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Upside down pineapple cake with rooibos, ginger and pepper ice-cream

Made by Tamarin during the ice cream and sorbet flavour challenge in MasterChef Ireland 2012

Ingredients

  • 100 g sugar
  • 100 g flour
  • 100 g butter
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 50 g brown sugar
  • 50 g soft butter
  • pineapple rings
  • 2 tblsp pineapple juice
  • 200 ml milk
  • 5 egg yolks
  • 100 g caster sugar
  • 250 ml cream
  • ginger- fresh and candied
  • ground pepper corns
  • rooibos tea
  • pineapple
  • icing sugar

Method

  • Beat the sugar and butter together
  • Add eggs, vanilla mix and juice. Fold in flour. Mix soft butter and brown sugar.
  • Put this mixture into bottom of cake tin. Layer pineapple on top.
  • Put cake mix on top and bake for 30-35 minutes at 170°C.

Method

  • Heat milk and infuse with tea and ginger. Add to eggs and sugar and back on heat.
  • Allow to cool and then add cream. Churn.
  • When ready for freezer put in ginger and pepper.
  • Freeze.

Method

  • Cut thin strips of pineapple and sprinkle with icing sugar.
  • Bake in oven until crisp