Grilled pluots over lemon-thyme shortcakes with a honey-thyme caramel sauce
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Some of my favorite summertime desserts are around grilled fruit. I grill nectarines from our tree, peaches, and plums. I found some beautiful pluots at WF today, so that was it. If you use plums BTW, I recommend not using Santa Rosas as they don't hold their shape as well during grilling. I made shortcakes I make periodically and amped up the lemon and added a bunch of thyme and finished with a brown sugar, honey, lemon, butter and thyme sauce that caramelizes. Surprisingly, the thyme really makes this sauce work. This offsets the tartness of the pluots. On top, although probably not really needed, I added a dollop of cream, creme fraiche and lemon I whipped up. So this started out as a healthy dessert, but in the end, not so much. So much for my diet. The shortcakes make enough for 8. If I don't use them all, they store great in the freezer for at least up to a month. In fact everything except grilling the fruit can be done ahead so that all you need do is grill the fruit when you're ready for this dessert.
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