I have a celebration sundae for you.
When I was growing up, my favorite dessert in Canada
was bumbleberry pie. Bumbleberry pie is really
mixed berry pie. I don't know why that's why we called it
up in Canada. I can't really find folklore about it,
but it's basically a mixed berry pie with blueberries,
raspberries, and blackberries. Strawberries aren't in it
for some reason. And I make a version of it
that my kids love. It's a bumbleberry sundae.
It's like a burst of summer and I am still milking summer.
So I figured it's perfect for a sweet 16 celebration
and I'm going to make it for you.
So I start with about two cups of mixed berries
that I put into a saucepan. I'm going to add
about two tablespoons of sugar and just a few teaspoons
of lemon juice. And I'm going to make it into the quickest,
most beautiful sauce that you've ever seen.
You literally put it on over the heat, give it a stir,
and then you just let it go for 10 minutes. And it just
becomes the most luscious, vibrant, beautiful berry sauce.
Yum.
I'm going to hit it with a little pinch of salt
at the end. I've made one for you here
and you can see that color.
Love it.
It's just glorious.
I take half of it and I just blend it so that I get
a really smooth consistency. I just blended half of it
and I'm going to put it back in so that it has this
slightly chunky, but also really beautiful consistency.
And it's just a really perfect sauce.
And I make a ton of it.
Gorgeous.
I mean, it's great over pancakes. It's great over sundaes,
you can use it, I mean, I would eat it with a spoon.
So I've made my sauce. I'm going to put that here.
And then I'm going to take some more of the mixed berries.
I'm going to add a little bit more sugar,
maybe a pinch of lemon zest,
and I'm just sort of crush them up.
And this is sort of fun.
Yum.
Because I'm going to fold these crushed, mixed,
slightly sweet, but with a little bit of tartness,
berries into whipped cream.
Wow.
And it makes this kind of amazing,
this is again super simple right,
whipped cream that will get tons of colors.
You're going to make sure that the blueberries
are a little burst, but you don't get to have to be
precious with it. And I'm going to fold this mixture
into whipped cream that I have here. I whipped it
to soft peaks, kept it in the fridge until I was ready.
And then if you just take a little bit
of this berry mixture, dump it and fold it.
So easy. So easy.
So, for anyone out there intimidated by the term folding,
you just want to be gentle with it
because you don't want to deflate the whip.
Right, right, right.
But what you get here, right,
is this tie-dyed berry whipped cream
that I think looks really beautiful and impressive,
but really was so easy. I'm going to dump it all in,
what am I, my sweet 16, right?
This is our moment. Why am I being-
You're going to skimp 2 tablespoons
of berries, come on.
Yeah, exactly. So you see,
I hope you can get how beautiful-
Gorgeous.
And berrylicious that looks.
I'm going to build a little sundae. All right.
Let's do it.
You can use any ice cream that you think goes.
I have two kinds here and I'm using these
beautiful champagne coupes that I'm going to start
with some of this sauce.
So pretty.
So I have a little bit of that sauce on the bottom.
I'm going to give a little scoop of vanilla ice cream
right here. And then, I smashed up,
I got my anger out this morning,
about the stress of Mondays, on some graham crackers.
So this is sort of like the pie crust moment.
Yum.
And I'm just going to put them all around here.
Just like a big pinch of them,
a little pinch of more lemon zest,
because I love lemon zest in this sundae with the berries.
Me too, me too.
And then I'm going to do it again.
A little bit of the sauce.
So simple.
And I'm going to now use some raspberry sorbet
as my second layer because I think it will blend well.
Oh wow, yes, wow.
Right? There we go.
My god, it's like a berry creamsicle.
That's exactly right.
Some more graham crackers.
Oh my gosh.
And then finally a little more zest
and some of that whipped cream, right?
Right on top.
And that crazy whipped cream. Gorgeous.
That's right. The berry cream.
And then, you take a graham cracker, if you please.
Stunning. Oh my god. Brava.
It's outrageous but it's berries and, I don't know,
I want you to get a good look here.
And you did it in moments. It's amazing.
This is for you.