May is National Strawberry Month! Celebrate with recipes for Sweet Grilled Pizza, Hidden Strawberry Cupcakes, Strawberry Brownies, and Frozen Yogurt with Berries.
*Note: While these recipes call for specific Rigoni di Asiago products, feel free to substitute with your favorite brand.
Sweet Grilled Pizza with Strawberries and Chocolate
Prep Time: 5 minutes | Total Time: 20 minutes | Servings: 4-6
From Lauren Hendrickson, YumSugar
Watch your pizza dough to ensure you don’t burn it.
Ingredients
- 4 ounces pizza dough, rolled thin
- 1 basket of strawberries, washed and sliced thin
- 1½ teaspoon butter
- ¼ cup Nocciolata Organic Hazelnut Spread
- Canola oil spray
- 1 cartoon of ice cream (optional)
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Directions
- Heat a charcoal or gas grill to high.
- In a small sauté pan, melt butter, and gently sauté the strawberries for 1-2 minutes.
- Once the grill is hot, spray with canola oil spray to ensure the pizza doesn’t stick. Add pizza dough, close the lid, and let the pizza cook for about 3-5 minutes depending on the thickness. Flip the pizza dough and cook for another 2-4 minutes.
- Once the pizza begins to brown and grill marks appear, spread the Nocciolata on the pizza, top with strawberries and grill for another 30 seconds.
- Remove the pizza from the grill, let cool slightly, and top with ice cream or whipping cream if desired.
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Hidden Strawberry Cupcakes
Total Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes | Makes: 12 cupcakes
Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1¾ cup of flour
- ½ cup butter, room temperature
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 large organic eggs, room temperature
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ¾ cup organic whole milk
- ½ tsp fine salt
- 2 tbsp Rigoni di Asiago Fiordifrutta Organic Fruit Spread — Strawberry, room temperature
- 12 small strawberries, hulled
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Directions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line 12 standard muffin cups with paper liners, set aside.
- In a medium sized bowl mix together flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream together sugar and butter until smooth. Mix in eggs on at a time until incorporated.
- Mix in milk and vanilla.
- Mix in flour mixture.
- Pour 1 heaping tbsp of batter into all 12 muffin cups.
- Pour ½ tsp jam into each cup and place strawberry, wide side down on top of jam.
- Spoon another heaping tbsp of batter directly on top of strawberry. No need to spread evenly, it will do so naturally once in oven.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, until lightly tanned in color. Cool completely before frosting.
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Strawberry Mascarpone Frosting
Ingredients
- 9 oz mascarpone (2 tbsp set aside), room temperature
- 2 oz butter, room temperature
- 1 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 3 tbsp Rigoni di Asiago Fiordifrutta Organic Fruit Spread – Strawberry, room temperature
- 6 medium sized fresh strawberries, hulled
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Directions
- Slice strawberries top to bottom into 4-5 pieces, set aside.
- In a small bowl, mix together 2 tbsp of mascarpone and strawberry jam. Set aside.
- In a medium-sized bowl, whip together remaining mascarpone, butter, and sugar until fluffy (approximately 3 minutes with electric mixer).
- Whip in jam mixture. Refrigerate at least 15 minutes, until ready to frost cupcakes.
- Decorate cooled cupcakes with frosting and top with a few slices of fresh strawberries.
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Strawberry Brownies
Total Time: 1 hour
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted organic butter
- 5 oz unsweetened chocolate, chipped
- 1½ cup sugar
- 4 each large organic eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp walnuts, chopped
- ½ cup Fiordifrutta Organic Strawberry fruit spread
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Directions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Butter 13-by-9-by-2-inch baking pan.
- Melt butter and chocolate in a large, heavy, saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly until smooth.
- Remove from heat and stir in sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
- Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl.
- Add chocolate mixture and whisk to blend.
- Stir in nuts.
- Pour two cups of batter in pan and spread to even layer.
- Freeze until firm, approximately 10 minutes.
- Spread our organic Fiordifrutta Strawberry over partially frozen brownie batter pan.
- Gently spread remaining batter over top and let stand 10 minutes to thaw.
- Bake brownies until tester inserted into center comes out clean, approximately 35 minutes.
- Transfer to rack and cool.
- Cut brownies into squares and store in airtight container.
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Frozen Yogurt with Berries
Prep Time: 15 minutes | Total Time: 4½ hours
Ingredients
- 5 tbsp of strawberry
- 4 tbsp of raspberries
- 1 tbsp of Dolcedì (a liquid sweetener made from apples)
- 1½ cups of yogurt
- 3 tsp of vanilla extract
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Directions
- Cut the fruit into large pieces and put it in a saucepan with 1 tbsp of Dolcedì.
- Cook over low heat for approximately 10 minutes. The fruit will melt and begin to thicken.
- Pass the sauce through a sieve so as to remove all fruit seeds.
- Add to the mix the yogurt, a little Dolcedì, the vanilla extract and mix well.
- Leave to set in the freezer at least 4 hours (or overnight).
- Enjoy!
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