Vampire Clot Punch Recipe for Halloween

Ingredients:

4 cups grape juice
2 cups orange juice
2 cups pineapple juice
1 bottle soda water
300 gram frozen strawberries

Preparation:

Chill all ingredients ahead of time to prevent diluting the punch with melting ice later on.
Mix together the grape, orange and pineapple juices.

Just before serving, add in the soda water and the strawberries.

Guava Juice Recipe

Guava Juice Recipe

Ingredients:

1) 2 cups Guava (cut in to small pieces)
2) 6 cups water
3) ½ cup sugar
4) 1 tsp salt

Instructions:

Put guava and water in a blender, blend well.
Transfer the mixture in a pot and heat over medium high heat.
Add sugar and salt.
Once it is boiled then it is done.
Let it cool down.
Serve with ice or drink it just like that.

Read about health benefits of guava here.

Banana Smoothie

2 banana
1 cup milk
1 cup vanilla ice cream
2 tablespoons sugar

Combine all ingredients in a blender.
Process until smooth.
Serve immediately.

Coconut and lime cream

Ingredients :
250ml milk
250ml coconut milk
1 lime
3 egg yolkss
60g sugar
1 sachet vanilla sugar or teaspoon vanilla essence
1/4 teaspoon cornflour
1 tablespoon rum
2 blocks gelatine


Recipe :
Dissolve the gelatine in cold water.
Wash and dry the lime, finely grate zest.
Whsik the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla, in a bowl until the mixture is white and stiff.
Bring milk to the boil.
Add the cornflour and hot milk, whisking slowly.
Pour mixture into saucepan.
Heat, but do not boil until mixture is creamy.
Remove from heat and add lime zest.
Cover and leave to simmer.
Strain the gelatine and heat, with a tablespoon of water.
Once it has completely dissolved, add coconut milk and rum and stir.
Put into individual pots and chill for 2 hours before serving.


Advice :
This dessert goes very well with a cup of tea.

Spiced Tea Ice

Ingredients:

4 bags of your favorite tea
1/2 cup (4 oz) sugar
1 cup (8 floz) water
1 stick cinnammon
6 whole cloves
3 cardamom pods (optional)
2 tbsp tea leaves
4 cups (32 floz) boiling water
juice of 1 large lemon and 2 oranges
ice cubes
iced water or soda water (club soda) to taste
orange and lemon slices to decorate


Method:

1. Boil the sugar, water and spices for 5 mins, then remove from heat. Put the tea bags in a large pot and pour the boiling water over, leave for 5 mins.

2. Strain into large bowl, add the strained syrup and leave to cool. Stir in the strained lemon and orange juice, then add ice cubes and dilute with iced water or club soda to taste. Decorate with slices of orange or lemon.

Serves: 8-10

Orange and Banana Smoothie

1 large banana
2 large oranges
7 ice cubes
small amount of water (if required)

Break the banana up into small pieces and put into the smoothie maker. Squeeze the oranges until they are soft and then peel and squeeze out the orange, including juice. Put the ice cubes in. Then turn the smoothie maker on, you will hear the ice crackling, when you can't hear it any more it means the smoothie is almost ready (usually after 30-45 seconds). Stop the smoothie maker, then check the smoothie, if it is too thick you may want to add some water and smooth for a bit longer otherwise you are ready to drink.
Pour out the smoothie into a glass and enjoy!

Tropical Five Fruit Smoothie

This super fruity smoothie will give you your five a day all in one if you're feeling hungry, also great for sharing with a friend. You will need:

1 large fairtrade banana
2 kiwi fruit
1/2 medium fairtrade mango
1/2 medium papaya
300ml fairtrade orange juice
3-5 ice cubes


Peel and chop up the banana, peel and quarter the kiwis, peel and dice the papaya and mango. Add all the ingredients to the smoothiemaker and pour in the orange juice and ice cubes. Whizz until smooth. Serves 1-2.

Carrot Smoothie

Ingredients:

1 cup carrot juice
1 cup vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated ginger
4 ice cubes
pinch of salt

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a blender, and puree until smooth. Serve immediately.

Oreo Milk Shake

Ingredients:

12 OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

1-1/2 cups milk

1 pt. (2 cups) vanilla ice cream, softened

2 Tbsp. chocolate syrup


Method:

CHOP or coarsely break cookies.

PLACE milk, ice cream and chocolate syrup in blender container. Add chopped cookies; cover. Blend on high speed until smooth.

POUR into 4 glasses. Serve immediately.