Pineapple Cake with Macadamia Nut Ice Cream & Caramel ~ Pineapple Sauce!

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There's simply nothing like fresh fruits and vegetables!  The flavors are so much more intense and the way they are meant to taste without any additives and/or preservatives!   And if there is only one fresh fruit and/or vegetable that is a must-eat for me while in Hawaii, it is pineapple!  It's the very first food item that we purchase in the marketplace!  I enjoy pineapple simply cut up into cubes, but my husband doesn't, so I knew that I needed to either grill, bake or cook some pineapple in a different way to get him to eat it!

So with fresh macadamia nut ice cream on hand, the logical thing to create was a pineapple sundae of some sort.  So I came up with this idea:  slice up some of the pineapple pound cake that my husband bought, serve it ala mode with mac nut ice cream, pour over those with a brown sugar-butter caramel sauce with sauteed pineapples, some banana slices and sprinkled chopped macadamia nuts!  It was sweet, loaded, and decadent!  Plus this recipe was fast and easy . . . I just made it up as I went with what I had on hand in our mini-kitchen (I did run across the street to the store to pick up a small bag of brown sugar and a tiny container of cinnamon that I can pack back home).  My husband was in Hawaiian pineapple paradise!  I was in sugar-high-overdose mode, but the caramel sauce was worth every second.  This is so "ONO", which means 'delicious' in Hawaiian!

Pineapple Cake with Macadamia Nut Ice Cream & Caramel-Pineapple Sauce

12 Tbsp butter

1 cup dark brown sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

2 Tbsp. cream or whole milk

2 slices of fresh pineapple, core removed, cut into cubes

1 fresh banana, sliced

Pineapple pound cake

Macadamia Nut ice cream

chopped macadamia nuts

In a very warm saucepan, melt the butter, but do not burn.
Add the brown sugar and stir well.
Add the cinnamon and cream/milk.  Stir well again.
Add the pineapple cubes and saute for about 2 to 3 minutes.
In individual bowls, place a slice or two of pineapple cake.
Place a scoop or two of macadamia nut ice cream on top of the cake slices.
Sprinkle the banana slices on top of these.
Pour on the pineapple-caramel sauce.
Sprinkle with chopped macadamia nuts.
Garnish:  orchids or mint if you have them

Aloha!

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Maui's own Roselani Macadamia Nut Ice Cream was perfect for this tropical sundae!

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