Last Friday, I invited a few friends over for a long-promised evening of sorbet and champagne. I made the sorbet that afternoon and a girlfriend brought cold champagne. We poured fizzy, sparkling wine over sweet frozen fruit, and cooled off in my living room before going out on that hot summer night. Good food and spirits enjoyed in good company: can it get any better than that? I think not.
Peach sorbet seemed just a little too plain and too sweet for my liking, so I decided to add some tart raspberries to the mix. I found a promising peach sorbet on Use Real Butter, then skimmed through a couple of raspberry sorbet recipes. I noticed that the peach sorbet recipe called for simmering the peaches, whereas none of the raspberry sorbet recipes required cooking. Thus I simmered the peaches, let them cool, and then added the raspberry purée. I think I made the right decision.
Since I was in a hurry to make the sorbet that afternoon, I didn’t tinker with the sugar content in fear that it wouldn’t come out quite right. And oh my, it came out just right. I wouldn’t change a thing about it.
- 6 medium, ripe peaches (about 2.25 pounds)
- 6 ounces fresh raspberries (one small container)
- 3/4 cup raw (turbinado) sugar
- 2/3 cup water
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- Peel and slice peaches into cubes.
- Combine peaches, raw sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Cover and cook on medium heat for a little over 10 minutes, until peaches are soft.
- Remove the peach mixture from heat and let cool, stirring occasionally.
- In the meantime, purée the raspberries in your blender. Filter out the seeds by pouring the raspberry purée through a fine mesh colander. Press the liquid through the colander with the back of a big spoon or spatula, and discard the seeds.
- Once the peaches have cooled, combine the raspberry purée and peach mixture in the blender. Blend until smooth, and chill the mixture in the fridge.
- Follow your ice cream maker’s instructions. Enjoy!
- Adapted from Use Real Butter’s recipe for White Peach Sorbet, which is from The Perfect Scoop
by David Lebovitz
- If you want to try this sorbet with champagne/sparkling wine, I suggest a decent bottle of Prosecco. It’s almost like a peach bellini or this peach in champagne!
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this sounds amazing! i’m so into peach things right now. the colder the better!
this looks amazing and so refreshing! And I love the color. Very girlie :-) Funny you mentioned prosecco because sometimes, especially when eating something fruity, I prefer prosecco over champagne.
Yum, I so need to get an ice cream maker! :)
Peach season is definitely in full swing! I need to get myself to the market stat.
Adding raspberries was so smart — I’m definitely bookmarking this :)
Love this. I haven’t made any sorbets yet this summer, and am dying to do so with peaches.
this looks so refreshing. and i can never have enough raspberries or peaches. thanks for sharing!
what an adorable ice cream bowl! the sorbet looks delicious!
Thanks, Michele! The vintage blue dish was my grandmother’s, so it’s special to me. :)
awww, that’s so sweet, and very special :)
This looks so refreshing and delicious! I love the blue bowl too! Beautiful!
drinking coffee, thinking of you (and the move) going through your archives… LOVE THIS!
Thank you, sweet friend. Can’t wait to meet up with you in a few weeks! Oh and this sorbet is hard to beat.
ps, I love the bowl!
Thanks, it was my grandmother’s! I didn’t bring it up here with me. Maybe that was a mistake.
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