Eager to try it out, I decided on using up some of the last of this year's crop of kiwi fruit and make a sorbet. This was just a combination of sugar syrup and blended Kiwifruit. Into the prefrozen bowl ( it is an insulated bowl with some sort of liquid in between the inner and outer layers...maybe salt water) and on went the maker.
The finished product was soft enough to spoon even a few days later. This is quite different from ice cream I have made years ago where you had to melt it in the microwave to be able to get any out of the container! After several days of warm summery weather, it has turned back to winter now, temporarily I hope, so not exactly sorbet eating temperatures.
Experiment number two on the weekend was to make a frozen yoghurt to see if that could be a palatable low fat substitute for traditional ice cream which uses cream. A cup of milk with some choc bits blended, added to two cups of yoghurt and here is the result.
Again, it is still soft enough to spoon after being in the freezer a few days. It is quite chocolatey, has the slight tang of yoghurt and melts quite quickly but not bad at all. I am looking forward to doing a bit of experimenting with flavours in the next few months now. Occasionally I might treat ourselves to a cream version ice cream too.
