Sundance London Film and Music Festival 2013

This is a really exciting one..Sorbitium Ices has been invited to trade at the Sundance London Music and Film festival. We'll be there alongside 19 other fantastic Kerb street food traders scooping out hearts out for 4 whole days- Thursday 25 til Sunday 28th April. British Sea Power, Peaches and Robert Redford... whats not to love?? Get your Tix here- http://www.sundance-london.com/

• Ice creams: Ginger and pink rhubarb ripple, Fresh toasted coconut macaroon, Sea salted caramel, Hazelnut praline stracciatella, Brown butter and toffee apple, Dark chocolate sorbet
• Choc Ices: Bronte pistachio and matcha tea, Cachaca rum n raisin, Orange blossom nougat
• Hard Shake: Baked banana, butterscotch and Bourbon

Sorbitium Choc Ices

Introducing Sorbitium choc ices.

These babies have kept us nice and busy in the Sorbitium kitchen thats for sure!

Find them on the menu at the brilliant Rotary Bar & Diner http://www.rotarybardiner.com/ and look out for them when we start prowling the streets again very soon..



 

  

 

 

This weeks flavours include Blood orange, Pink Yorkshire rhubarb, Hazelnut praline, Sour cherry vanilla and Salt caramel Bourbon crunch

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year dear friends! Great news! Our favourite wood fired pizza delivery company 'Basilico' is now stocking our ice cream. These guys make delicious wood fired thin crust pizzas with amazing toppings such as fior di latte mozzarella and Speck smoked ham. Check them out www.basilico.co.uk 

You can now enjoy the finest Basilico wood fired pizzas with our delicious handmade ice cream and sorbet all over London, delivered right to your door. We will be supplying 4 tantalising flavours per season. This seasons winter flavours are: 

• Sea Salted Caramel; Deep, amber caramel ice cream flecked with soft, crunchy Maldon sea salt flakes
• Coffee and chocolate stracciatella: Dark, aromatic coffee ice cream made from fresh espresso beans, drizzled with Valrhona dark chocolate
• Bramley apple crumble: Velvety, creamy vanilla ice cream rippled with fresh Bramley apples and crisp crumble topping
• Pear sorbet: Refreshing, dairy free sorbet made from fresh, slightly tart William pears with a hint of seasonal spice

Istanbul.. the quest to find the stretchy ice cream of Maras

Peds and I have just returned from a lovely trip to Istanbul. As well as sampling some fantastic Turkish food such as vine leaves stuffed with sour cherries and pine nuts and ogling at magnificent buildings dating back to 500 AD, the purpose of this trip was to explore the extraordinary ice cream known as 'Maras Dondurma' -From the city of Kahramanmaraş where it was first developed

'Salep' a flour made from the tubers of the increasingly rare wild orchid is the key ingredient that gives the ice cream a distinct chewy and stretchy like consistency.

 

 

 

 

 

Ice cream sellers fill the streets of Istanbul with their tricks of the trade.. demonstrated here by this chappy who served me a giant lemon ice cream before whipping it away and leaving me with an empty cone.

'Sahlep'- (rather confusingly) is a comforting hot drink the Turks make in winter dusted with cinnamon sold on the streets and ice cream bars.

 

Peds and I are huge fans of this exotic milk ice cream- it featured on our menu over the summer with Middle Eastern inspired flavours such as cardamom and pistachio brittle. Interestingly, in Turkey we discovered simple, regular flavours such as chocolate and lemon which worked very well with this style of ice cream. But, the flavour that wins hands down is one our favourite ingredients.. gum mastic.

Observer Food Monthly Awards

We feel really honoured to be invited to cater at this years 'Observer Food Monthly Awards'. Sorbitium Ices will be show casing the best of autumn with some delicious, new flavours. Its great to see street food is really making its mark on the map.. hurray!

*Lemon curd and spiced biscuit *Cipriani Chocolate and Pistachio crumble *Quince Sherbet *Candied citrus and almond Cassata *Sicilian Zabaglione and raisin *Damson sorbet and Nougat *Salted caramel

Kerb Launch

Thursday 4th October..Keep this date FREE! Sorbitium Ices will be at the launch of 'Kerb' ..the best street food traders will be joining this new and exciting collective.. the next step for 'Eat Street'.

Jen eats the streets

Our good chum 'Jen' -a brill food blogger who can always be found out and about with her camera came and made plum sherbet with us in our kitch.. much fun!

http://jeneatsthestreets.com/2012/09/15/jeneats-british-street-food-award-finalists-sorbitium-ices/