Table of Contents: Summer Beverage Ideas...... 2 Part I: Smoothies and Shakes...... 3 Scarlet Sunrise Smoothie...... 3 Pink Pajamas Smoothie...... 3 Kong Goes Bananas Smoothie...... 3 The Blimp Smoothie...... 4 The Canterbury Smoothie...... 4 The Best Strawberry Shake...... 4 Cupshakes (Cupcake Shakes)...... 6 Chocolate Cherry or Strawberry Cupshakes...... 6 Raspberry Lemon Cupshakes...... 8 Part II: Lemonades and Limeades...... 9 Cherry Lime Rickey...... 9 Lavender Lemonade...... 9 Brazilian Limeade...... 10 Watermelon Lemonade...... 10 Peach Lemonade...... 11 Cucumber Limeade...... 11 Strawberry Lemonade Slush...... 12 Part III: Sodas and Floats...... 13 How to Make Homemade Soda Pop...... 13 Designer Soda Floats...... 14 Easy Strawberry Lemonade Soda Pop...... 15 Ice Cream Italian Sodas...... 16 Peach Ice Cream Italian Soda...... 16 Summer Drink Stand Ice Cream Italian Soda...... 16 Pomegranate Lime Ice Cream Italian Soda...... 17 Orange Cream Ice Cream Floats...... 17 Strawberry Ice Cream Italian Soda (Tiger’s Blood)...... 17 Part IV: Other Summer Drinks...... 18 Don’t let the heat of summer get you down. Fireworks in a Cup...... 18 Stay cool and refreshed with these perfect Ginger Peach Mocktail...... 18 and unique summer drinks. You’ll want it to Sparkling Huckleberry Lemon...... 19 Mango Mint Sparkling Drink...... 19 be summer year-round once you start making Blackberry Lime Virgin Margaritas...... 20 these delicious beverages a part of your Rosemary Citrus Spritzer...... 21 summers.

Copyright 2015, The Prepared Pantry. All rights reserved.

The material herein is published by The Prepared Pantry for the private use of individuals and may not be used for commercial purposes without the express consent of the publisher. The information contained herein is believed accurate but the publisher makes no warranties, express or implied, and the recipient is using this information at his or her own risk. Summer Beverage Ideas Part I: Smoothies and Shakes Our Favorite Smoothie Recipes

Scarlet Sunrise 2 cups fresh watermelon without seeds 12 large , frozen 2 large scoops peach yogurt or peach ice cream

Smoothies are often made with ice cubes Pink Strawberry Pajamas and frozen juice. We prefer frozen yogurt 2 large bananas or a scoop of ice cream. This makes them 10 large strawberries, frozen rich and creamy. They are still good for you, loaded up with fresh or frozen fruit, and they 1 cup coconut milk are so refreshing and yummy. 2 large scoops frozen yogurt We love smoothies. When it’s hot in the summertime, nothing seems more refreshing Kong Goes Bananas and so easy. We just load the ingredients into the blender, grind away, and we have a 2 large bananas smoothie. 1/4 teaspoon

In the heat of the summer, it’s important to - Add pancake syrup to your And we don’t feel quite so guilty slurping 1/2 teaspoon almond extract drink plenty of liquids. That’s especially so lemonade to make cherry lemonade, a smoothie as a shake. First, we replace 2 large scoops vanilla yogurt for children as they play in the sun. Here are strawberry lemonade, and so forth. most or all of the ice cream with ice cubes. some ideas: - Add fruit juices or fruit syrup to soda Second, we usually use whole fruit instead of water. syrup or juice. The result is a drink with less fat, fewer calories, and more fiber (from the - Puree fruits and freeze them into ice - Add fruit juices or fruit syrup to fruit) and just as refreshing. cubes. Use the ice cubes in lemonade lemonade. or other drinks. Peaches, raspberries, Enter the banana. A banana gives a These are just a few ideas to get you started, and cherries work well. Strain the smoothie the velvety richness of ice cream but keep reading and you’ll learn about and fruit puree before freezing to make it without the fat and calories. Bananas add get recipes for smoothies, shakes, limeades, smooth. fiber, vitamins, and minerals that ice cream Italian sodas and more! doesn’t. We love adding bananas to our - If you don’t want to go to the work smoothies. (Besides, it’s a great way to use up of pureeing and straining fruit, use those bananas before they get too ripe.) a fruit pancake syrup. We made ice cubes from blueberry syrup and used them in lemonade. Dilute the Smoothie Directions syrup with two parts water for one Put the ingredients in a blender and blend part syrup before freezing the ice until smooth. Add milk or ice for the cubes. Other syrup choices include right consistency, if required. Each of boysenberry, cherry, raspberry, the following smoothie recipes makes 1-3 peach, and strawberry. smoothies.

