Flower Ice Bowls

"Talk about presentation! These gorgeous frozen floral bowls (edible!) are recommended for cold soups, particularly fruit soups. But I figure anything cold would be more than enhanced by these bowls. You can make a bowl for each serving or one big serving bowl. Recipe discovered in "Cooking Fearlessly: Recipes and other Adventures from Hudson's on the Bend""
 
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photo by Annacia photo by Annacia
photo by Annacia
photo by Annacia photo by Annacia
Ready In:
16hrs
Ingredients:
2
Yields:
1 bowls
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ingredients

  • water
  • fresh edible flower (to name a few, rose, pansy, sunflower, basil, honeysuckle, lavender, violets...make sure these are o)
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directions

  • Fill a metal or ceramic bowl 3/4 full with water and the flower petals.
  • Place a smaller bowl inside the first bowl and anchor with duct tape to keep it centered.
  • Freeze bowls overnight.
  • When ready to serve, remove duct tape and the small bowl.
  • If you happen to have a blow torch, flash the larger bowl to release the finished ice bowl-- but don't worry, room temperature will release the bowl in 10-15 minutes.
  • Fill with something colorful and yummy and serve!

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Reviews

  1. I made these a few years ago but forgot to rate them. They were great! I made them in small bowls filled them with prawns as a starter at a summer wedding.
     
  2. This gets top marks for presentation without doubt. However it's not without it's frustration, lol. Once you get the flowers (I used fake ones) in place it's very difficult to get them to stay in place between the bowels without twisting all around and trying to float out of the water. I had no luck at all with the method given in the recipe but it might work with petals or very small flowers. Another problem I ran into was that I had a big hole in the bottom of the ice bowl because the duct tape had pressed the inner bowl to the bottom and no water got under it. That was easily solved by simply leaving the inner bowl in place. The outer bowl released perfectly after after sitting at room temp for a few mins.
     
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I'm an "ovo-vegan" and while some may find that restrictive, believe me, I don't miss out on yummy food! I often would rather stay home and whip up something from whatever I have on hand than go out to restaurants. I'm a student at a community college (although I may return to Columbia next year...I know, big difference!). I'm taking an environmental science course right now, which has seriously effected the way I view our world. Eating organically grown foods has suddenly become a priority for me! If you want to do your part for our world, remember this: have NO MORE THAN TWO CHILDREN. I know, your first thought in response to that is "But ME in (America or other economically sound, technologically advanced, and highly educated country) in my station in society having kids isn't the problem. MY children would (educated, spiritual, kind-hearted, beautiful...fill in your adjective here) and would be part of the solution to the problems!" Well, yes, but it's really not fair to your anyone, that child included. Every person you bring into the world will require an American/Western lifestyle, meaning drive cars, live in a comfortable home, require a job, use water...all of which taxes our earth's resources to a ridiculous extent. (A whole lot more so than developing nations, who have their own set of woes--mainly living the way they are because someone else is restricting them to benefit people like us) People, we're growing in numbers so fast and demanding more and more of our world, we're going to crash. If not in the lifetime of your children or grandchildren, then in the generation after that. Is that fair to that/those children you have, ahem, more than two? With everyone having two kids only, at least we'll level off our population. Sigh. Okay, so do the right thing, avoid mass-agriculture if you can while you cook, and enjoy our priveledged life without being selfish. :-)
 
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