Raspapple freezie

Choose a sweet, mellow golden apple variety that will let the raspberries shine.

Ingredients:

6 apples, stalks removed or 500 ml (2 cups) apple juice

300 ml (10 ½ oz) frozen raspberries

Method:

Juice the apples through a juice extractor. Blend the apple juice and frozen raspberries in a blender until smooth. Make 2 large glasses. 

Berry cheesecake slushy

It’s creamy, it’s cold and it’s berry good.

Ingredients:

300 g (10 ½ oz) frozen blueberries

150 g (5 ½ oz) raspberries

200 g (7 oz) vanilla yoghurt

250 ml (1 cup) milk

1 tablespoon wheat germ

Method:

Blend the frozen blueberries in a blender in short bursts until starting to break up. Add the raspberries, yoghurt, milk and wheat germ and blend until smooth. Make 2 large glasses. 

Raspberry and rockmelon freezie

  All work and no play is never a good idea  -  this drink helps factor in a little r’ n’ r.

Ingredients:

300 g (10 ½ oz) frozen raspberries

juice of 1 lime

½ rockmelon (cantaloupe), peeled, seeded and chopped
1 teaspoon honey

Method:

Blend the frozen raspberries with the lime juice in a blender in short bursts until starting to break up. Add the rockmelon and honey and blend until smooth. Make 2 medium glasses.

Tamarind cooler

Mouth-puckeringly tart when consumed straight, a shot of sugar makes tamarind lip-smackingly good.

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons tamarind concentrate

3 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar

20 g (1 cup) mint leaves

12 large ice cubes

Method:

Blend the tamarind, sugar, mint, ice cubes and 250 ml (1 cup) water in a blender until smooth. Make 2 medium glasses. 

Cherrycoco

Okay, so this is not for the dieters, but that’s just the way it is in life.

Ingredients:

400 g (2 cups) cherries, pitted

400 ml (14 fl oz) coconut milk
2 teaspoons caster (superfine) sugar

1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract (essence)

ice cubes, to serve

Method:

Juice the cherries through a juice extractor. Mix well with the coconut milk, sugar and vanilla. Serve over ice. Make 2 small glasses.

Note: You could use vanilla sugar in this recipe – just keep a vanilla bean in a jar of sugar for fragrant sugar.