Strawberries With Cointreau

Submitted by Mimi22

"This one takes a couple hours because the strawberries have to soak up the cointreau, so allow enough time for that. If you don't want to whip your own whipped cream just use it from a can! This is from The Vancouver Sun Newspaper, 1996."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 25mins
• Ingredients: 8

ingredients

• 1 orange, for zest
• 4 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 6 tablespoons water
• 4 tablespoons Cointreau liqueur or 4 tablespoons orange-flavored liqueur
• 4 cups strawberries, halved or quartered
• 1⁄2 cup whipping cream
• powdered sugar, to sweeten the whipped cream to your taste
• 4 whole strawberries, for garnish

directions

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

Reviews

[evelynathens]

Excellent. We had this lovely strawberry dessert watching the World Cup Finals and it was a big hit.

 

[kiwidutch]

Yum ! this certainly is an adult way to eat strawberries... a little bit of decadence to top of a special dinner. DH made this and his "thinnest' strips of orange peel are the ones that made it into the photo, the others were so big that they rather overwhelmed the dish. Still, the flavour was there, and enjoyed. Please see my rating system, a lovely 4 stars :) Thanks !

 

[Sackville]

So good! The cointreau adds just a nice hint of citrus to the berries. I didn't think there was much better than berries and cream but this is the "cherry on top" to make them divine!

 

[Sonia72]

Hi you can also ommit the whip cream and orange zest and replace with Porto. You can also serve over ice cream. It's delicious!!!

 

[nannie jo]

Hi Kuntryqtpi, I made this recipe today and is yummy. I put it on ice cream! I did put some splenda on the berries as they are so sour now. I will make this one again. Be well...Nanniejo