Lava Flows

Saturday, March 24, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Ryan and I are still counting down the days until peaches are back in season.... I know... we're a ways off. I really love making fruity little drinks (non-alcoholic, of course), and we became utterly addicted to my Roasted Peach Lemonade recipe last year. Ryan's parents have a wonderful peach tree in their backyard, and they'd send up a couple bag-fulls of beautifully ripe peaches every so often. So many peaches! Luckily we found the peach lemonade recipe to use them all up.

Now, this recipe has absolutely no peaches in it, but it's just as tasty, nonetheless (plus it soothes our wanting taste buds until peach season comes around). The creamy coconut milk was a perfect compliment to the sweetened strawberries. (You can also use fresh strawberries - they're on sale this week).

I've seen these Lava Flows pinned on several Pinterest boards I follow, and wondered if anyone had actually tried it yet. Lucky for us, Ryan handpicked this recipe for us this week (I sometimes open my Dessert board when I'm making my grocery list and have Ryan choose which recipe he'd like to eat that week).

We really loved these, but we were on quite the sugar kick yesterday. They weren't sweet enough, so we added some sugar to our liking. It's totally your preference with the sugar thing, but our sweet tooth is a very needy compared to some. This recipe makes A TON of smoothie, so if you want to slice it in half, you'd still have plenty of drink to go around.

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Lava Flows

Approximate Ingredients:

46 oz pineapple juice
40 oz coco lopez - (coconut milk. can be found at your local latino food market)
1 pint half and half
ice
frozen strawberries in syrup (or fresh strawberries sweetened with sugar)
2 tablespoons water

1. Mix one can pineapple juice and 3 cans coco loco (amounts should be roughly equal).
2. Add half and half to this mixture, until it turns white (approx half a pint).
3. In a blender, puree strawberries in syrup with a bit of water.
4. Pour 1 inch worth of pureed strawberries in each cup.
5. Pour the pineapple/coco loco mixture in the blender with some ice and blend.
6. Fill the remainder of the plastic cup with the coconut mixture."