T Stands for the Prettiest Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

 

The traffic in Worcester at 4 pm, when my class lets out, is brutal. We decided we would go out to dinner at a restaurant not too far away from the museum.

We stopped at the Oak Barrel Tavern. Good food, lively, but not at the early hour that we couldn't hear each other across the table. 

Dessert was something else. On special, they had Pineapple Upside-Down Cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Since the temperature had hit 90°, it definitely was an ice cream day for me.

I was surprised with the presentation as I didn't expect anything so fancy. Yellow cake with crushed pineapple, a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a pond of raspberry coulis. Attached to the ice cream as if it was a fascinator was a very thin slice of fresh pineapple, candied as if it was a piece of glass. A mint feather completed the chapeau look.

The cake tasted as good as it looked. In the background, you can see my Arnold Palmer with a slice of lemon.

Drop by hosts, Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to find out what the rest of the T Stands For gang is up to. If you want to play, include in your Tuesday post a beverage or container for a beverage. Don't forget to link your blog to Bleubeard and Elizabeth's page.