Drinks and Smoothies | The Recipe Mom

1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
3 to 4 cups cold water

Start by making a ‘simple syrup’ by combining the sugar and water in a heavy saucepan, heat to boiling, then turn down and simmer until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture looks ‘syrupy.’
Squeeze enough lemons to get 1 cup of juice (about 6 or so should do it.)
Pour the juice in a pitcher and add the syrup.
Pour in 3 cups cold water, taste and pour if more if desired.
Put in refrigerator and chill for at least 30 minutes before serving.
Transport to picnic in closed pitcher and bring ice to pour over in each glass. Bring lemon slices for garnish if you wish.

Fruity Trix Smoothies

What You Need:

6 (8 oz.) containers of vanilla yogurt
3/4 C of orange juice
3 bananas
3 C of frozen whole strawberries
Trix cereal, crushed

How to Make It:

In a blender put the yogurt and orange juice and stir just to incorporate into the yogurt.
Break each banana into chunks and put in the blender.
The strawberries are added to the blender.
Cover the blender and blend the mixture until smooth and creamy.
The mixture is poured into glasses and the crushed cereal is put on top.

Makes 10 servings

Kids will love this healthy drink at their New Years Eve party. It not as time consuming as making punch or as cold as a milk shake. Top these drinks with miniature chocolate chips or cut up fruit for a different taste.

Preparation Time: approximately 15 minutes
Total Time: approximately 15 minutes

Nutritional Information per 1 C serving: (approximate values)
Calories 230; fat 2 g; sodium 90 mg; carbohydrates 47 g; sugar 38 g; protein 8 g

Apple Cinnamon Party Tea

What You Need:

6 C of water
5 cinnamon apple spice tea bags
1 (6 oz.) can orange juice concentrate, thawed
1/2 C of honey

How to Make It:

Pour the water into a saucepan and add the tea bags.
Place the pan over medium high heat and bring the water to a boil.
Take the pan from the heat and allow the tea to stand for 5 minutes.
Remove and discard the tea bags.
Add the orange juice and stir until blended in well.
Whisk in the honey until it has completely melted.

Makes 10 servings

To make this tea a little more festive, add cinnamon sticks or oranges slices to each cup before serving. It’s a wonderful way to keep the kids warm and toasty while they celebrate the coming of a new year.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Steeping Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Nutritional Information per cup: (approximate values)
Calories 80; fat 0 g; sodium 0 mg; carbohydrates 21 g; sugar 20 g; protein 0 g

Orange Cranberry Yuletide Tea

What You Need:

4 quarts of water
1 1/2 C of sugar
6 cinnamon sticks
8 C of cranberry juice
4 C of orange juice
1/3 C of lemon juice

How to Make It:

Pour the water into a Dutch oven pan and place over low heat.
Add the sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
Add in the cinnamon sticks and adjust the heat to high.
Bring the water mixture to a quick boil then reduce the heat to low.
Cover the pan and simmer 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove the cinnamon sticks and discard.
Stir in the cranberry, orange, and lemon juices until well blended.
Serve warm with a cinnamon stick and a slice of orange or lemon in each cup.

Makes 32 servings

Preparation Time: approximately 5 minutes
Cooking Time: approximately 25 minutes
Total Time: approximately 30 minutes

A warm cup of tea will liven up your Christmas celebration. The bit of citrus in this cinnamon laced cranberry tea gives it a little spark. Pour it into a crock pot on low temperature to keep the tea warm and tasty all day long.

Holiday Citrus Christmas Punch

What You Need:

4 maraschino cherries
1 orange, sliced thin
1 lemon, slice thin
1 lime, sliced thin
2 3/4 C of water, divided
1 (12 oz.) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
1 (12 oz.) can frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
1 (12 oz.) can frozen pineapple orange concentrate, thawed
2 liters ginger ale, chilled

How to Make It:

Layer the cherries, orange, lemon and lime slices into a ring mold.
Add enough of the water to the mold to fill 2/3 full.
Place the mold in the freezer and freeze until solid.
Place the remaining water into a punch bowl.
Blend in the lemonade, limeade and pineapple orange concentrates.
Pour the ginger ale into the bowl and stir to combine.
Place the fruit ice ring in the punch fruit side up.

Makes 24 servings

This punch is tasty and a colorful addition to your Christmas buffet. Pineapple rings or chunks may also be added to the fruit ice ring.

