Today was a bit busy! A few errands in the morning and gift wrapping and the last bunch of cards and packages made it to the post office. Our school girls had “evening school” which is a tradition at their school on the day they have their Christmas program. They also have a bake sale and a café to raise funds for field trips and school equipment. Parents are welcomed to bake and I had promised to do so. Our little snowflake princess just happens to be so quick! I had cookies cooling on racks when one of the girls came and informed that she had taken a stack of cookies and had taken one bite out of each! Back to baking! Fortunately I hadn’t used up all of the dough, so round two was quite quick!
After getting the cookies made and packaged and girls sent to school (we joined them later in the evening) I had a few minutes of down time since the rest of the bunch entertained themselves. I decided to make our holiday dessert which is so easy that it only takes a few minutes if you have all the ingredients on hand. The freezer does the rest of the work and they are ready to go when the holidays arrive. These would also be perfect for a holiday party. In Finnish they are called jäädyke and the closest word to it that I could find is sorbet. But sorbet does not quite describe them accurately. These individual jäädyke desserts which I made with gingerbread and lingonberries, (may substituted with another type of tart berry) work well after a heavy meal because they are intended to be fairly small in size.
Joulujäädyke or Christmas sorbet, serves 10
0,5 l/generous 2 cups heavy cream
350 g/12.3 oz Turkish or Greek yoghurt
5 gingerbread cookies, crushed (If your cookies are very thin, you may want to use 7 cookies)
150 g/5.3 oz lingonberries or other tart berries(preferably frozen)
0.8 dl/ 1/3 c sugar
paper cups
Crush the gingerbread and set aside. Place the berries and sugar into a bowl. Using a wand mixer or food processor pulse a few times so that they are partially crushed. Whip the cream. Fold in the yoghurt and divide mixture by placing half into another bowl. Fold the gingerbread crumbs into 1/2 of the cream-yoghurt mixture. Add sugar to achieve the preferred sweetness.
Into the other half, fold in the lingonberries.
Fill each paper cup with a large spoonful of gingerbread mixture and with an equal amount of the lingonberry mixture. My paper cups were about two-thirds full.
Place filled cups into the freezer. Take out of the freezer about 20-30 minutes before serving. Run the cups upside down quickly under hot water and press the bottom of the cup to release the sorbet. Drizzle with caramel sauce. (caramel recipe here) Enjoy!
Happy Birthday to my Grampa! (see previous posts by my Grampa here and here)
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I bet the combination of the tart-flavored sorbet with the sweet caramel is delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe for a great holiday treat.
Thank you! I really enjoy flavors where the tart is balanced with a sweet flavor…it gives multidimensional flavor.
Beautiful story. Love the mixture of gingerbread cookies, berries, and yogurt. Looks amazing!!
Thank you Judy! They are now in the freezer waiting for our Christmas dinner!
Sounds perfect 🙂
Something light like this is perfect for the holidays. I am wondering if cranberries would be too tart to use as a substitute….. Happy Birthday to your Grandpa. Do you cook together often?
I think cranberries could work, lingonberries are fairly similar to cranberries and I occassionally substitute them into recipes. We unfortunately don’t get the opportunity to bake together too often since the ocean separates the two continents but thank goodness for the virtual world it is easy to share experiences. It feels like the distance is not so great!
What a delicious dessert. Your princess is funny. I can just imagine what fun she had sampling the baking. And don’t we all just want to do that anyway when we see freshly baked cookies.
Yes, she is so funny and busy, always “helping”. I was just thinking that each one of us gets into the holiday spirit in their own way. I think that it is perfectly normal for little ladies that are under two (even for some a bit older) to get into the spirit by sampling the baking even if it means that Mom needs to rebake a little. 🙂
Lovely recipe! These look so tasty 🙂
Thank you!
What a great recipe! Looks like something we need to add to our holiday menu. Thanks for sharing!
I love having recipes that are simple and quick…perfect for a season so filled with much to do.
Happy Birthday to Grandpa! I like the idea of the little tart and sweet and creamy combo.
Thank you! It’s quick, can be made a head of time and tastes delicious!
Looks delicious and I love the photos!!
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This looks delicious! With all the wonderful recipes I keep discovering on your blog and others I’m afraid I’m going to have to exercise much more *sigh* But this recipe is a must, it just looks so yummy – any exercise i have to do will definitely be worth it!
So nice, what a excellent recipe.
The recipe is very versatile…you can use different berries or maybe chocolate cookie crumbs for a different flavor!