What kind of sweets to cook in nature? TOP 8 unusual grilled desserts for a picnic. Useful tips and cooking secrets. Video recipes.
A picnic is not only meat, barbecue, grilled vegetables, potatoes baked in ash … Not many people know that you can cook delicious and unusual desserts on the grill. Their taste cannot be replicated at home, even with a conventional oven. Try to make unusual and interesting sweet recipes on the grill. Spicy fruit flavors and sweet pastries cooked over an open fire smell divinely of smoke. They will pleasantly surprise you with their excellent taste and will not leave anyone indifferent.
Grilled desserts - cooking features
- Almost all fruits and berries are suitable for grilling.
- It is better to cook still hard, unripe fruits over an open fire.
- You do not need to remove the peel from the fruit, otherwise they will be deformed from the high temperature.
- Cut strongly large fruits (melon, watermelon, pineapple) into portions, cut apples and pears in half, and remove seeds from the core from peaches, apricots and plums.
- You can put the filling into the fruit cavity, with which you can bake the dessert, or put the filling into the already baked fruit.
- Bananas are fried, either peeled and cut into pieces, or in the skin with a cut on top.
- Small fruits and berries are conveniently strung on skewers.
- For example, you can bake fruits with cottage cheese or custard, and put ice cream in ready-made semi-finished products. Also, baked fruits are poured with sauces or icing.
- The unique creamy aroma of fried fruits is given by sugar, which is released during frying and caramelizes under the influence of high temperature.
- Grilling fruits, like meat, can be pre-marinated.
- Enhance the sweetness of the marinade with honey or maple syrup.
- To add spice to the fruit, add spices (ground red pepper, balsamic vinegar, herbs), for an original taste, use liqueurs.
- Before baking, clean and wash the wire rack well so that no pieces of burnt food remain on it from the last time. It is best to clean the grill immediately after use, while it is still hot, it is easiest to clean.
- Before frying, lightly grease the fruit and the wire rack to prevent the fruit from sticking.
- Do not start making desserts right after the grill is lit. They should warm up well.
- Fruits are baked on a wire rack, cut down.
- The frying time of the fruit takes a few minutes on each side. When a sugar crust forms, the dessert is ready.
- Baked fruit doesn't have to be served for dessert. They are often used to decorate a cake or as a garnish for meat.
See also how to make fruit pizza with yeast dough.
Grilled pineapples
You won't surprise anyone with steaks or sausages on the grill, but grilled baked pineapples will delight the whole company, especially vegetarians and children.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 269 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pineapple - 1 pc.
- Vanilla - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Honey - 2-3 tablespoons or to taste
Grilling pineapple:
- Peel the pineapple and cut into slices of the desired shape.
- If desired, string pineapple slices on skewers or skewers.
- Stir the honey and vanilla until smooth. If the honey is thick, melt it slightly beforehand, but do not bring it to a boil.
- Brush the pineapple slices with honey sauce.
- Place the pineapple on a wire rack and fry for 5-7 minutes on each side.
- If necessary, add more honey during baking.
- Serve the grilled pineapple with a scoop of ice cream.
Banana boats
Bananas are good on their own, but if they are baked over a fire, and even with marshmallows, chocolate and popcorn, then the usual fruit will turn into a real pleasure. The taste of such a dessert is absolutely special!
Ingredients:
- Bananas - 2 pcs.
- Marshmallows - 50 g
- Chocolate - 50 g
- Sweet popcorn - 50 g
Making banana boats:
- Do not peel the banana. Carefully cut along the concave edge of the fruit, cutting into the skin and pulp. Open the fruit slightly to form a boat.
- Put marshmallows, broken pieces of chocolate and sweet popcorn inside the banana. Although the filling can be very different for your taste.
- Wrap the banana in foil so that there are no empty spots and place it on a wire rack.
- On a preheated grill, bake the banana boats for 5-7 minutes to melt the chocolate and marshmallows.
- Then open the foil on top and continue baking the bananas for a few more minutes.
- Serve the dessert with whipped cream or a ball of ice cream.
Bread pudding with fruit
To prepare this dessert, you do not need any utensils, only a foil envelope for baking. And fillers can vary depending on preference. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, cherries … everything goes with this pudding.
Ingredients:
- Loaf or sandwich bread - 1 pc.
- Milk - 100 ml
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Chocolate drops - 20 g
- Any fruit - 100 g
To make bread pudding with fruit:
- Cut the crust off the bread and cut the crumb into cubes.
- In a baking dish, place the foil folded in several layers and form the sides.
- Put the bread cubes in an even layer in the resulting envelope.
