Tropikale Smoothie

Yellowbrick Cafe

1 whole banana
1/2 cup pineapple
3/4 cup mango
12 oz milk
2 stems of kale 

Use frozen fruit for a quick cold drink. Blend and enjoy! 

Sunny's Sparkling Blueberry Drink

Recipe Found Here

4 cups blueberries 

2 Tablespoons lavender flower buds (substituted with mint leaves, add mint leaves to pitcher while cooling in fridge)

4 cups water 

2 cups sugar 

4 large lemons, juiced 

4 cups soda water 

Instructions In a medium sized pot, combine blueberries, lavender and 4 cups of water. Place on the stove on medium high heat and bring to a boil. 

Once the mixture reaches a boil, turn down heat to low and let simmer for 25 minutes. 

Add sugar and stir until it dissolves, then strain the syrup through a fine mesh sieve into a mason jar. 

Squeeze the lemons and strain the juice and add it to the jar then refrigerate the syrup until it's cold. It's also a good idea to chill your soda water as well. 

When ready to serve, place the syrup in a large pitcher and add 4 cups of carbonated water. Serve immediately over ice. 

If desired, garnish with fresh lavender sprigs, a slice of lemon and fresh blueberries. Notes A single recipe makes 72 ounces or about 2 liters of soda. 

Notes:

To make a single glass of soda, the ratio of blueberry syrup to water is 5 parts syrup to 4 parts soda water. For a 6 ounce portion, it's easiest to use metric, so the recipe would be 100ml syrup and 80ml soda water. 

This beverage is quite rich and sweet so it doesn't lose it's punch when served over ice. If you'd like to serve it straight you may want to add additional soda water. 

Make it ahead! The syrup can be refrigerated up to 3 days or frozen up to a month.

Favorite Green Smoothie

Recipe Adapted from HERE

10 WW pts on green plan

1/2 small banana, frozen
3/4 cup mixed berries, frozen (I use strawberries, mango, and pineapple)
1 big handful of spinach (a very packed down 1 cup)
1 Tablespoon almond butter or nut butter of choice
1/4 - 1/2 avocado
1 Tablespoon golden flaxseed
1/4 cup whey protein powder (2 scoops collagen peptides or protein of choice)
1 cup unsweetened almond milk or milk of choice

Sparkling Cranberry Apple Cider Punch

Recipe Found HERE

1 cup fresh cranberries
1/3 cup water
1/2 cup granulated sugar
4 cups apple cider (see note), chilled
2 cups ginger ale, chilled 
2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 cups 100% cranberry juice, chilled
Crushed ice

In a small saucepan, combine the cranberries and water and simmer for 2-3 minutes until the cranberries pop and split. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar. Let cool to room temperature (or chill in the refrigerator).

In a 2-quart pitcher, pour in the cranberry mixture. Add the apple cider, ginger ale, lemon juice and cranberry juice. Mix. Serve in cups with crushed ice.

NOTES 

Make ahead of time: combine everything but the ginger ale in the pitcher and refrigerate for several hours. Add the chilled ginger ale when ready to serve.

Best served in a punch bowl. The cranberries clogged my beverage dispenser.

Simple Lemonade

Recipe Found Here

1 3/4 cups white sugar
8 cups water
1 1/2 cups lemon juice

In a small saucepan, combine sugar and 1 cup water. Bring to boil and stir to dissolve sugar.

Allow to cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate until chilled.

Remove seeds from lemon juice, but leave pulp (if desired). In pitcher, stir together chilled syrup, lemon juice and remaining 7 cups water.

Lava Flow Drink

Sunny A.

Recipe Found Here

3 1/2 cups pineapple juice
2 cans (15-ounces each) cream of coconut (like Coco Lopez brand)
1 cup half-and-half, fat-free or regular 24 ounces frozen strawberries in syrup, slightly thawed until slushy in texture
Ice
Fresh pineapple for garnish, if desired

In a blender, puree the slightly thawed strawberries with 1/2 cup water. The mixture should be syrupy and thick. Transfer to a liquid measure, bowl or pitcher and set aside.

In a pitcher, whisk together the pineapple juice, cream of coconut and half-and-half.

In a blender (washed from pureeing the strawberries), fill up halfway with ice. Pour in the coconut/pineapple mixture until it comes up to an even height with the ice. Blend until slushy (add more coconut/pineapple mixture if it is too thick to blend easily).

