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Beverages

A drink can refresh, warm, or provide a sweet finish to a meal. This beverage collection includes tea, coffee, hot chocolate, smoothies, milk drinks, and cocktails, with both nonalcoholic and spirited choices. Browse by the temperature, texture, and flavor you have in mind, then choose a recipe for the moment you want to serve it.

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  • Bubble Tea

    Bubble tea pairs a tea-based drink with the distinctive texture of tapioca pearls. This small collection focuses on preparing the drink and bringing its contrasting elements together.

  • Cocktails

    Coffee liqueur, a tomato cooler, and spiked chocolate milk show several directions for a cocktail. These alcoholic drinks offer recipes with contrasting flavors, from savory refreshment to a richer sweet serving.

  • Coffee & Espresso

    Coffee can be served over ice, combined with liqueur, or poured into an affogato. These coffee and espresso preparations bring bitterness, sweetness, and temperature into different balances.

  • Hot Chocolate & Warm Drinks

    Hot chocolate ranges from an ancho-seasoned mix to champurrado and drinks made with Mexican chocolate. Warm milk, cocoa, and contrasting seasonings give this collection its variety of body and flavor.

  • Lemonades, Limeades & Refreshers

    Strawberry, blueberry, cucumber, and mint offer different companions for citrus in these refreshing drinks. Lemonades, limeades, and coolers provide options when you want brightness in the glass.

  • Milk & Specialty Drinks

    Golden milk, horchata, chocolate milk, and warm malted drinks bring different flavors to a milky base. This collection offers smooth drinks served with varying levels of sweetness and spice.

  • Milkshakes & Frozen Drinks

    Mint, chocolate, pretzel, and cherry flavors take a cold milkshake in different directions. These frozen drinks put texture at the center, with recipes that range from simple blends to richer combinations.

  • Smoothies

    Banana, peanut butter, chocolate, and other ingredients give these smoothies their flavor and body. Browse blended drinks for breakfast or another occasion, checking each recipe for its particular ingredients and serving size.

  • Tea

    Tea offers room for both warm infusions and chilled drinks. Ginger with lemon and honey, mint tea, Thai iced tea, and bubble tea provide different approaches to aroma, sweetness, and serving temperature.

In this collection

  • Mint Milkshake

    Mint Milkshake

    Ingredients 3 1/2 cups (840 ml) vanilla oat milk, or milk of choice 2 cups (50 g) baby spinach, loosely packed 30 (10 g) fresh mint leaves 2…

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  • Watermelon Margarita

    Watermelon Margarita

    An easy watermelon margarita recipe that can be served frozen or on the rocks! This skinny margarita is made with fresh fruit and is perfect to make for…

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  • Tequila Sunrise Margarita

    Not just delicious with the flavors of Tequila, Orange Juice and Pomegranate (or Cranberry), this Tequila Sunrise Margarita is beautiful too! Ingredients For the Grenadine (Pomegranate Simple Syrup):…

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  • Frosty Cold Beer-Ritas

    Frosty Cold Beer-Ritas

    This 2-ingredient Beer-Ritas recipe makes a thirst-quenching, frosty mug of lime-y deliciousness – and by nixing the tequila, the alcohol content is a actually little lower. But please,…

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  • Instant Pot Iced Tea

    Once you make Instant Pot Iced Tea you’ll never make it the old-fashioned way again! Make smooth, strong iced tea with minimal effort! Ingredients 3 regular teabags  6…

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  • Easy Homemade Blizzard

    Easy Homemade Blizzard

    Blizzards from Dairy Queen are thick blended ice cream treats filled with your choice of mix-ins, such as cookies or candy. Luckily, you can make this cold treat…

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  • Bloody Mary Mix

    Bloody Marys are a favorite of most every cocktail imbiber since it’s totally acceptable to sip one or two before noon and just think of the powerhouse of…

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  • Bubble Tea

    Bubble Tea

    Ingredients 1/2 cup dried black boba pearls 1 cup honey or 1/2 cup white sugar + 1/2 cup brown sugar 3 black tea bags 2 cups milk or…

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  • Tomato Juice

    Ingredients 46 ounces tomato juice 3 Tablespoons fish sauce 1 Tablespoon Worchestshire sauce 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon MSG Procedure Place all ingredients into…

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  • The Ultimate Homemade Eggnog Recipe

    The Ultimate Homemade Eggnog Recipe

    Rich with cream, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, this homemade holiday eggnog is gently cooked to a measured food-safe temperature, then thoroughly chilled for serving. Recipe Information Prep…

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