Sorbet In Its Skin
August 14, 2008
The first time I saw ices served in a fruit peel was at the New York Renaissance Faire, probably 20 years ago. I was enchanted by the sorbet stuffed into the peel of half an orange, and I recreated it for a Mother’s Day dessert (scooping out the orange, chopping it up, mixing it with vanilla ice cream, and then mounding the mixture back into the empty orange halves) not longer after.
My mom probably doesn’t remember that dessert, but she recently bought a package of Island Way Sorbet from Costco. It’s an assorted package of individual lemon, mango-orange, pineapple, coconut, and pina colada sorbets, all packaged in their original containers, if you will (lemon and orange peels, pineapple rinds, and coconut shells). They are incredibly cute, and, except the coconut, low in calories and fat.
G. tucked right into the pineapple sorbet, while A. was scraping the peel to get the last of his mango-orange. I had the coconut, which was as rich as ice cream, and was delicious (after I got past the feeling that I was eating sunscreen, just because of the scent).
What a fun summer treat. Now if only I was planning a luau…
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startcooking | August 15, 2008 at 4:44 am
These Costco summer treats sure sound like fun! At a recent dinner party, a friend of mine served orange cups filled with sherbet. She made them the night before and stuck them back in the freezer. They looked beautiful when she brought them to the table but they were as hard as golf balls! My guess is that they should have been taken out of the freezer and put in the refrigerator when dinner began so that they would be soft enough to eat when served.
Kathy, I thought these would be hard, too, but they were soft enough for my pre-schoolers to dig right in straight out of the freezer. Yum! — Dara
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