Healthy Twists

Subtitle One: Healthy Twists: Left with Leftovers in Florida

Subtitle Two: BBQ Angel Food Cake, or Why Hallie Needs to Come Home

Leftovers. We’ve all gone through the mind gymnastics of figuring out what to do with last night’s chicken dinner (mmm… chicken salad sandwich?) or this morning’s extra sausage (homemade pizza for dinner, maybe?). It’s super annoying having to think creatively in order to make old food new again (like we need one more thing to think about, right?).

Well, here’s a recipe to put your mind at rest the next time you have angel food cake at a party and someone who shall not be named, Grandma, eats all the strawberries and whip cream but foregoes the cake, leaving you with half a leftover angel food cake sitting on your counter looking sad because you keep passing it over for those orange/white chocolate chip cookies next to it (they’re just so much more appealing).

Other than blacklist Grandma from all future parties we really needed to figure out what to do with that cake, so my best friend and I finally created a solution. 

Self-Effacing Comments before sharing my recipe:

I kind of wish I could say that this is a big joke, that I really didn’t try to BBQ angel food cake, but that would be a lie, and I’m a horrible liar. And no, this isn’t even a normal Southern thing to do. We would have fried it, if we were trying to do the Southern thing. This is what happens when you’re vacationing in Florida with your best friend, and maybe you’ve had a sip or twenty of wine, and your good friend Hallie asks you to write a guest blog post for while she’s on vacation. Please, Hallie, come back soon. And never ask me to do something like this while I’m on vacation, because this is what you get.

BBQ Angel Food Cake

Step one: fire up the BBQ

Step two: cut 1 inch slices of angel food cake

Step three: spread a thin layer of butter over each side of the cake slices (and this is where we take healthy food and make it unhealthy, dear readers…)

Step four: do not clean the BBQ from when you used it to BBQ bratwurst. This is important. It adds flavor to your cake.

Step five: somewhere along the way (preferably after you’ve lit the BBQ) break open a bottle of Riesling and consume, slightly faster than you should.

Step six: Once the coals are hot, place cake slices onto grill. Toast as desired and do the same on the other side of the slice.

Step seven: Plate the cake slices, add condiment of choice (we used lingonberry jam and powdered sugar)

Step eight: Eat it. Go on. Don’t let the charcoal BBQ lines freak you out. It’s like sweet and savory in one bite. A fine smoky-flavored french toast taste…

… french toast angel food cake! Genius! If only we’d thought of that before we began drinking BBQing…

My favorite poet T.S. Eliot says “In order to arrive at what you do not know/You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.” Ignorance is BBQing angel food cake (drinking may have contributed to the ignorance…but when you’re on vacation there’s really no way to tell).

But now, having traveled the way of ignorance, we know: next time there’s leftover angel food cake, french-toast it!

(Hallie here: doesn’t the cake on the grill look like chicken? And, I have to say that when Lydia asked what made Mitch’s grilled pineapple recipe taste so good and I said it was the butter, I didn’t think this was where she was going with it…but it sure looks delicious! And the hint of sausage flavor probably just gave it a little something-something, right? Thanks for the post, Lightning Lyd!)

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