Strawberries To Die For With Cointreau Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Wash and hull the strawberries. Pick out the over ripe or very ripe ones.
• Cut strawberries in half and sprinkle the Splenda.
• To make the sauce, roughly chop the remaining strawberries in a blender and blend for about 15 seconds, tossing in the Contreau and 1/2 tbpn of the Splenda. Chill and serve with the choice of light cream or ice cream.

Steps:

• Peel wide strips of zest without the pith from orange and cut into very thin strips. (Put aside rest of orange for another use.).
• In small saucepan, combine granulated sugar and water; bring to the boil over high heat.
• Add orange zest; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let syrup cool; stir in liqueur.
• Put berries in bowl.
• Add syrup and orange zest; set aside for 2 hours.
• Whip cream and sweeten to taste with powdered sugar.
• Serve strawberries topped with whipped cream and garnished each serving with a whole strawberry.

Steps:

• Tip the strawberries into a large bowl. Splash over the Cointreau, add the orange zest and sift in the icing sugar, then give everything a really good mix. Cover, then leave for 1 hr or more for the juices to become syrupy and the strawberries to soak up some of the alcohol.
• To serve, scatter the mint leaves over the strawberries and give them one more good stir, then spoon into individual glass dishes.