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Super Indulgent Chocoholic Shake

3 tbsn chocolate fudge topping
500ml (16 fl oz) chilled chocolate milk
125ml (4 fl oz) cream
6 scoops rich chocolate ice cream

Put all ingredients into a blender and whizz until blended. Serve in chilled tall glasses.

Peach Nectar Spider Fluff

600ml (20 fl oz) peach nectar
600ml soda water
4 scoops vanilla icecream
1 peach, sliced

Mix the peach nectar and soda in a jug and divide among 4 glasses. Float a scoop of icecream on the top of each drink and garnish with peach slices. Serve immediately.

Apricot and Bran Breakfast Shake

100g (3 1/2 oz) dried apricots
1 tb oat bran
1 tb honey
2 tb aricot yoghurt
600ml (20 fl oz) milk

Pour enough boiling water over the dried apricots to cover them. Leave them until they are plump and rehydrated, drain. Then, place all ingredients into a blender and whizz until thick and smooth.

Frozen Mandarin Margaritas

1 lime, cut into wedges
salt
ice
60ml (2 fl oz) tequila
60ml cointreau
2 tbsn sugar syrup**
80ml (2 3/4 fl oz) lime juice
125ml (4 fl oz) manadrin juice

Run the lime around the rim of each glass. Put the salt on a plate and turn the glasses upside down in the salt to coat the rims. Put the ice, tequila, cointreau, sugar syrup, lime juice, and mandarin juice in a blender and mix until smooth and pourable. Carefully pour into the glasses and serve immediately
**Sugar syrup – 1 cup sugar mixed with 125ml (4 fl oz) water. Boil together for 5 mins until slightly syrupy.

Mint Daze

1/2c sugar
3 tbsn water
80ml (2 3/4 fl oz) vodka
1/4 c fresh shredded mint leaves
1-2 tbsn lime juice
ice

Put the water and sugar in a pan and stir over low heat until melted. Leave to cool.
Mix together the vodka, mint and lime juice. Add sugar syrup to taste. Fill the glasses with ice and pour the drink over the top.
You can strain out the mint leaves before serving, but the flavour is stronger if they are left in.