Fruit Supreme With Pink Champagne

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 pint strawberries or 2 (16 ounce) packages frozen strawberries
• 2 large grapefruits
• 3 large navel oranges
• 1 (26 fluid ounce) bottle pink champagne
• 1 (8 ounce) package pitted dates, halved or 1/2 lb fresh dates, pitted and halved
• 2 pints lemon sherbet

Recipe

• 1 wash fresh strawberries; drain. remove hulls; cut any large berries in half.
• 2 peel and section grapefruit and oranges. refrigerate fruit until it is well chilled-about 2 hours. (if using frozen berries, thaw and drain).also refrigerate champagne until ready to use.
• 3 combine fruit and dates in a large bowl; toss lightly. arrange fruit mixture in 12 dessert dishes. top each serving with a small scoop of lemon sherbet.
• 4 pour some of the champagne over each serving. serve at once; add rest of champagne as needed.