Honey Apricot Vanilla Sorbet Recipes

Steps:

• Freeze the apricots in a freezer-proof container. Place frozen apricots in a blender or food processor; add sugar and lemon juice. Cover and process until combined. Serve immediately or freeze.

Steps:

• Combine water and sugar in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally.
• Add apricots, and bring to a boil.
• Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes or until apricots are tender.
• Place apricot mixture and vanilla in a blender; process until smooth, and chill.
• Pour mixture into freezer can of an ice cream freezer, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
• Spoon into a freezer-safe container; cover and freeze 2 hours or until firm.

Steps:

• Wash, pit and chop apricots.
• Add water and apricots to a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat until softened.
• Remove from heat and stir in the honey until combined with the apricot-water mixture.
• Let cool 10-15 minutes.
• Puree mixture in a food processor or blender. Don't worry if small pieces of apricot peel remain, they will add extra tang in the final product!
• Stir in vanilla and cool several hours or overnight.
• Freeze mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions.
• To make Brown Sugar Almond Apricot Sorbet follow the above directions using ¾ cup of muscovado sugar and ⅛ tsp almond extract instead of the honey and vanilla extract.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Make the shortcake topping: Combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Using your hands, rub the butter into the flour mixture until there are no large chunks left. Add 1/2 cup heavy cream and mix just until blended, then turn the dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
• Knead dough just until it's no longer super-sticky, and then pat the dough out so it's 1-inch thick. (The shape here doesn't matter; you'll be cutting out circles.) Using a 2-inch-round cutter, or something approximately that size (water glasses and Mason jars also work), punch out as many shortcakes as you can. Gently gather and re-pat the scraps so they're 1-inch thick and repeat until all the dough is used. You should have 8 or 9 shortcakes.
• Prepare the filling: Toss apricots with honey, cornstarch, lime juice and kosher salt in a 2-quart baking dish (an 8-by-11-inch or 9-by-13-inch dish will work), then flip the fruit so they are all cut-side up. The apricot pieces will overlap a bit, and this is fine. Top with shortcakes; they will puff and spread quite a bit, so leave them well spaced. The idea is to have lots of fruit exposed once baked, so don't worry about the shortcakes covering every square inch. Brush the shortcakes with cream, and sprinkle with a little bit of sugar and flaky sea salt.
• Bake until shortcakes are golden brown and the juices of the apricot have thickened and bubbled up around the edges of the baking dish, 40 to 45 minutes.
• Remove from oven and let cool slightly before eating (though it's even better at room temperature). This cobbler is the best the day it's made, but it can be baked a day ahead and stored tightly wrapped at room temperature.

Steps:

• In a 1 1/2-quart saucepan simmer water, honey, sugar, and vanilla bean, covered, 5 minutes. Add apricots and simmer, covered, until just tender but not falling apart, 2 to 5 minutes, depending on ripeness of fruit.
• Transfer apricots with a slotted spoon to a bowl and boil syrup until reduced to about 1/2 cup. Pour syrup over apricots and chill 25 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F. Mix brown sugar and cardamom in 11 x 7 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Add apricots. Pour 1/4 cup water and 2 tablespoons honey over fruit; dot with butter. Roast until apricots are tender, occasionally basting with syrup in dish, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool 5 minutes.
• Whisk crème fraîche, remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons honey, and vanilla in small bowl.
• Divide warm apricots and syrup among small bowls. Spoon honey-vanilla crème fraîche over and serve.

Steps:

• In a small pot, combine the honey with 1/3 cup water and the vanilla bean. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Scrape the vanilla seeds into the pot and stir well. Discard the shell.
• Pass the melon chunks through a food mill, or puree them in a food processor and pass them through a fine-mesh sieve. Discard the solids.
• Stir all the ingredients together in a bowl. Freeze in an ice-cream maker according to the manufacturer's directions.

Steps:

• Place the water in a medium saucepan. Cut the vanilla bean in half lengthwise and, using the tip of a paring knife, scrape the seeds into the water. Add the pods and the sugar. Bring to a simmer and simmer until the sugar dissolves. Add the pears and simmer 10 minutes, or until soft when pierced with a knife and translucent on the surfaces. Remove from the heat and stir in the honey, corn syrup or agave nectar, and lemon juice. Allow to cool. Remove the vanilla bean pods from the saucepan.
• Blend the pears with the syrup in a blender until smooth. Chill for 2 hours or overnight.
• Chill a container in the freezer. Using an immersion blender, blend the pear mixture for 30 seconds. Freeze in an ice cream maker following the manufacturer's directions. Transfer to the container and freeze for at least two hours to pack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Bring sugar, water, and dried apricots to a boil in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and let stand until apricots are softened, about 1 hour.
• While dried apricots are standing, roast whole fresh apricots in a small roasting pan in middle of oven until soft, about 1 hour. Cool in pan, then peel and pit when cool enough to handle.
• Purée dried apricot mixture, roasted apricots, lemon juice, and almond extract in a blender until very smooth, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Force purée through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing hard on solids and then discarding them. Chill purée, covered, until cold, at least 2 hours.
• Freeze in ice cream maker, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.