Frozen Cocktail Recipes That Are Good For You
Is there anything better than a frozen drink on a hot sunny day while lounging at the pool? It just screams: SUMMER! But did you ever read the label on some of those drink mixes (high fructose corn syrup, yellow 5, blue 1, etc.) Yuck! I think I found my dietitian mission: to create a healthy, great tasting frozen cocktail without all the unnecessary artificial colors, flavors and sugar. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it…
Summertime is the perfect time to enjoy blueberries, strawberries, peaches and mangos, but sometimes you just can’t finish what you bought at the store or farmer’s market. For years, I’ve been freezing my leftover fresh fruit to use in yogurt smoothies, but until recently, I never tried using frozen fruit in my cocktails.
Strawberry Peach Daiquiri
To freeze your own fruit, make sure to wash thoroughly and then pat dry the excess water with a paper towel. If it has a peel like peaches, remove the skin and slice into wedges. Lay on a flat surface for about an hour then put into a tightly sealed Ziploc bag and save in your freezer until you are ready to use.
Frozen Mojito
When my favorite fresh fruit is out of stock or out of season, I run over to the frozen food aisle. Frozen fruit is packed at the peak of freshness and retains more nutrients than many of those fruits sitting around the fresh fruit aisle.
Who knew a Strawberry Daiquiri can be (a little) good for you?
Whether you start fresh or frozen, your favorite drink is never more than a blender away. In moderation, alcohol can lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes and many of your favorite fruits like kiwi, blueberry, raspberry and strawberry are rich in antioxidants and other important nutrients.
The best part of a frozen cocktail is they take longer to drink and provide natural fiber from the fruit that will fill you up and keep you from overeating and over drinking your calories. So reach out and grab that bottle of rum gathering dust in your liquor cabinet and start trying some of these delicious fresh fruit cocktail recipes.
Frozen Margarita (Mango)
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Watermelon Margarita is the best frozen drink I know of!
We are a non alcoholic household but we do love a good smoothie cocktail. Best of all is use a base of frozen banana chunks. When blended give it a smooth creamy texture.
I always enjoy a good strawberry daiquiri, or a strawberry-raspberry blend.
Ooooh, Mojitos are definitely my favorite frozen cocktail. Followed shortly by Peach Margaritas
my favorite drink is a frozen mango/strawberry margarita
I don’t drink alcohol…so my favorite would have to be a strawberry smoothie…perfect on a hot, summer day!
Strawberry Daiquiri sounds just great to me right now. I would love to grow mushrooms.
Our favorite is mixing frozen mango and pineapple… We keep the fruit frozen to use as our ice.
Mint Julips and strawberry daiquiris.
Raspberry Margarita!!
Berry smoothies are always a hit with the kids, & for extra richness, add avocado or tahini! Thanks for your blog.
MY FAVORITE WILL BE , MOJITO BY FARRRRR!
I love Peach Daiquiris! I had them on vacation once, and fell in love with them.
I make an awesome frosty pina colada and I keep it in the upper right corner of my fridge which freezes anything so we can still enjoy the frosty goodness at Shabbos lunch.
Would love to know more about this one, can you post the recipe on the site.
I love frozen strawberry mojitos.
Raspberry daiquiri! Mmm…
My Favorite frozen drink is a Mudslide with Kahlua YUM!
I love frozen peach coladas – peach and coconut. Yum!
Alcoholic drink would be an Alaskan Orange and non-alcoholic would be a Triple Berry Yogurt Smoothie
Pina Colada, best frozen cocktail with fresh pineapple. My personal favorite.
banana blackberry Daiquiris
I dont like alchahol but a bananna smoothie sounds good!
I like strawberry margaritas with fresh strawberries!
Love Mango Margaritas–with or without the alcohol–YUM!
I don’t like to use alcohol but my family loves banana-orange-strawberry smoothies. Sometimes, we vary it and make shakes with vanilla ice cream instead.
I use fruit juice such as pineapple, grape or apple and add frozen blueberries to make our frozen fruit smoothies. Sometimes I add a banana for a little different flavor. We love blueberries and this is the easiest way to enjoy them, besides eating them fresh. I would love the strawberry and peach smoothie. I am going to try that one next.
