

Honestly, whatever gets you through the weekend. Drink it, eat it with a straw, it doesn’t matter. This sits right on the brink between drink and dessert think cream, cherries, syrup, shaved chocolate, with the frozen component coming in the form of ice-cream. While we’re here, let’s push this conceit to its logical conclusion with CKKitchen’s virgin mudslide. Photograph: bhofack2/Getty Images/iStockphoto Virgin mudslide
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Plus – and I’m fully aware that this will repel a lot of you – the strawberry puree is poured over at the end, giving the drink a deeply Instagrammable two-tone look. The addition of the fruit makes this a lot more refreshing than its other ingredients would have you believe. There’s milk in this, too, but also coconut cream, pineapple juice and strawberry puree. If that isn’t enough for you, try the virgin miami vice cocktail from The Spruce Eats. Congratulations on having a much sterner constitution than me in a heatwave. Banana, milk and chocolate syrup, blended with ice and topped with whipped cream. If you’re craving dairy, here’s Somewhat Simple’s recipe for a non-alcoholic dirty monkey. So far these drinks have all been fruit-based. Chunk up a watermelon however you want, hull a few strawberries then blend with ice and top up with sparkling water.

If that’s something you’d rather avoid, you should check out Fit As a Mama Bear’s recipe for fizzy watermelon slushies. So far, these drinks have all required the addition of extra sugar. Photograph: vasiliybudarin/Getty Images/iStockphoto Admittedly you do need a few ice cubes to bulk it out, but the resulting drink – sweetened with maple syrup, but complicated with salt and cayenne pepper – is the exact opposite of a Tango Ice Blast. The citrus components (oranges and lemons) are peeled, sliced into rounds and then frozen. Rachel Gurjar’s citrus slushy, on the other hand, does something slightly ingenious with the ingredients. How could you not? Citrus slushyĪ lot of slushy recipes will have you prepare the base of the drink before blending it with ice. Imagine looking at this in a jug beaded with condensation. The resulting drink is not only sweet but gorgeous to look at. You can make it in seconds: juice three oranges and one and a half lemons, and blend with three handfuls of strawberries and as many ice cubes as you can manage. They’re all worth a try, but for the purposes of this list I’m going to focus on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s strawberry snifter. Four years ago, this newspaper rounded up six food writers and asked them for their favourite cooling drinks.
