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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

  • Frozen Hot Chocolate

    Frozen Hot Chocolate

    Ingredients 1 5 oz can full fat coconut milk 3/4 cup milk (I used unsweetened almond) 1 Tablespoon sugar 1 1/2 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa 1/2 cup sweetened coconut…

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  • Green Tea Lime Pie Smoothie Bowl

    Green Tea Lime Pie Smoothie Bowl

    Enjoy the tropical flavours of lime, coconut, banana, and avocado with some baby spinach and Matcha green tea powder thrown in for an extra boost. The flavour reminds…

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  • Watermelon Balsamic Snoothie

    Watermelon Balsamic Snoothie

    Ingredients 3 oz vodka 1/2 oz lime juice 1 oz simple syrup (1 to 1, sugar to water) 1/2 oz balsamic vinegar 2 cups watermelon cut into 1-inch…

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  • Piña Colada

    Piña Colada

    Craving a getaway? Us too. It’s summer and all we want to do is hit the beach and catch some rays. Right?! Unfortunately, most of us are stuck…

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  • Tropical Mango Smoothie Bowl

    Tropical Mango Smoothie Bowl

    Ingredients For the smoothie 1/2 cup frozen mango 1/2 cup frozen pineapple 1/2 frozen banana* 1/3 cup coconut water Toppings 1/4 cup chopped fresh pineapple 2 Tablespooms pomegranate…

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  • Banana Cream Pie Smoothie

    Frozen bananas, graham cracker crumbs, and vanilla extract are a few of the ingredients that make this smoothie a rich dessert in a glass. Because it calls for…

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  • Strawberry Lemonade Smoothie

    We love the perfect blend of sweet and citrus in this refreshing smoothie. It’s so easy to throw together, I often find myself making one for breakfast or…

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  • Milky Mango

    Milk this mango smoothie for all it’s worth. This palate-pleasing drink goes down fast and it goes down good. If there aren’t any mangoes available, opt for papaya,…

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  • Quick Watermelon Cooler

    Summer means cooling off with a slice of watermelon and a glass of cold lemonade. This combines two favorites in one. Ingredients 2 cups lemonade 3 cups seedless…

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  • Raspberry Lemonade Smoothie

    Raspberry Lemonade Smoothie

    Sweet teeth, man. Why do they have to exist? Mine is a doozy, too. And for some reason, when summer rolls around, it goes into overdrive – all…

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