I like a simple Strawberry Daiquiri.
STRAWBERRY DAIQUIRI
My favorite frozen cocktail is a strawberry daiquiri, but I realize I haven’t really had any except that or margaritas. I need to branch out while the weather is warm!
My favorite is Strawberry Daiquiri
My favorite is a Frozen Key Lime Cocktail
1 oz white rum
1/2 oz dark rum
1 1/2 oz lime juice
3 tbsp vanilla ice cream
Blend briefly with half a glassful of crushed ice in a wine goblet. Garnish with a slice of lime and a cherry, and serve. Makes one.
I never would have thought to mix lime and vanilla ice cream together, sounds fun. FYI, it is best to post recipes on the site so they appear in our database and are searchable.
I love margaritas and mojitos – anything lime.
I would adore a frozen mixed berry smoothie containing blueberries, strawberries and raspberries.
strawberry daiquiri for my wife and i sounds great.
Mojito’s!!!!
banana daiquiri
My favorite frozen drink is a vanilla pear daiquiri.
Hi Deborah, would love to see this recipe – can you post it for us. Sounds amazing and great for the fall.
Very boring – don’t go for alcohol but my family likes anything in the lemon/lime-ade frozen department! I love to dip the glass in the juice and then sugar so that it sticks to the rim. My guests really enjoy when I serve in sugar-coated glasses.
strawberry-mango daiquiri. not original, but so refreshing.
I love the frozen mojitos!
I also love this contest. Thanks for the chance to win
I love lime margaritas and that one someone posted with the ice cream sounds really good. I definitely want to try that.
Anything with mango and/or pineapple is my favorite!
My husband makes the best frozen lemon drops. Puckers you right up but boy are they coool.
As a foodhistorian, I am certain that chokecherries were often used to make syrups for ices during the mid to late 1800′s. Simply cook berries to a pulp, strain, add 1 cup sugar per cup of juice, cook until thickened. The syrup is then added to crushed ice- I add a little fruit liquor ( any kind on hand) and enjoy my chokecherry cocktail.
I love mojitos! Refreshing on a hot day.
I like frozen limeade.
Thanks for the contest.
Mmmm! Wow I do love a frozen coctail especially on those hot Summer days! A fruity one is especially refreshing! I have a few favorites but I am going to go with a Peachy Mango frozen Margarita! It is great with a couple blueberries thrown in too! A Zesty Lime-Apricot can really hit the spot too, and of course a creamy Banana Daquri is hard to say no to. Pina Coladas always bring me back to Carribean vacations and lying on a beach or a boat!
I like sangria or a mai tai.
My favorite frozen drink is a frozen iced coffee. Just make your regular iced coffee drink & add 2 to 3 shots of Bailey’s Irish Creme..depending on how strong you want it. Then just add your ice & blend. You can even add sweetened condensed milk to thicken the drink.
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No alcohol, but an orange-banana smoothie with a sprig of mint really hits the spot.
Pina Colada, I love the drink and the song too!
I enjoy frozen margaritas and can’t wait to try the mango variation. I’m also thinking of experimenting with pomegranate too. I love the flavor, and making it frozen would be extra refreshing!
I keep working on perfecting the frozen daiquiri – Can’t say I’m having much success (especially since I don’t follow a recipe) but I AM having fun trying!
frozen Bay Breeze: frozen pineapple, cranberry juice, and coconut rum!
frozen margarita!
Can’t wait to try one of these recipes- isn’t summer great
My favorite is a mudslide but while I’m trying to save calories it’s a strawberry margerita.
pour cran rasberry juice in ice cube tray. blend with bacardi
My favorite summer cocktail is made in batches for a crowd and always makes the party
Devils Margarita!
12 oz frozen limeade (sugar free is fine)
12 oz of beer or ginger ale
12 oz tequilla
add some honey or agave nectar if it is too tart.
Enjoy
Pina colada hands down. Nothing says summer like a tall pina colada with a tiny umbrella. Of course, a strawberry daquiri comes in a close second…
My favorite frozen cocktail is a frozen margarita.
