July's Craft Group (Smoothies & Shakes)

July's Craft group was one of the best in Felicita History (and one of the tastiest too) Thanks to Angela- for sharing her recipes and tips with us. And, for making us some delicious smoothies and shakes to try out! We had a great time :) - Lynn Muir

Angela Lee’s Smoothies and Shakes

A few tips!

Smoothies-
1. Always put your liquids in the blender first.
2. You need to keep equal frozen to non-frozen ratio to keep a good consistency.
3. Peaches will give a smoothie a creamy texture and add a lot of vitamin C.
4. Juice concentrate is a great sweetener- 2 tablespoons of any flavor.
5. Use frozen berries so you don’t have to add ice.
6. If need to add more ice or water make sure to add more flavoring.
7. Can add honey to sweeten.
8. Can add veggies, but make sure they are on the bottom so they get the most chopped.
9. If adding spinach use dark berries to hide the green.
10. Concentrates Angela uses the most are grape juice and white grape juice.


Shakes-
1. Very soft ice cream makes better shakes! Leave out for 15-30 mins to soften ice cream. If not soft make sure a little milk is in the bottom of blender.
2. If using strawberries soak in sugar first to sweeten (if you are making shakes we don’t care about calories anymore J )
3. Don’t over blend. The more you blend the runnier it will be.
4. If want to make a malt, just add 2 tablespoons of malt to any shake.

Recipes!

Smoothies-
Strawberry Banana Smoothie:
2-4 T grape juice concentrate
handful of frozen strawberries
half a banana
half handful of frozen peaches
2 T of vanilla yogurt
handful of ice

Berry Spinach Smoothie:
¼ cup grape juice concentrate
2 heaping T of vanilla yogurt
1 handful of spinach
2 small handfuls of frozen blueberries
1 handful of frozen mixed berries
½ banana
½ handful ice
2 T water if too thick

Sore Throat Smoothie:
½ cup ginger ale
2 T orange concentrate
½ cup caned pineapple
handful of ice
2 T vanilla yogurt
½ banana


Shakes-
Strawberry Shake:
1 cup vanilla ice cream
¼ cup milk
1 cup strawberries

Peanut Butter Chocolate Shake:
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
2 heaping T of peanut butter
¼ cup Heresy’s chocolate syrup
(Add ice if want)

Caramel Oreo Shake:
½ cup of milk
2 cups of vanilla ice cream
¼ cup caramel
4 Oreo’s
BLEND
Then add 4 more Oreo’s and blend slightly

Butterscotch Shake:
¼ cup milk
1 cup vanilla ice cream
2 T butterscotch