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New Year's St Germain Pear Sorbet Champagne Cocktail

Shanna
New Year’s Eve St. Germain Pear Sorbet Champagne Cocktail. Recipe yields a little over 1 pint of sorbet, for about 8-10 cocktails.
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Servings 8 -10

Ingredients
  

  • Pear Sorbet
  • Prosecco or Champagne
  • St. Germain Liqueur
  • For the Sorbet:
  • 3 medium-large ripe but still firm pears D’anjou or bosc work well for this recipe, peeled, cored and quartered
  • 1 cup white wine pinot grigio works well
  • ½ c water
  • 1 vanilla bean sliced open
  • 2 star anise pods
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • Four ½” strips of lemon peel
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoon St. Germain

Instructions
 

  • In a small saucepan combine the pears, wine, water, vanilla bean, star anise, salt and lemon peel. Bring to a boil then let simmer for about 15 minutes until the pears are soft. Transfer the pears to a blender and puree with the sugar. Heat the remaining liquid in the pan on a simmer until slightly reduced, about 10 min. Remove the lemon peel, star anise and vanilla bean and combine the liquid with the pear puree. Transfer to an airtight container, add in two tablespoons of the St. Germain and chill completely. Using an ice cream maker, churn the mixture according to manufacturer's directions then freeze until set. If you don’t have an ice cream maker you can freeze the mixture in an airtight container and stir every 30 min or so until solid. It won't harden completely due to the alcohol in it, but after 12-24 hours it firms up really well.
  • Using a small cookie scoop, scoop out 2-3 balls of sorbet into each champagne glass and top with chilled prosecco or champagne. Add in a little more St. Germain if desired serve immediately

Notes

If you want to make just the sorbet and make in non-alcoholic -
1. Sub the white wine with white grape juice. The alcohol in the wine cooks off when its brought to a boil, but if you really don't want to use it then use the grape juice. I don't suggest apple juice since it is a much stronger flavor than grape. If you have pear juice you can use that too.
2. Sub the St. Germain with Lychee juice. You can get the juice from a can of Lychees ( either in syrup or water). Its flavor is very similar to St. Germain.