Fruit slushes
Classic cherry slush
The seaside favourite made at home: cherry squash, water and enough sugar to slush properly.
Photo: ShakataGaNai, CC BY-SA 3.0
The recipe shelf
Slush & frozen drink recipes
Our own recipes, sized for a typical 1.9-litre home machine and written to clear the makers’ minimum-sugar rules (Ninja: at least 4% sugar). Frozen cocktails show the mixed strength and UK units, worked out from each ingredient’s ABV and volume.
- Fruit & frozen wine
- Citrus & cocktails
- Kids’ party
- Cola, coffee & shakes
Alcohol-free
Kids’ party
Blue raspberry party slush (glycerol-free)
The bright blue party classic, made with a sugar-based, glycerol-free syrup — the right choice when young children are drinking it.
Photo: Entheta, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cola & fizzy
Cola slush
The simplest slush there is: pour in a full-sugar cola and press start. Diet cola won’t work — here’s why.
Citrus & lemonade
Fresh lemonade slush
Sharp, proper lemonade slush from lemons, sugar and water — no fizz needed.
Photo: André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5
Fruit slushes
Watermelon & lime slush
Blitzed watermelon with lime and a little sugar — summery, pink and properly slushy.
Fruit slushes
Apple & strawberry frozen juice
Just juice and fruit: apple juice with strawberry purée, on the Frozen Juice setting.
Frappés & milkshakes
Iced coffee frappé
Coffee-shop style frozen coffee from strong coffee, milk and sugar, on the Frappé setting.
Frappés & milkshakes
Chocolate milkshake slush
Thick, cold chocolate milkshake made in the slush machine — no ice cream needed.
Photo: Charles Willgren from Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, CC BY 2.0
Fruit slushes
Mango lassi slush
Mango, yoghurt, milk and a hint of cardamom — a creamy frozen lassi on the Milkshake setting.
Photo: JIP, CC BY-SA 4.0
Citrus & lemonade
Virgin mojito slush
Lime and fresh mint without the rum — the alcohol-free twin of our frozen mojito.