Shirley Temple Bunny Bites
I wish more accidents went like this one. I was trying to make a completely different ice cream sandwich for a gathering and needless to say my batch was not going to be done in time. I had made Shirley Temple Sorbet a few days prior so I had that chillin’ in the freezer with no plans except to enjoy it myself. Fast forward to when I went to the store and came across these festive bunny face head cookies.
Bunny Cookie Collage
To my pleasant surprise, sorbet is 1.87654 billion times easier to make a sandwich with vs. ice cream. I’m still somewhat struggling on a cohesive sammie making process. I’ve tried various formats, and still run into issues. Nonetheless, I have found that sorbets are a sammie’s knight in shining armor. They mesh wonderfully, and sorbet is incredibly easy to mold in the cookie. In addition to the flexibility, sorbet doesn’t melt nearly as fast as ice cream does, so it was nice to not have to rush. The cookies were on the harder side so upon a chomp, the sorbet would squeeze out the edges. Wasn’t too pumped about that but it comes with the territory, these ready-made cookies have texture restrictions.
This was definitely a moment of accidental bliss 
Shirley Temple Bunny Bites
Bunny Faces
Shirley Temple Sorbet
“THE drink” in ’91. Or at least it was for me. To this day I still love Shirley Temples. I have grenadine on my shelf next to my Bailey’s as a reminder that “kid drinks” are just as cool as “grown up drinks”. As a refresher, a Shirley Temple is lemon and lime soda mixed with grenadine then garnished with a cherry. There are some variations but this is how I drank it in the 90′s. Lemon and Lime are like the Batman and Robin of citrus fruits. They “POW” – “ZING”- “KICK” your taste buds with their flavor.
Lime Mugshot
Lemon Mugshot
It’s been warmer in these here parts of lovely S.F. and I wanted something refreshing. I have been counting the degrees until it was appropriate to make this sour n’ sour tag team. I found a recipe for Shirley Temple ice cream but I wanted the lemon and lime uncensored so I opted for a sorbet.
I winged it and came up with a process that was easy enough: liquefy/chop lemons and limes, mix with some soda water, then mingle with simple syrup. After negotiating with the cap of grenadine that was protesting to say on the bottle, I finally got to the red sugary liquid and reunited it with the lemon/lime/sugar medley. NOTE: If you own grenadine, do a routine maintenance and make sure the cap isn’t attached to the bottle, it’ll save you many ” mother &^%$ get off!”
The taste is potent. I attribute it to the fact that I didn’t use just the juices from the fruit but the actual fruit itself. I was pleasantly surprised with the consistency. (If you can’t tell by now I’m rather obsessed with consistency and textures). Shirley is smooth like margarine in a tub, not too icicle-y which I was envisioning. The grenadine comes through at the very end like the encore to the whole refreshing show. Next time I think I’ll throw in a little mint to distract a little from the lemon/lime romance. Thumbs up to the cotton candy color and spring!
Shirley Temple Sorbet
