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Serves
4
Author Notes
The basic grilled cheese sandwich is made dessert-ready with angel food cake, balsamic strawberries and brie. When you’re no longer making angel food cake from scratch, you may perchance well perchance also aquire it pre-made out of your native grocery store. Some markets will lift “angel food bars” which can be in actuality loaves, and these are less difficult to slice into uniform objects than the attribute ringed truffles. Angel food cake moreover grills beautifully, and resulting from its diminutive crumb, yields an even golden-brown crust. Flexing your artistic muscles may perchance well moreover be very, very appetizing. —Furey and the Feast
Ingredients
1
pint strawberries
2 teaspoons
balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon
granulated sugar
12 to 16 oz.
Brie
8
slices angel food cake, about 1/2-tear thick
1/3 cup
melted unsalted butter-
Powdered sugar (garnish)
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Whipped cream (garnish)
Directions
- Rinse strawberries and pat dry, then slice in the halves or quarters, reckoning on dimension of strawberries. Problem in a medium bowl with balsamic vinegar and sugar. Combine to coat, and role apart for half-hour, stirring as soon as to redistribute syrup.
- Slash rind off of brie. (Here is kind of of refined, given the brie may perchance well moreover be gooey and laborious to work with. Be definite the brie is chilled quite than room temperature, as may perchance perchance help quite.) As soon as rind is removed, slice brie into 1/2-tear thick chunks.
- Warmth a nonstick frying pan over medium heat. Brush butter on one aspect of angel food cake slice, and ranking 22 situation it butter-aspect down on a reducing board or other work floor. Put collectively chunks of brie and a few balsamic strawberries on slice, then top with one other slice of angel food cake, brushing the tip with melted butter.
- Grill sandwich in pan for about 3 to 4 minutes. Flip sandwich over, and verbalize spatula to press down, to flatten quite of, so all substances meld collectively. Grill for an further 3 to 4 minutes, or until slice is uniformly golden brown.
- To support: Gash every sandwich into two triangles, and support warm with remaining balsamic strawberries on the aspect. Garnish with powdered sugar and/or whipped cream, if desired.