Passion Fruit Creations

  

As I mentioned Mike had a surplus of passion fruit (thus the experiment with passion fruit/habanero cough drops).The most recent iteration was a passion fruit/habanero gummy bear cough drop and also a heart shaped one. He sent me the pictures and they looked great. I asked him how they worked out. He said it was a failure as he put them in the dehydrator and they dissolved! He then reconstituted them and cut them in squares! Oh well these prototypes are the baby steps every inventor has to take. He loves the challenge.

 

 

cough drops melted in the dehydrator but he made them into gelatin cubes here:

 He said he wanted to try making ice cream using the juice of passion fruit. We have a good ice cream book by David Lebowitz which indeed has a recipe for passion fruit ice cream but he chose the simplest no cook recipe for Lemon ice cream and substituted the 1/2 cup lemon juice for passion fruit juice. First he put the fruit pulp through the juicer to get all the seeds out. We have a very easy cuisinart ice cream maker.

 

 

 The result was really delicate and so delicious. I loved it. You could use frozen passion fruit concentrate but if you have the fruit available it makes a very special out of this world delicate ice cream.