Ice-cream creations- ways to gild ice creams and sherbets

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
Snowballs. Roll balls of ice cream in shredded coconut or chopped nuts. Top
With chocolate sauce, canned crushed pineapple, or canned whole-cranberry
Sauce, stirred with fork.

Directions

Funny Face. For each serving, set ball of vanilla ice cream on chocolate-covered doughnut. Add raisin for nose, semisweet-chocolate pieces for eyes, cinnamon candy for mouth, ice-cream cone for cap.

Pineapple Tower. Top each canned pineapple slice with ball of vanilla ice cream. Spoon on apricot jam; sprinkle with slivered, roasted, blanched almonds. Ice-Cream Sandwiches. Slice ice cream from cylindrical container ½" thick. Place slices between large sugar cookies, sandwich-fashion, topping ice cream with sauce if desired.

Frosted Sherbets. Dip tiny bunches green grapes into lemon juice- then sprinkle with sugar. Use to garnish lemon or raspberry sherbet.

Pine-Oranges. Top orange sherbet with canned crushed pineapple (or strawberries or raspberries). French Pears. Top canned pear halves with lemon sherbet or vanilla ice cream. Pour on chocolate sauce.

Sherbet Sundaes. Top lemon or orange sherbet with slightly thawed frozen orange-juice concentrate; then pour on heated raspberry or strawberry jam. Chocolate Parfait. Alternate chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and canned crushed pineapple. Orange Parfait.

Alternate orange sections, vanilla ice cream, and strawberry jam.

Mincemeats Aflame. Spoon heated prepared mincemeat onto vanilla or coffee ice cream. Top with sugar cube dipped into lemon extract; light; serve.

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