Cranberry Granita with Orange Whipped Cream

Ingredients

• 2 cups cranberry juice cocktail 
• 0.3 teaspoon ground cloves (scant)
• 0.5 cup orange juice 
• 1.5 teaspoons orange peel grated
• 0.5 cup sugar 
• 0.8 cup whipping cream chilled
• 1.5 cups cranberry sauce cooked

Equipment

• bowl
• sauce pan
• whisk
• baking pan

Directions

1. Bring cranberry juice, 1/2 cup sugar, and cloves to boil in small saucepan, stirring often; set aside. Puree cranberry sauce in processor; add juice mixture and puree.
2. Pour mixture into 8x8-inch baking dish; freeze until firm, at least 4 hours.
3. Boil orange juice and 2 tablespoons sugar in small saucepan until reduced to 1/4 cup, stirring occasionally, about 4 minutes.
4. Mix in peel. Cool orange syrup.
5. Whisk cream and 3 tablespoons orange syrup in medium bowl to soft peaks. Scrape tines of fork across frozen cranberry mixture, forming flakes. Mound generous 1/2 cup granita to 1 side in each of 6 glasses. Mound 1/4 cup whipped cream on opposite sides.
6. Drizzle remaining orange syrup over cream in each.