Valentine Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream Bombe

Impressive — and a breeze to put together. The bombe is just a layering of purchased ice cream, sorbet and cookies, and it's topped off with a store-bought fudge sauce spruced up with chocolate chips and brandy. For valentine's day, dress up the dessert even more with chocolate curls and maraschino cherries. Begin preparing this a day ahead as this needs to freeze for 24 hrs.

Steps

Stir first 3 ingredients in heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat until melted and smooth.

Remove from heat.

Whisk in brandy.

Cool.

Line 10-inch-diameter , 10-cup metal bowl with plastic wrap , extending over sides.

Spread cherry-vanilla ice cream over inside of bowl to within 3 / 4 inch of top edge , leaving center 6-inch-diameter hollow.

Freeze 30 minutes.

Fill hollow completely with sorbet.

Smooth top.

Overlap half of cookies atop ice cream and sorbet , covering completely and pressing gently.

Spread 1 cup fudge sauce over cookies.

Overlap remaining cookies atop sauce.

Cover.

Freeze bombe overnight.

Cover and chill remaining sauce.

Rewarm remaining sauce over low heat , stirring often.

Turn bombe out onto platter.

Peel off plastic.

Cut bombe into wedges.

Serve with remaining sauce.

Ingredients

hot fudge, semi-sweet chocolate chips, water, brandy, ben and jerry cherry garcia ice cream, chocolate sorbet, chocolate wafer cookies