Raspberry Sundaes Food

VANILLA-RASPBERRY SUNDAES WITH SPOON-SHAPED COOKIES

Steps:

• Make the cookies: Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Mix in egg and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture, and mix until dough comes together. Shape dough into 2 disks, wrap each in plastic, and refrigerate at least 1 hour (or up to 2 days).
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Roll out 1 disk of dough to just less than an inch thick on a lightly floured surface. Using a paring knife, cut out spoon shapes, each about 3 inches long. Get the spoon template here.
• Transfer to baking sheets. Chill in freezer for 15 minutes. Roll out scraps, and repeat once.
• Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, about 12 minutes. Transfer sheets to wire racks to cool. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Make the sundaes: In 8 small bowls, layer 1/4 cup ice cream, 1/2 cup sorbet, and another 1/4 cup ice cream. Garnish each sundae with blueberries, and serve with 2 or 3 cookie spoons.

CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY SUNDAES

Steps:

• Heat the fudge sauce in small pot. Add in raspberries and mash the berries into sauce. Turn off heat.
• Place a slice of cake or a brownie on each dessert plate. Top with 1 scoop each of chocolate ice cream and raspberry sorbet, top with a river of raspberry hot fudge and a swirl of whipped cream. Garnish with shaved chocolate, shaved with a vegetable peeler.

RASPBERRY SAUCE FOR VERY BERRY SUNDAE

Steps:

• Place sugar and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan over high heat; stir, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, and allow syrup to cool completely. Place raspberries and syrup in the jar of a blender; puree until smooth. Pour through a fine sieve or colander into a bowl; discard solids. Serve (or store in an airtight container, refrigerated, up to 5 days).

GRILLED POUND CAKE SUNDAES WITH RASPBERRY TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9 1/2 by 3 3/8-inch Bundt pan. Cream 2 sticks of the butter and sugar together on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and lemon extracts and mix well. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Add 1/3 of dry mixture to creamed mixture and beat on low until mixed. Mix in half of the sour cream. Alternate between the flour mixture and sour cream. Pour cake mixture into the Bundt pan. Bake 1 1/2 hours or until a cake tester inserted in cake comes about with a few crumbs clinging. Cool 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
• Preheat grill. Melt remaining butter and slice cake. Using a pastry brush, coat both sides of cake with butter. Grill on both sides until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Remove from grill. Cool slightly. Cut slices into bite-size pieces. To create sundaes, fill a bowl with ice cream, add pound cake and sprinkle on toppings. Drizzle with chocolate syrup and garnish with Raspberry Topping.
• Combine all ingredients in pot and let simmer until thickened.

RASPBERRY CHOCOLATE CRUNCH SUNDAE

Steps:

• MAKE THE RASPBERRY SAUCE:.
• In a food processor fitted with metal chopping blade, combine the raspberries, sugar, Chambord, and lemon juice.
• Process the mixture for 30-45 seconds, or until smooth. Strain the puree through a fine meshed sieve into a small bowl.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, until chilled.
• ASSEMBLE THE SUNDAES:.
• In a chilled 4-1/2 quart bowl of a heavy duty electric mixer, using the wire whip attachement, beat the cream, sugar, and vanilla at medium-high speed until slightly stiff peaks begin to form.
• Transfer the cream to a pastry bag fitted with a star tip(Ateco #7) and refrigerate the cream until ready to use.
• Spoon about 1-1/2 tablespoons of the raspberry sauce into the bottom of a large sundae glass. Add 4 or 5 raspberries.
• Coarsely crumble 2 amaretti cookies over the berries and drizzle with 1 teaspoon Chambord. Place a small scoop of the Raspberry Sorbet and Cream on top of the cookie layer.
• Drizzle about 1-1/2 tablespoons of the chocolate syrup over the scoop of ice cream. Top with a scoop of chocolate ice cream, a drizle of raspberry sauce and 4 or 5 raspberries.
• Coarsley crumble 2 more amaretti cookies over the berries and drizzle with 1 teaspoon Chambord. Top with a scoop of Raspberry Sorbet and Cream. Drizzle with some of the raspberry sauce.
• Pipe a large rosette of whipped cream on top of the sunade and garnish with fresh raspberries and an amaretti cookie.
• Repeat this procedure to make 4 sundaes.
• Serve immediately.

RASPBERRY SAUCE FOR SUNDAES

Steps:

• Combine ingredients in a small pan over medium-low heat. Cook until berries release juice but stay whole, about 5 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

GRILLED POUND CAKE SUNDAES WITH RASPBERRY TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9 1/2 by 3 3/8-inch Bundt pan. Cream 2 sticks of the butter and sugar together on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla and lemon extracts and mix well.
• In a medium bowl, sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Add 1/3 of dry mixture to creamed mixture and beat on low until mixed. Mix in half of the sour cream. Alternate between the flour mixture and sour cream. Pour cake mixture into the Bundt pan. Bake 1 1/2 hours or until a cake tester inserted in cake comes about with a few crumbs clinging. Cool 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
• Preheat grill. Melt remaining butter and slice cake. Using a pastry brush, coat both sides of cake with butter. Grill on both sides until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Remove from grill. Cool slightly. Cut slices into bite-size pieces. To create sundaes, fill a bowl with ice cream, add pound cake and sprinkle on toppings. Drizzle with chocolate syrup and garnish with Raspberry Topping.
• Raspberry Topping: Combine all ingredients in pot and let simmer until thickened.

RASPBERRY ICE CREAM SUNDAE SAUCE

Steps:

• Pass the raspberries through a food mill fitted with a fine disk, or puree the raspberries in a food processor and press through a sieve to remove the seeds.
• Heat the sugar and the water to gether until the sugar is dissolved.
• Stir it into the raspberry puree and add the lemon juice and the kirsch or framboise, if desired.
• Taste and if necessary adjust with additional sugar, lemon juice or kirsch or framboise.