Strawberry Pineapple Citrus Punch

punch What You Need:

1 1/2 C of sugar
8 quarts of water, divided
4 (.14 oz.) pkgs. unsweetened strawberry drink mix
3 (6 oz.) cans frozen orange juice, thawed
2 1/4 C frozen lemonade concentrate
2 (46 oz.) cans unsweetened pineapple juice
2 liters of ginger ale

How to Make It:

In a large saucepan over medium heat put the sugar and 2 quarts of the water.
Cook until the sugar is completely melted, stirring constantly.
Take from the heat and add the strawberry drink mix.
Cool the mixture to room temperature.
Put the mixture in a large punch bowl to serve.
Stir the orange juice and lemonade into the strawberry mixture until well combined.
Stir in the pineapple juice and remaining water.
Pour the ginger ale into the punch and stir slightly to combine.

Makes 3 gallons

This is a quick and easy drink to serve on your Christmas buffet. The kids will love the taste.

Scary Spider Punch

What You Need:

12 gummy spiders
1 vinyl glove
1 gallon green fruit punch, chilled
2 (1 liter bottles) ginger ale
1 qt raspberry sherbet

How to Make It:

Fill an ice cube tray 2/3 full of water.
Gently place a gummy spider into each of the ice cube tray compartments.
Put in freezer until completely frozen.
Fill the vinyl glove 2/3 full of water and tie the opening closed tightly.
Freeze the glove until solid.
Place the fruit punch and ginger ale into a punch bowl.
Fold in the raspberry sherbet.
Add the frozen spider cubes and lay the frozen hand in the middle of the punch bowl.

Kids love the taste and the scary aspect of this punch. You can use any type of fruit punch you like and lemon lime soda can be used instead of the ginger ale.

Makes 32 servings

Preparation Time: approximately 10 minutes
Freezing Time: approximately 4 hours
Total Time: approximately 4 hours 10 minutes

Wiggle Eye Hot Cocoa

What You Need:

8 C of milk, divided
1 C mint chocolate chips
1 C instant hot cocoa mix
16 large marshmallows
16 Crows candies
16 lollipop sticks

How to Make It:

In a large saucepan over low heat pour 1 C of the milk.
Add the mint chocolate chips.
Stir in the hot cocoa mix until blended in well.
Cook 5 minutes or until chips are completely melted, stirring frequently.
Stir in the remaining milk and blend well.
Cook until the milk is hot about 5 minutes.
In the top of each marshmallow cut a small slit.
Place a Crow candy into each of the marshmallow slits.
In the bottom of each marshmallow insert a lollipop stick.
Divide the hot cocoa between 8 mugs and place 2 wiggle eyes into each cup before serving.

A cup of hot cocoa can really hit the spot on a cold gloomy night. Everybody will get a kick out of these wiggly eyed cups of warmth.

Makes 8 servings

Preparation Time: approximately 10 minutes
Cooking Time: approximately 10 minutes
Total Time: approximately 20 minutes

Nutritious Berry Blitz

Ingredients:

1 1/2 C fresh or frozen blueberries
2 C of vanilla yogurt
1/2 large banana
2 T honey

How to Cook It:

Place the blueberries and yogurt into the blender.
Cut the banana in chunks and add to the blender.
Puree until the mixture becomes smooth and creamy.
Add the honey and blend just long enough for the honey to mix in.

Frozen blueberries are just as nutritious as fresh blueberries. You may use fresh blueberries instead of frozen ones if you prefer. Adjust the honey to your taste or use lemon juice if you prefer a little bite.

Energy Building Breakfast Drink

Ingredients:

1 T of fine oatmeal
1 C of milk
1/4 C of seedless raisins
1 small ripe banana
1 t honey

How to Cook It:

In a small saucepan over medium heat put the oatmeal.
Stir in the milk.
Stirring occasionally bring the mixture to almost boiling.
Once boiling, remove from the heat and pour into the blender.
Add in the raisins and banana.
Pour the honey over all the other ingredients.
Blend just until smooth.

This is guaranteed to get your body up and going. The milk might form a skin when heating. If it does don’t skim it off. This skin contains valuable nutrients that will help the body to build energy.

Makes 2 servings

Preparation Time: approximately 12 minutes
Total Time: approximately 12 minutes

Good Old Fashioned Lemonade

Fruity Trix Smoothies

Apple Cinnamon Party Tea

Orange Cranberry Yuletide Tea

Holiday Citrus Christmas Punch

Strawberry Pineapple Citrus Punch

Scary Spider Punch

Wiggle Eye Hot Cocoa

Nutritious Berry Blitz

Energy Building Breakfast Drink

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