Boozy Berry Grilled Pound Cake with Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream

Mother's Day is Sunday and I think this should be the dessert of the day. Make it for your mom, make it for yourself, either way you'll thank me. It's so stupid simple to make, you only need 7 ingredients to get it done and I personally think it's a showstopper.
I took store bought pound cake and grilled it so it's warm and toasty - by all means, if you want to bake a home made pound cake go for it! But the store bought one worked perfectly fine and was the perfect thing to soak up all the juice from those marinated strawberries. You'll get bonus points if you put the extra Strawberry Elderflower syrup in some prosecco too!

Let's take a moment to talk about this vanilla bean whipped cream too. Can you see the flecks of vanilla in there?! Makes me want to dive in. 

I know fresh vanilla beans seem extravagant, but I promise you it's so very worth it! After you scrape the vanilla beans from the pod put the empty pod in your sugar canister - now you have vanilla sugar for baking or your coffee that will be divine!!

Boozy Berry Grilled Pound Cake with Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream

4 cups sliced strawberries

1 Tablespoon sugar

2 Tablespoons Elderflower liquor

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped

¼ cup powdered sugar

1 (10.75 oz) pound cake

In a small mixing bowl gently stir together the strawberries, sugar and liquor. Let sit in the fridge for 30 minutes.

While the berries are soaking, prepare the whipped cream. Place the whipping cream, vanilla bean seeds and powdered sugar in a stand mixer with the whisk attachment and whip on high speed until stiff peaks form.

Slice the pound cake into 8 equal slices. Heat a grill pan over medium high heat until very hot (about 3 minutes). Grill the pound cake slices for 1-2 minutes per side, or until lightly toasted and you can see the grill marks.

Top grilled cake slices with the soaked strawberries and a spoonful of whipped cream.