A peach schnapps smoothie:
1 banana
1/2 cup yogurt
12 slices frozen peaches
packets of sweetener to taste (2-4)
2 shots peach (or other) flavored liquor
1 or 2 shots rum or vodka (optional)
ice, if needed (may not if peaches & banana are frozen)
blend vigorously, as the peaches tend to get stuck. Makes two tall glasses or four short ones.
Frozen bourbon slushies!!
My favorite frozen cocktail is the Frozen Prickly Pear Margarita!
Frozen Strawberry Marg!!
Mango Daiquiris. Yum!
Favorite drink is a Pomegranate Margarita.
Ice, tequila, triple sec, Pom juice and lime
Love a frozed strawberry margarita!
My favorite margarita in the whole wide world is one that I first had at the southermost part of the USA – A BLUE MARGARITA.
Recipe follows:
1 teaspoon coarse salt
4 ounces Tequilla
2 ounces Triple Sec
2 ounces freshly-squeezed lime juice
2 ounces blue Curacaco
2 teaspoons superfine sugar
2 (1/4-inch) slices star fruit for garnish (optional)
1 lime, cut into wedges
Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice.
Place Tequilla, Triple Sec, lime juice, blue Curacaco, and sugar in the shaker; shake hard for 30 seconds.
Serve in Margarita Glasses with coarse salt or Margarita Salt on the rims of the glasses. Strain the Blue Margarita into the glasses. Garnish each with a slice of star fruit or a lime wedge.
NOTE: To create a salt-rimmed glass, take a lemon or lime wedge and rub the drinking surface of the glass so it is barely moist. Dip the edge of the glass into coarse or Kosher salt.
This drink will always have you believing that you are sitting by the ocean, listening to the waves roll in, even if you live in a place like Tucson, Arizona like me!!
Shalom!
I really enjoy the taste of pina coladas. The ingredients make a delicious and very yummy drink.
Peach belini use frozen peaches and add sparkling wine, add some sweetner (sugar/splenda blend ) puree in blender til smoothie consistancy may add ice if necessary
My favorite frozen cocktail is easy, nutritious, and it has the kick of an ounce of alcohol! Grin.
1 med. banana
1 cup apple juice
1 cup frozen fruit (my favorite is blackberries)
1 oz. rum
1 cup ice
blend and serve!
My favorite frozen cocktail is a margarita.
I love traditional margaritas with a very salty rim.
OK, everyone is sayin it so it must be true….Pina Coladas are the best!!!
A peach dacquiri is my favorite frozen cocktail.
I Love Strawberry /Peach Daiquiri
My husband’s favorite from New Orleans: Vanilla ice cream, bourbon, vanilla bean & nutmeg all frapped together ~~with or without whipped cream~~ and a fresh cherry on top! I enjoy any fruit combo muddled together with lotsa limes & a little mint shaken with vodka, of course. Strain it if you care to or enjoy the real fruit bits!
pina colada the best
Frozen Mojito, yummmm!!!!!!!!!!
strawberry peach daiquiri. mhum that’s the best
Margarita!
My favorite is frozen margarita.
a peach margarita!
I like Pina Colada’s
pina colodas of course!
I like Strawberry Daiquiris!
I think id have a margarita! .. or a pina colada… or … a daquiri!? yes, all of them please.
I love fuzzy navels.
pina colada
mango margarita
Mojito’s for everyone!!
I like frozen strawberry margaritas with REAL strawberries!
Razzberries, blackberries, blueberries (all heated, then cooled and frozen) added to rum and a slash of ginger ale. Oh no, now I need to go make one!
Frozen Margarita sounds good.
margaritas just a plain one. However the best tip I ever found was to add a shot of brandy to it. Really enriches the taste.
Thanks for the chance. I have been wanting to grow mushrooms for years.
I have always loved pina coladas.
Frozen Margarita’s
Frozen Mojito..please..Reminds me of summertime:)
There isn’t a lick of fruit in it, but the Mud Slide is amazing!
margaritas
I love frozen margaritas
My favorite cocktail is Sex On The Beach.
Well the best tasting cocktail to me is a Pina Colada, wow are those amazing!
Strawberry Margarita. Yum!