Peach And Champagne Sorbet Recipes

FROZEN PEACH CHAMPAGNE COCKTAILS

Steps:

• Place a shallow bowl of water along side a shallow bowl with 1/4 cup sugar in it. Dip 4 cocktail glasses in water, then sugar to rim glass.
• Place 4 scoops peach sorbet in blender. Add 2 shots orange liqueur. Fill blender with Champagne to maximum fill line or up to 1-inch from top of blending pitcher. Place cover on blender tightly. Blend until smooth and pour into cocktail glasses, keeping an eye out not to wreck the pretty sugar rims. Garnish with a few raspberries and a sprig of mint and serve.

PEACH CHAMPAGNE

Steps:

• In a punch bowl, combine peaches, strawberries, nectar and liqueur. Stir in soda and champagne just before serving.

PEACH SORBET

Steps:

• Add peaches to a blender; blend until smooth. Measure out 1 1/2 cups peach puree into a bowl. Immediately stir in lemon juice and refrigerate.
• Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Stir until sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute. Remove from stove and cool to room temperature. Refrigerate simple syrup until chilled, about 1 hour.
• Pour chilled peach puree and simple syrup into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions, about 20 minutes. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze until firm, about 4 hours.

PEACH SORBET

Steps:

• Fill a medium saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Place peaches in water for about 15 seconds. Remove with slotted spoon.
• Place lemon juice in a bowl. Slip skin off peaches with a paring knife. Cut peaches in half and remove pits. Reserve skin and pits. As you work, add peaches to the bowl and coat with lemon juice.
• Stir together sugar, water, peach skin and pits in a 2 1/2-quart souffle dish. Cook, uncovered, at 100 percent in a high-power oven for 3 minutes. Stir thoroughly, making sure there are no grains on the bottom of the dish. Cover with a lid or microwave plastic wrap. Cook for 6 minutes. Prick plastic, if used, to release steam.
• Remove from oven and uncover. Let cool. Strain and refrigerate until cold, several hours or overnight.
• While syrup is cooking, place peach flesh and lemon juice in a blender. Blend until very smooth, stopping several times to scrape down sides of jar. Refrigerate until cold.
• Whisk peach puree and syrup together. Place in an ice-cream machine and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.

PEACH AND CHAMPAGNE SORBET

Steps:

• Put the peaches in a large saucepan and cover them with boiling water. Cook for 2 minutes. Drain and rinse in cold water.
• Peel the peaches; halve them and remove the pits.
• Transfer the peaches to a food processor and coarsely puree. Pour into a medium bowl.
• In a medium nonreactive saucepan bring the sugar and 1/2 cup of water to a boil over moderately high heat.
• Add 2 teaspoons of the lemon zest and let simmer about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and set the syrup aside for about 10 minutes.
• Strain the syrup into the peach puree and blend well.
• Add the champagne, the lemon juice, and the remaining 1 teaspoon lemon zest. Stir Well.
• Refrigerate until chilled.
• Transfer to an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

FRESH PEACH SORBET

Steps:

• Puree peaches in a blender until smooth.
• Combine sugar, orange juice, and lemon juice in a 4-quart pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in pureed peaches.
• Pour mixture into a 9x13-inch pan and allow to cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Place in the freezer until firm but not hard, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Transfer peach mixture in small batches to a food processor. Process until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Fill into 1/2-pint freezer containers leaving 1/2 inch head space. Freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.

CHAMPAGNE SORBET

Steps:

• Heat sugar, the water, and 1/2 cup wine in medium noncorrosive saucepan to boiling, stirring to dissolve sugar. Boil 3 minutes without stirring. Pour into small bowl and let cool to room temperature. Refrigerate until cold, about 3 hours. (Tip: To cool the sugar syrup mixture quickly, place bowl in larger bowl of ice and stir occasionally. It should be cold in about 15 minutes.).
• Stir remaining wine into sugar syrup, pour into 8" cake pan, and freeze overnight.
• The next day, process wine ice in food processor or blender until smooth. Return to baking pan and freeze until firm, 2-3 hours, stirring once halfway through. Serve in wineglasses, garnished with grapes.

WHITE PEACH, CASSIS, AND CHAMPAGNE FLOATS

Steps:

• Place 3 peach wedges in bottom of each of 6 tall glasses. Top with 1 scoop ice cream, then another 3 peach wedges. Add second scoop ice cream and top with 2 more peach wedges. Drizzle each with 2 tablespoons crème de cassis. Pour 1/3 cup Champagne into each glass. Top with 1 scoop ice cream, drizzle with additional crème de cassis, and serve.

PEACH SORBET

Steps:

• In a saucepan over medium heat, poach the peaches in 1 cup of the sugar and the water until they are just tender, about 10 minutes. Remove peaches from the liquid and allow to cool. Place them in a blender and add the lemon juice, corn syrup, salt and the remaining quarter cup of sugar. Blend until smooth. If necessary, pass the peach mixture through a fine sieve.
• Place the mixture in an ice cream machine and process according to manufacturer's directions.