6 ice bombes brandied Recipes

double cream (heavy ), raspberries (about 1 punnet), icing sugar (confectioners), meringues, roughly crushed, brandy (optional), vanilla extract

fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened), chopped, super-premium vanilla ice cream, softened, creamy caramel sauce, ground pecan praline, brandied dried cranberries and cherries, garnish: 12 pecan praline shards (reserved from praline recipe )

purchased hot fudge sauce, semisweet chocolate chips, water, brandy, cherry-vanilla ice cream with chocolate chunks or fudge flakes, slightly softened, chocolate sorbet or chocolate-cherry sorbet, slightly softened, chocolate wafer cookies

purchased hot fudge, semi-sweet chocolate chips, water, brandy, ben and jerry cherry garcia ice cream, slightly softened, chocolate sorbet or 1 1/2 pints chocolate cherry sorbet, slightly softened, chocolate wafer cookies