2 3 Part II: Lemonades and Limeades Raspberry Lemon Cherry Lime Rickey Cupshakes

4. Place the finished cupcakes in the end up with about 2-1/2 cups syrup. freezer for 10 to 15 minutes. Discard the solids. Refrigerate the syrup until completely cool, at least 5. While the cupcakes are in the freezer, 30 minutes or up to 1 week. To serve, make the milkshake. Place the milk combine each serving with 3/4 cup and the ice cream into the blender club soda and 3 Tablespoons syrup in and blend until it becomes a smooth, tall, ice-filled glasses. liquid form. 3. Garnish with cherries and lime slices. 6. Cut one cupcake into fourths and Yield: 13 servings lightly blend the pieces into the milkshake.

Baker’s Note: If you like a more chunky shake, simply mash the cupcake into the Lavender shake with a spoon or fork. Lemonade Lemon Frosting 1 cup butter Ingredients Ingredients 2-½ cups powdered 1 tray ice cubes maraschino cherries (and juice) 1 teaspoon lemon flavor ¼ cup dried lavender 2 cups sugar Ingredients 2-4 tablespoons heavy cream 2 cups boiling water 1 drop yellow food coloring 1/2 cup water vanilla baby cakes mix or other vanilla ¾ cup 4 limes (juice and zest from 3 limes, plus cake mix or recipe 9 lemons one more lime for garnish) raspberry filling 6 cups cold water or to taste Directions 4 teaspoons grated lime zest lemon frosting (recipe below) 1. Using a mixer, cream the butter and club soda, chilled 1/4 cup milk sugar together. Ice Directions 1 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream 2. Add the flavor, the coloring and the 1. Place ice cubes into a pitcher. Place heavy cream. Continue mixing until the lavender into a bowl, and pour blended thoroughly. Directions Directions boiling water over it. Allow to steep 1. Separate the cherries from its juice and for about 10 minutes, then strain out 1. Create the cupcakes according to the heat just the juice, sugar, and water in the lavender with a fine-mesh strainer package or recipe directions. a saucepan over medium heat for about and discard. Stir the sugar into the hot five minutes. Stir in the lime juice lavender water, then pour it into the 2. Once the cupcakes are cooled, fill them and zest. Simmer until the mixture is pitcher. with raspberry filling. slightly thickened, about five minutes. 2. Squeeze the juice from the lemons into 3. Top each cupcake with a swirl of lemon 2. Pour the mixture through a fine-mesh the pitcher. Top off the pitcher with frosting (recipe below). Don’t be afraid strainer set over a bowl, pressing on cold water, and stir. Adjust lemon juice to put a lot of frosting on each one. solids to extract the liquid. You should or sugar if desired. Yield: 6-7 servings

