Ingredients:

• Some slices of pineapple

• 1 cup Brown Sugar

• 1 Vanilla Bean

• 1 stick of butter

• Cardamom pods or just ground cardamom

• 3/4 cup dark rum

• 2.5 cups water

Technique:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees

• Slice your pineapple (however you want to cut it is fine, I did thin circles)

• Mix sugar, vanilla bean seeds* (save the outside), and 6 Tbsp butter

• Line a tray with parchment paper and spread the mixture on both sides of the pineapple slices

• Bake for 30 minutes, flip, then bake another 30 minutes (also baste the slices with the mixture a couple of times to ensure maximum flavor!)

• While the pineapple is baking, prepare the base: combine water, cardamom, and the vanilla shell that you saved in a pot and boil

• Once boiled, let stand for 30 minutes and then strain everything out

• Blend the water mixture with the finished pineapples and resultant juices in a food processor (saving some pineapple for garnish, of course)

• Strain again and reheat in a pot

• Add rum and garnish with some of the leftover butter and a pineapple slice on the rim

• Serve immediately… and by a fire!