Valentine's Recipes > Champagne Sorbet

How to make Champagne sorbet:
Unless you would prefer to drink the Champagne, you could make this different sorbet. It can be used as a dessert course or as a palate cleanser between courses.





Ingredients

1 cup caster/superfine sugar
juice of one organic lemon
juice of one organic orange
1/2 pint water
1/2 pint champagne
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method

- Heat the water and dissolve the sugar in it.
- Stir in the juice of the orange and the lemon and the champagne.
- Put into a container and place in the freezer.
- When the mixture begins to freeze around the edges, take it out and whip it to break up the ice crystals.
- Repeat this process until you have a smoothly frozen sorbet.
- If you have an ice cream maker the process is easier.
- You could serve it in two individual dishes (there is enough for more than one serving each) or put the whole lot in an ice bowl.
- To make an ice bowl.
- Take two basins, one slightly smaller than the other.
- Put the smaller bowl into the larger and fill the gap between them with water.
- Push red and pink rose petals down into the gap and freeze until solid.
- Remove basins by holding under running cold water.
- Replace ice bowl in freezer until needed.