If you're stuck for cooling dessert ideas, how about sorbet this summer?
Learning how to make sorbet at home is easier than you think and doesn't always call for an ice-cream maker.
Sorbet ingredients are extremely simple, usually consisting purely of fruit, sugar and water which makes sorbets much lighter than their dairy counterpart, ice-cream.
Infact, being both gluten and dairy free, sorbet was also one of the original desserts used to satisfy a vegan audience.
Sorbets are commonly found as a palate cleanser between courses at a multiple course dinner but are also ideal way to end a dinner party where a refreshing and light dessert is called for.
Convinced yet?
Here are five recipes to show you how to make sorbet, from the elegant champagne sorbet to the classic Italian influenced, lemon sorbet ice.
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