- Spread chocolate drops and any fruit on top.
- Beat the egg, milk and sugar with a mixer. Pour the food with the milk and egg mixture.
- Cover the top with a layer of foil and place directly on the cooling coals.
- The fruit pudding is ready in 15 minutes.
Lavash envelopes with banana
Dessert from the series is nowhere simpler, while it is one of the most win-win ways to surprise your friends with an original treat. A sumptuous treat that will revolutionize your grilling experience.
Ingredients:
- Thin Armenian lavash - 5 pcs.
- Bananas - 5 pcs.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Chocolate sauce - for serving
Making envelopes from pita bread with banana:
- Peel the bananas and cut them into thin slices.
- Combine bananas with eggs and sugar and stir.
- Put 3 tablespoons on pita bread about 20 * 20 cm in size. filling so that 5 cm of free edge remains on all sides.
- At this point, you can add your favorite berries.
- Roll the pita bread like a shawarma or an envelope and place it on the wire rack.
- Fry pita envelopes with bananas for 3-5 minutes on each side until golden brown.
- Serve the dessert with chocolate sauce.
Croissants on skewers
Surprisingly, the famous French dessert, croissants, can be cooked not only in the oven, but also on the grill on skewers. The delicacy magically becomes tastier, juicier and even healthier, and the pies turn out to be more appetizing with a golden brown crust.
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry - 250 g
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
Skewering croissants:
- Pre-defrost the dough naturally without a microwave.
- Sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar and cut into long triangles.
- Roll the strips of dough onto the skewer, starting at the widest part.
- Fry croissants on charcoal skewers until golden brown.
- Dessert is prepared very quickly, so do not go far from the barbecue.
Grilled baked apples
The most common, healthy and low-calorie dessert is baked apples. Usually, it is customary to cook a dish in the oven, but grilling it turns out to be much tastier. And to make the dessert even tastier and healthier, stuff the apples with a mixture of oatmeal, nuts, raisins and cinnamon.
Ingredients:
- Apples - 5 pcs.
- Oatmeal flakes - 100 g
- Flour - 50 g
- Coconut oil - 2 tablespoons
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Honey - 1-2 tbsp.
- Nuts to taste
- Raisins to taste
Grilling baked apples:
- Wash the apples, dry them with a towel and remove the core to make a "keg".
- Combine and stir the flakes, flour, cinnamon, nuts, raisins and butter with honey.
- Stuff the apples with the mixture and place on a piece of foil.
- Grill apples for half an hour until tender.
- Serve the finished dessert to the table, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Fruit kebabs
Fruit kebabs are perhaps the most original and easy fruit dessert recipe. Usually they are served fresh, but lightly grilled, they turn out to be more aromatic, tastier and more piquant. In addition, the set of fruits can be very different.
Ingredients:
- Bananas - 2 pcs.
- Strawberry - 100 g
- Pineapple - 0.5 pcs.
- Kiwi - 2 pcs.
Cooking fruit kebabs:
- Wash fruits and berries.
- Peel the banana and pineapple and cut into large wedges.
- Wash the strawberries and cut the large fruits in half, and leave the small ones intact.
- Peel and cut the kiwi into 2-4 pieces, depending on the original size.
- All fruits should be cut to approximately the same size for the kebab to look aesthetically pleasing.
- Form kebabs on skewers, alternately stringing the prepared fruits.
- Grill fruit skewers for about 5 minutes.
- Serve dessert with ice cream or whipped cream.
Dessert pizza with berries
Pizza is a favorite dish of many children and adults. However, not many people know that it can be dessert, and even cooked over coals in nature. Grilled sweet pizza is a very unusual dessert that will surprise and delight all eaters!
Ingredients:
- Pizza dough - 1 pack
- Strawberry - 50 g
- Raspberries - 50 g
- Blackberries - 50 g
- Blueberries - 50 g
- Almond petals - 2 tablespoons
- White chocolate - 50 g
- Bitter chocolate - 50 g
- Butter - 20 g
Cooking dessert pizza with berries:
- Use pizza dough fresh or frozen. Defrost the latter in advance. Frozen puff pastry will also work.
- Place the dough on a lightly oiled baking sheet and heat it on the grill for 7-10 minutes until browned.
- Then turn it over to the other side and lay out the sliced strawberries, whole raspberries, blackberries and blueberries.
- Sprinkle the berries with almonds.
- Put dark and white chocolate grated on a coarse grater on top.
- Cook the grilled sweet berry pizza until the chocolate chips melt.
Video recipes:
Charcoal bananas with nutella and nuts
Bananas with cookies and grilled marshmallows
