,
fudgie brownie.
This looks absolutely divine. Oh, man. If you love chocolate and orange you are going
to love this.
This brownie is insane but I cannot fill up on this because we have to move on to our next dessert.
This next dessert is made with really simple ingredients but once they're grilled packs
a big flavor punch and they are Fruit Kebobs.
The first thing you want to start out with is preparing your skewers. Now I'm using wooden
skewers so if you're going to use wood, make sure that you soak them for around 2 hours
and this will stop them burning on the grill.
The fruit that I'm using for my kebobs are strawberries but you can use any fruit that
you want. Pineapple grills really well. You can even use bananas, peaches, whatever you like.
To prepare your strawberry, just take out the hull with a little knife. And there you
go, he's ready for your kebobs.
The next component in our kebobs is pound cake. Now I'm using pound cake because it's
nice and sturdy but you can use angel food cake maybe victoria sponge, brioche, whatever you like.
When preparing your cake, no matter which one you use you want to slice it nice and
thick so you end up with big chunks for your kebobs because you want to make sure they
stay on there when you're grilling them.
I think pound cake goes really well with strawberries and it even goes really well on its own. Delicious!
Once you have everything ready that you want to go on your skewer, just start to pile them
on. Make sure your strawberries are also similar size because it makes them easier to grill.
And if you haven't had roasted strawberries yet or grilled strawberries, you're in for
a treat because they're gorgeous.
Look at that. It looks lovely. So feel free to mix up your fruit. Do whatever you want.
I think I'm going to stick to these two.
Once you have your kebob assembled, that's pretty much it. You can put them straight
onto the BBQ. Or if you want to make them ahead of time, keep them like this and put
them in the fridge until you're ready to eat them.
So the beauty of these kebobs is they're not only fast to make they're fast to cook. You
put them on as the BBQ is cooling down and get them nice and toasty and they're ready
to eat.
I've been keeping a close eye on these kebobs just to make sure I don't overcook them and
I think they're done. Beautiful! Look at that.
I know you guys can't smell this but the strawberries are lovely and roasted and they smell nice
and sweet. The poundcake is golden brown and toasty.
Our fruit kebobs are best eaten straight away while they're warm and fresh so I'm going
to serve them with a little bit of whipped cream and orange zest.
I'm excited to try these guys. These are really good. If you like my recipes and would like
to see lots more like it, then don't forget to subscribe to my channel.
I believe I've saved the best for last since this is my absolute favorite thing to make
on a BBQ and that is Grilled Banana Split.
So for this recipe, all you need to do on the grill is take your whole banana in all
of its glory and put it straight on the BBQ.
Ok perfect. So we're going to leave those guys on there and let them get nice and black.
When we were young having BBQs, we would always throw on bananas just as the BBQ was about
to die out. And they would get lovely and sweet and we would have them with vanilla
ice cream. And I just thought they were the best thing ever.
I hear the bananas sizzling so I think they're done. These look perfect. I know they're black
all over but that means they're beautiful and roasted and caramelized in the middle.
They're going to taste great.
So now that our bananas are beautifully grilled, all we're going to do to turn this into a
banana split is cut it open down the middle. And serve it with some ice cream, my signature
caramel sauce and some toasted nuts. And it will be beautiful!
Hands down this is my favorite grilled dessert. This banana split could not be easier and
it's the perfect summer treat.
All of these recipes take no time to prepare and are perfect for the summer season.
I really hope you enjoyed this episode being out in my garden. Thank you so much for watching
and subscribing to my channel, and I'll see you back here every Thursday for more Bigger Bolder Baking.