Books to Read Based on Your Summer Drink Order: Recipe Edition
Hey guys,
Welcome back to another episode of I Made Lots of Yummy Drinks with @Princessreadsalot and You Must Try Them. This is the summer edition, filled with fruity iced goodness. Be sure to check out the book recommendations part of the post over at @sushirainbow’s blog! For the sake of uniformity, I’m dividing this blog post into two sections - one with Jenny’s recipes, and the other with the drinks I made with the focus more on the creation process and not so much the recipes. So without further ado, scroll and start drooling over these delicious drinks 😂
Drinks Made by @Princessreadsalot
Virgin Piña Colada
Ingredients:
1 cup of frozen pineapple
½ cup of coconut milk
Pineapple wedge for garnish
Steps:
1. Blend pineapple and coconut milk, pour into a cup and top with a pineapple slice, and enjoy!
Iced Campfire Mocha
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons of Milk Chocolate
3 pumps of Toasted Marshmallow Syrup (about 2 oz.)
2 cups of cold brew coffee
1 cup of milk
Toppings: Whipped cream, mini marshmallows, and mini chocolate chips
Steps:
1. Add milk chocolate and marshmallow syrup to a cup and heat (microwave for 30 seconds - more if not melted) and stir.
2. Add cold brew and milk
3. Top with whipped cream, mini marshmallows, and mini chocolate chips and enjoy!
Mochi Matcha Latte
Ingredients:
Matcha powder
Cream and Sweetener
Quick Cook Tapioca Pearls- I used these.
Strawberry Ice Cream Mochi
Steps:
1. Brew 2 cups of matcha and add cream and sweetener. Put in your refrigerator to cool while you prepare your tapioca pearls.
2. Prepare tapioca pearls according to the directions on the package.
3. Add tapioca pearls to cooled matcha.
4. Top with a strawberry ice cream mochi and enjoy!
Gelato Affogato
Ingredients:
Salted Caramel Gelato
3 tablespoons of strong brewed coffee (caramel-flavored is even better)
Whipped Cream
Caramel syrup for drizzle
Steps:
1. Add 2 scoops of gelato to a cup.
2. Pour coffee over gelato.
3. Top with whipped cream and caramel drizzle and enjoy!
Forbidden Fruit Boba Tea
Ingredients:
1 cup of frozen Mango
1 cup of iced tea (I used orange hibiscus.)
1 package of lightly sweetened Instant Boba (I used these.)
Steps:
1. Blend mango and iced tea.
2. Prepare boba according to the package directions and add to the cup.
3. Add mango and tea to the cup.
4. Use a spoon or bubble tea straw to drink and enjoy!
Mint Tea
Ingredients:
Mint tea bag or mint loose tea
Hot Water
Steps:
1. Steep the tea in the hot water, following the instructions on the package and enjoy!
Drinks Made by Me
Blueberry Lemonade
This was such a super easy drink to make. I used this recipe which turned out tasting really yummy! You just need sugar, water, blueberries, lemon juice, and sparkling water. All you have to do is make a simple sugar syrup and add blueberries to the sugar mixture when it’s boiling for a few more minutes. Once the mixture has cooled down, strain the blueberries out of the mixture and mix the syrup with about 1 lemon’s worth of lemon juice and a cup of sparkling water. Mix everything together and enjoy!
*So with the Crystal Ball Frappuchino and the Frappula Frappuchino I didn’t have enough ingredients to make the actual drinks from the Starbucks Secret Menu, so I created them to look like the Starbucks drinks but not taste like them. I’ll include some suggestions on how to recreate the flavours of the drinks though, along with how I visually recreated them.*
Crystal Ball Frappuchino
This was such a fun drink to recreate! This was the Crystal Ball Frappuchino from the Starbucks Secret Menu. The milkshake itself tasted plain because I made it out of milk, ice, and a bit of vanilla extract, but don’t you think it looks gorgeous! I made the teal drizzle for the cup out of corn syrup and food colouring. It didn’t really taste too bad, but I don’t think it helped the drink’s flavour at all. Mixing the food colouring to get this colour was a lot easier than mixing the food colouring for the Frappula Frappuchino so that was nice for me 😂 After I poured the syrup drizzle and milkshake into the cup, I just topped it off with some whipped cream and sprinkles. If you want to recreate this drink, I think you could make the milkshake by steeping any peach tea and blending it with some vanilla ice cream. You could probably also use a sugar syrup dyed with food colouring for the cup drizzle instead of the corn syrup. Here is a recipe I found that you could use to make the peaches whipped cream. Now that peaches are in season, I can’t wait to try making this drink and make it taste as good as I’ve made it look today!
Frappula Frappuchino
Boy oh boy this was a freaking CHALLENGE to recreate. First of all, it took me forever to find the gummy teeth I used as the drink topper, and when I found the teeth, they didn’t have fangs! I had to use my absolute beginner-level skills to Photoshop them into fangs. I also corn syrup and food colouring to make the bloody drizzle inside the cup and to drizzle on top of the whipped cream, just like I did with the Crystal Ball Frappuchino. Making the correct shade of red for the blood took a lot of trial and error, but I’m super proud of the colour I ended up with. The milkshake was, again, just milk, ice, and a tiny bit of vanilla extract, but you could make any milkshake you choose, as long as the colour is white. Or you could have a cherry milkshake to make the drink look a bit more bloody. If I had cherries, I would have made a cherry infused sugar syrup for the cup and whipped cream drizzle. Although, I think I would still probably use some food colouring to get the blood colour right. The cherry syrup would have made the milkshake taste a lot better than it did though. Here is the link for the Starbucks Secret Menu version of this frappuchino so you can try recreating it at home. I’m totally bragging, but I think my version looks a helluva lot cooler than the Starbucks version 😂 I hope y’all appreciate my blood, sweat, and tears 😂
Avocado Smoothie
So in truth, my mom made this for me from a recipe in one of her cookbooks. It was super easy to make, just blend all the ingredients together, top it off with some crushed walnuts, and put it in a pretty glass. I can’t remember exactly what she put into the smoothie aside from almond milk, matcha, an avocado, and of course the walnuts, but I do remember it tasting quite bitter, so I ended up adding a ton of sugar to it 😅 I found a recipe for a Filipino avocado smoothie that sounds delicious and way sweeter than my mom’s version because it’s made with condensed milk. Click here for the link.
This avocado smoothie concludes our list of drinks to enjoy during this sweltering hot summer season! I can’t wait to hear what you guys think and if you try making any of the frappuchinos, I would love to see how they turn out! If you ever make these drinks you can always tag me (@nessas.lair) or @princessreadsalot on Instagram so we can share your delicious creations with the world. Also, if you have any drink recommendations, definitely share them with us in the comments and maybe we’ll include it in our next drink-related post. Click HERE to check out the bookish half of this post over at @sushirainbow’s blog!
Happy chugging and stay cool 😎
