Chocolate Sorbet

Here's my all time favorite dessert. Simple and invigorating.

Ingredients:

1 cup milk
1 cup water
¾ cup sugar
4 Tbsp Dutch process cocoa powder, sifted
3 Tbsp corn syrup
1 Tbsp lemon zest
dash salt
7 oz bittersweet chocolate, chopped


Method:

1. Whisk together milk, water, sugar, cocoa, corn syrup, lemon zest and salt in a saucepot over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Add chocolate and continue stirring until melted. Keep chocolate just below a simmer and stir until mixture is smooth, and visible chocolate grains dissolve away. Remove from heat and chill.

2. Pour sorbet base into ice cream maker following manufacturer's instructions*. Scrape sorbet into a container and freeze for at least 2 hours before serving.

* If you don't have an ice cream maker, freeze sorbet until solid, then pulse in food processor or blender until smooth and return to freezer again until firm.

Off course you can substitute the chocolate with something else like pureed berries. How about green tea sorbet?

Enjoy!