Key Lime Granita with Vodka
(from largomason’s recipe box)
To make vanilla sugar, stir together white sugar and a used vanilla bean with a fork or clean hands. The texture of the sugar rubs the last black specks from the inside of the vanilla pod.
Source: seriouseats.com
Ingredients
- 1 cup key lime juice (more or less to taste)
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup vodka (optional)
- 1/4 cup vanilla sugar (more or less to taste)
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
Directions
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Bring the key lime juice, water, and vodka to a boil, and add the vanilla sugar. You could add the vodka later if you wanted to keep the alcohol content.
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Once the sugar has dissolved, take the mixture off the stove to cool.
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Add the cream (and the vodka if you want to retain the alcohol) and decant into a brownie baking dish. Place in the freezer, and scrape with a fork once an hour for 4 hours, or until flaky and frozen in little key lime pie crystals. Serve in frozen martini glasses.