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
Citrus & lemonade
Virgin mojito slush
Lime and fresh mint without the rum — the alcohol-free twin of our frozen mojito.
- Batch
- about 1.52 litres
- Serves
- 6 × 253 ml
- Setting
- Ninja SLUSHi: Slush · Tower Slushie Fusion: Slush
Make this one first if you are serving both: it uses the same mint syrup as the frozen mojito, and it means the alcohol-free batch is ready before any rum comes out.
Ingredients
- 120 ml lime juice
- 200 ml mint sugar syrup (120 g sugar and 120 ml water, simmered with a handful of mint, cooled and strained)
- 1.2 litres cold water or soda water
Allergens to watch: None of the 14 regulated allergens. Always check the labels of the brands you use.
Method
- Make the mint syrup: simmer the sugar and water until dissolved, add the mint, leave to cool, then strain.
- Mix the syrup, lime juice and water.
- Chill, then pour into the machine below the maximum fill line.
- Run the Slush setting.
Sugar check
120 g of sugar in about 1,520 ml is roughly 7.9 g per 100 ml.
Tips
- Soda water loses its fizz in the machine — still water works just as well.
- Chill everything in the fridge first. Makers say the time to slush depends on how cold the ingredients are to start with.
Sources for the rules we followed
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Photo: Entheta, CC BY-SA 3.0
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The simplest slush there is: pour in a full-sugar cola and press start. Diet cola won’t work — here’s why.