a late tenth birthday treat

We celebrated our tenth birthday last Tuesday, but saved something special for this week. Eleanor, one of our recipe inventors, has come up with a celebratory smoothie recipe, and we thought we'd share the recipe, complete with a few pictures of Eleanor at work. Over to you, Eleanor...

"So the idea behind this smoothie is to use lots of the different healthy ingredients that we have included in our smoothies over the past 10 years: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and pomegranate, and of course the trusty banana, some apple juice and some orange juice. We also wanted to add a twist by adding the ice cream float, and making the ice cream out of our yoghurt, vanilla bean and honey thickie.

The following recipe makes 2 good sized glasses of smoothie.

• Half a banana (chopped)
• 150ml apple juice (of if you have a juicer you could juice your own)
• 50ml orange juice (squeeze your own or use ours (of course))
• 6 strawberries
• 6 raspberries
• 6 blackberries
• A small handful of blueberries
• The jewels from half a pomegranate (I find the end of a teaspoon works well to get the jewels out)
• 1 bottle of yoghurt, vanilla bean and honey thickie (or good quality vanilla ice cream/frozen yoghurt if you don't have an ice cream maker)

Pour the bottle of YVH into an ice cream maker and switch on until the thickie has frozen. Stir and place it in a freezable container, then pop in the freezer until set.



Put the banana, apple juice, orange juice and berries into a blender (not the pomegranate) and whizz for 30 seconds until smooth. Pour into 2 glasses.



Put a scoop of ice cream on top of each glass, sprinkle with the pomegranate jewels and serve (the candle is optional).

Comments

[Cath]

yum!!!! looks well nice espec with the candle : )

[Ailidh McCall]

Well i definitely agree with cath- yum!!!!!!!
Eleanor is now officially my idol- i salute you for your work!
The candle just tops it off though, doesn't it?