Strawberry Sorbet with Mint (2 Ingredients, 5 Minutes!) Recipe - Rachel Cooks® (2024)

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Which ingredient wouldn t you find in a sorbet but in an ice cream? ›

Though it contains no dairy, sorbet can be equally as creamy-dreamy as ice cream, and I have grown to love it just as much as its heavier counterpart. At its simplest, sorbet is a frozen and churned mixture of sweetener (usually sugar) and water.

That's why pastry chefs look to liquid sugar like invert sugar, glucose, or dextrose, which all make sorbet creamier when used properly. The easiest alternative sugar—the one you can find in any American supermarket—is plain 'ol non-high-fructose corn syrup.

Tapioca starch (or corn starch): tapioca starch fis our go-to starch to thicken a sorbet mixture, for the velvety texture it creates. If you do not have tapioca starch, you can use corn starch instead, which is not the same, but it still works.

The quality of the water is important as well — if your water has a bad aftertaste, so will your sorbet — so we recommend using bottled. The optional egg white helps to stabilize, emulsify, and preserve the texture of the sorbet if you are going to keep it in your freezer for a few days.

Adding a bit of hard alcohol like vodka, tequila, or whiskey—all of which run around forty percent alcohol—to a frozen dessert helps prevent big ice crystals from forming in the mixture, resulting in a softer texture. You can freeze the water around it, but you can't freeze vodka.

A sorbet does not contain any dairy products and is more acidic, which results in tart flavors. Another difference between sorbet and ice cream is it is a sweet alternative for those with non-dairy* dietary needs or lifestyle preferences.

Sorbets are water-based and made with fruit, fruit juice, fruit flavours and sugar. This summer favourite contains no fat but has a higher sugar percentage compared to its freezer family members, ice cream and gelato. Sorbets also offload an acidic sweetness that is created by using fruits and sugar.

Sherbet is technically not ice cream, even though they both can contain fruit and dairy products. The big difference is that sherbet's main ingredient is fruit juice or purée, while ice cream's main ingredients are typically milk and cream.

Unlike sherbet, sorbet contains no dairy so it's a perfect dessert option for vegans. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires sherbet to contain between 1 and 2 percent milkfat. Ice cream must contain at least 10 percent. Everything between 2 and 10 percent is simply called a frozen dairy dessert.

Sorbet is a non-dairy frozen dessert made from puréed fruit or fruit juice mixed with water and sugar. It should be made up of very fine grains, and contain no large crystals of ice. In some countries, a small amount of milk might be added to sorbet, but this is not the case in the UK.