Pour about an inch of the strawberry syrup mixture into a cup. Pour the icy coconut/pineapple mixture into the center of the strawberry mixture in the cup until the cup is filled. If desired, gently swirl the mixture with a straw. Garnish with fresh pineapple, if desired, and serve immediately.

Melanie's Punch

Note: Fresca contains aspartame. Orangina would be a good substitute for the Fresca if that is a concern.

Fresca Soda (64oz for 1 bottle)
Apple Raspberry Juicy Juice (34oz for 1 bottle)

1 whole bottle of Fresca, to 1 bottle of juice. Mix and serve! The proportions end up being 1/3 juice to 2/3 soda.

***Stan's Hot Cocoa***

Jenn H.

3/4 cup (6oz) Evaporated Milk
2 1/2 cups Milk
3 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder, *Dutch Process Cocoa Powder
1/2 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Tablespoons Butter

In a cocoa motion (or hot chocolate maker) - add the evaporated milk, then add the milk (2 %  is great, but skim milk also will taste wonderful and have less fat). Add in cocoa, sugar, vanilla and butter.

If using cinnamon creamer - you may want to add 1/2 - 1 tsp cinnamon powder as it is
a weaker creamer. (optional creamers: hazlenut, mint, french vanilla)

(4-6 servings)

*I purchase my dutch cocoa online from Penzeys Spices:
https://www.penzeys.com/

Hot Cocoa

(Hershey's Favorite Hot Cocoa)

Top of stove, six servings.

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup Cocoa
dash salt
1/3 cup hot water
4 cups milk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix sugar, cocoa, and salt in saucepan, stir in water. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture boils; boil and stir 2 minutes. Sitr in milk and heat, Do Not Boil. Remove from heat; add vanilla.


Single Serving

2 Tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons to 2 Tablespoons Cocoa, depending on how rich you like it
Dash salt
1 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix sugar, cocoa, and salt in large mug. Heat milk in microwave at high(100%) 1 1/2 minutes or until hot. Gradually add hot milk to cocoa mixture in mug, stirring until well blended. Stir in vanilla.

recipe found here

Lisa's Frozen Fruit Smoothie

1 banana
5 frozen strawberries
1/3 cup frozen raspberries
1/4 or 1/8 cup frozen blueberries or peach slices (optional)
1/4 cup milk & apple juice or 1/2 cup Trader Joe's peach juice or 1/2 cup Trader Joe's unsweetened soy milk
1-3 teaspoons sugar or honey (optional)

Combine all in blender until smooth. 1-2 servings. If you have fresh fruit and not frozen, you may put in the freezer for 20 minutes or add a couple of ice cubes to the blender to make it colder.

Fresh Peach Drink

(The Essential Mormon Cookbook)

2 large ripe peaches, peeled and pitted
1 cup orange juice
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (bottled will work)
½ cup sugar
1 cup crushed ice or about 12 ice cubes, more or less depending on taste.

Mix all ingredients in blender or food processor. Makes 2-4 servings.

Pink Punch

½ Quart Raspberry Sherbet
2 liters Sprite

Pour soda into large punch bowl. Add scoops of Sherbet until full. Swirl mixture until soda turns pink and frothy. Serves approximately 20.

Party Punch

(Kelli's MIL)

2 packages Unsweetened strawberry Kool-Aid
2 cups sugar
2 quarts cold water
1 large can frozen lemonade
1 large can frozen orange juice
1 large can pineapple juice
2 liter bottle ginger ale or Sprite

Mix together until dissolved. Add ginger ale just before serving. (You can freeze the mixture without ginger ale for a slush and then add ginger ale when ready to serve.)

Wassail (Hot Apple Cider)

(Oma J.)

2 Quarts Apple Cider
⅔ cup clear Karo Syrup
½ teaspoon ground cloves
1 Lemon cut in rings
3 Cinnamon sticks

Put all in pot and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Serve hot. May garnish each cup with a cinnamon stick.

Banana Slush

(Grandma H.)

5 mashed bananas
6 cups water
3 cups sugar
1 can pineapple juice (46 ounces)
1 large can frozen orange juice concentrate
⅓ cup lemon juice
Sprite or Ginger Ale, about 3 liters

Mix together and freeze in small containers. Mix with Sprite or Ginger Ale and serve.