Pineapple and lime sorbet, spiced berry smoothie, strawberries in citrus cream

I brought a blender last week and have been blitzing anything I can get my hands on!

Heres a fun dessert ive created today, which is quite simple to make in large quantities and very interchangeable with the ingredients.

For the pineapple and lime sorbet:

- 1 Whole pineapple
- 2 Limes
- 100g Sugar

Peel and core the pineapple, then coarse chop the pineapple and add to the blender, zest and juice the 2 limes, dicing the zest as fine as possible and also add with the pineapple.

Create a sugar syrup to the soft ball stage (120 celcius on a sugar thermomometer) and let it cool slightly.

Blitz the pineapple mix down, then slowly add the sugar solution to the mix blitzing bit by bit, when fully mixed, scrape out and freeze, with the sugar solution and the various acids of pineapple, this is a good sorbet to freeze without the aid of a churner as it wont solidify into a solid block like most frozen fruits and will be quite malleable and scoopable, theres nothing worse than making your own frozen products to find you have to break them with a chisel and hammer!



For the spiced berry smoothie

- 1kg of whatever berries you have to hand, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries etc
- 250g caster sugar
- juice of 1 lime
- 5 spice
- 100ml double cream (coconut milk is a fun and healthier addition too)

blitz all down to a puree, chill and serve




Citrus cream

Whip double cream with a handful of caster sugar to a very light peak, then slowly whip in either lime or lemon juice, as if you were making a syllabub, adjust the sugar quantity to keep the tartness of the citrus at bay