8 9 Part III: Sodas and Floats Strawberry How to Make Lemonade Slush Homemade Soda Pop Fresh is always better. If you have a food Directions When we were kids, we made homemade processor or blender, here is a great way beer with yeast. The yeast created the to convert a couple lemons and a tub 1. Puree the lemon juice, sugar, and, carbon dioxide bubbles in the beverage. of strawberries into a wonderful, fresh strawberries together in a blender or beverage. food processor. Add the food coloring. There is an easier way—dry ice, which you can buy at many grocery stores. With dry ice, 2. Add the ice cubes one at a time and you can carbonate: process until smooth. (If you are using Ingredients - Juice beverages made with frozen a blender, you can remove the round 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice (juice from fruit juice concentrates. handle from the lid and drop the ice about two lemons) cubes in the blender one at a time.) - Kool-Aid® and other beverages (not 1/2 cup granulated sugar Continue adding ice cubes until the unlike many commercial soda pops). 2 cups strawberries mixture is diluted to the desired taste. - Fresh fruit beverages like lemonade, Add more sugar for a sweeter drink. a few drops red food coloring limeade, and strawberry lemonade. ice Baker’s note: If you add enough ice you - Beverages made with syrups. We will have a slush. If you desire a more frozen carry both Torani syrups and snow beverage, place the blender jar in the freezer cone syrups. and in a half hour, scrape the forming crystals from the sides. Repeat if desired. It’s fun to make homemade soda pop! Soda pop is just carbonated punch but you can - The beverage may freeze around a do better than that. Try carbonating your single block of dry ice and greatly favorite lemonade or frozen fruit juice slow carbonation. It is better to have concentrate. several smaller pieces of dry ice in the beverage. To carbonate your beverage, place one to two pounds dry ice for every one gallon of - Once carbonation is nearly complete beverage, directly into the liquid. It is better and the dry ice dissolved, tightly if the dry ice is broken into several pieces, we close your container to retain use a meat hammer. carbonation. If your container is nearly full and with a tight lid, your Lightly cover your container with a lid or beverage will remain carbonated cover that can be easily pushed off be any overnight. pressure building in your vessel. (We use an - You can add more dry ice to increase Igloo brand 5-gallon beverage container with carbonation. a push on/off lid and push the lid only part way down). Allow the dry ice to dissolve to - To carbonate a single glass, Simply carbonate your beverage. add a couple chunks of dry ice—with tongs, don’t touch them—to your glass of beverage. Let the dry ice Tips dissolve completely before drinking. - You may need to stir your - Do not leave your glass unattended beverage two or three times during while the dry ice melts. A child could carbonation. Blocks of dry ice may pick up the glass, try to drink from it, freeze to the bottom of the container. and seriously burn his or her mouth or lips.

12 13 Part IV: Other Summer Drinks Fireworks in a Cup Ginger Peach Sparkling Mocktail Huckleberry Lemon Drink This is the perfect blend of flavors Huckleberry flavor is excellent paired and the ginger adds a nice zing that is with fresh lemon. Kelli, our test kitchen balanced with the sweet taste of peach cook, picked the you see flavor. in the picture in the mountains and they were a great addition to the drink. Sparkling Mango Ingredients 2 cups water Ingredients Mint Drink 1 cup sugar 1-½ cups lemon-lime soda ½ cup ginger, peeled and grated 1-½ Tablespoons freshly squeezed This is a favorite drink, and it was one lemon juice of the most simple to make. Mint makes club soda Ingredients ¼ cup Torani Huckleberry Syrup such a great addition to a variety of Torani Peach Syrup sparkling drinks. If I had to describe ½ cup blue Gatorade Fresh lemon and huckleberries for ½ cup white, pina colada flavored Sobe Peach for garnish (optional) garnish this drink in one word, it would be “refreshing.” ½ cup cranberry juice Ice (optional) ¼ cup ice cubes (use star-shaped ice Directions Ingredients cube tray) Directions Red or blue Pop Rocks 1. In each serving glass, add 1-½ ¼ cup Torani Mango Syrup 1. In a medium saucepan combine the Tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon 3 mint leaves (plus more for garnish) water, sugar and ginger. Bring the juice, ¼ cup huckleberry syrup and 8 oz club soda Directions mixture to a boil and then remove the 1-½ cups lemon lime soda. pot from the heat. Allow to cool to Ice (optional) 1. Pour the Pop Rocks onto a plate. Wet room temperature. 2. Garnish with huckleberries and lemon the rim of the glass with a little water slices. Yield: 1 serving and dip the rim into the Pop Rocks so 2. Strain the liquid to remove the pieces Directions they stick. of ginger. Chill the mixture. 1. In each serving glass, place 3 crushed 2. Carefully pour the cranberry juice in 3. For each drink serving, pour ¼ cup of mint leaves in the bottom. the bottom of a glass. Make sure the the ginger syrup created above, 8 oz drink with the highest sugar content is of club soda and ¼ cup of the peach 2. Pour the mango syrup, club soda and on the bottom. Add the ice. syrup. Garnish the glass with a slice of additional mint leaves for garnish peach. Yield: 6-8 drinks in each glass. Stir and serve. Yield: 1 3. Then add the pina colada Sobe, or the serving drink with the second highest sugar content. Pour slowly and carefully Baker’s Note: For a fancier look, so it doesn’t mix too much with the sugar the rim of the glass. To do this cranberry juice. wet the rim of the empty glass and rub it upside down on a plate of granulated 4. Slowly add the Gatorade, or the drink sugar. Let it dry and be careful when with the lowest sugar content. Enjoy! Yield: one glass pouring in the beverage, not to wash the sugar off.

18 19