Frozen raspberry-peach torte

13
Points®
Total Time
30 min
Prep
25 min
Cook
5 min
Serves
8
Difficulty
Moderate
This pretty torte uses store-bought ingredients and transforms them into a frozen dessert that looks and tastes beautifully homemade. Although this recipe might take a while to make, it's really due to the freezing and thawing times. The actual time you'll spent in the kitchen is minimal. What makes this cake picture perfect is its colorful layers of sorbet and vivid raspberry side sauce. It's a great dessert to make when you have guests coming for dinner, and always gets oohs and aahs when you serve it.

Ingredients

Sorbet

2 cup(s), raspberry

Shortbread cookie 5/8 in. square

7 oz

Sorbet

2 cup(s), peach

Raspberries

2 cup(s)

Mineral water

fl oz

Sugar

¼ cup(s)

Instructions

  1. Soften raspberry sorbet in refrigerator for 15 minutes. Line an 8-inch cake pan with plastic wrap. Coarsely crush cookies and set aside.
  2. Spread softened sorbet evenly in pan, and sprinkle with half crushed cookies, lightly pressing them into sorbet. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and freeze until firm, about 30 minutes.
  3. Soften peach sorbet in refrigerator 15 minutes. Spread sorbet evenly over cookies. Sprinkle remaining crushed cookies over peach sorbet, lightly pressing them into sorbet. Cover again and freeze until very firm, about 1 hour.
  4. Combine raspberries — reserving 16 berries — water and sugar in a saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil and cook 3 minutes. Puree mixture in a blender, and then strain through a sieve.
  5. Remove torte from freezer. Place a cake plate over cake pan; invert. Pull edge of plastic wrap to remove torte from pan, then remove plastic. Smooth top of torte with side of knife. Cut into 8 wedges and top each wedge with 2 raspberries. Serve with raspberry sauce on side.