Frozen SLUSH Recipes

All Ages

Strawberry Lemonade

Ingredients

• 72 oz lemonade (Simply or Minute Maid — not diet)
• 28 oz strawberry nectar (Kern's — smooth, no pulp)
• 12 oz frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed and undiluted

Pro tip: Bottled nectar makes this a straight pour and keeps seeds well away from the spout. The frozen concentrate handles all the sweetening and doubles the lemon punch on its way through.

All Ages

Blue Raspberry Blast

Ingredients

• 88 oz white grape juice (100%, not a juice cocktail)
• 16 oz frozen white grape concentrate, thawed
• 8 oz lemon juice
• 3 packets unsweetened blue raspberry Kool-Aid

Pro tip: White grape juice brings its own sugar, so the concentrate is all the sweetening this needs. Fair warning: this WILL turn tongues blue. Embrace it. Take photos.

All Ages

Game Day Gatorade

Ingredients

• 96 oz Gatorade (Fruit Punch or Glacier Cherry)
• 16 oz frozen white grape concentrate, thawed

Pro tip: Straight Gatorade is too low in sugar to slush properly — it freezes thin and watery. That splash of concentrate is what turns it into real slush, and you can barely taste it.

All Ages

Pink Lemonade Slush

Ingredients

• 84 oz pink lemonade (Simply or Minute Maid)
• 16 oz frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
• 12 oz grenadine

Pro tip: Grenadine does double duty here — sugar for the freeze plus that deep pink colour. Add one more splash to each cup before you pour for a swirl effect.

All Ages

Cherry Limeade

Ingredients

• 60 oz limeade (Simply or Minute Maid)
• 24 oz black cherry juice (100% juice)
• 16 oz Sprite or 7UP — cane sugar if you can find it
• 12 oz frozen limeade concentrate, thawed

Pro tip: Black cherry beats cherry syrup by a mile — real tartness instead of cough-drop sweet. Drop a maraschino in each cup for the full Sonic drive-in experience.

All Ages

Orange Creamsicle

Ingredients

• 56 oz orange juice (no pulp)
• 20 oz half-and-half
• 20 oz vanilla cream soda
• 16 oz sweetened condensed milk

Pro tip: Sweetened condensed milk replaces the syrup and makes this taste like an actual Creamsicle bar. Run it on the Milkshake preset. Adults will steal this from the kids' side — plan accordingly.

All Ages

Watermelon Wave

Ingredients

• 80 oz bottled watermelon juice (Trader Joe's or WTRMLN WTR)
• 20 oz frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
• 12 oz frozen white grape concentrate, thawed

Pro tip: Buy the watermelon juice already bottled and smooth — this is a straight pour, start to finish. Watermelon is mostly water and barely sweet, so both concentrates are doing real work getting it to freeze at all.

All Ages

Coca-Cola Slush

Ingredients

• 112 oz Coca-Cola (regular — never diet or zero)
• That's it. Just cola.

Pro tip: Real Coke has exactly the sugar this needs, which is why diet versions simply will not freeze. Stir it in the open air for a minute first — knocking the fizz down means far less foam in the machine.

All Ages

Frozen Dole Whip

Ingredients

• 56 oz pineapple juice
• 28 oz cream of coconut (2 cans Coco Lopez)
• 28 oz vanilla ice cream, melted

Pro tip: Cream of coconut is already loaded with sugar, so it sweetens and thickens in one move. Use the Milkshake preset. It is functionally Disney's Dole Whip and your kids will lose their minds.

All Ages

Grape Slush

Ingredients

• 84 oz Welch's 100% grape juice
• 16 oz frozen grape juice concentrate, thawed
• 12 oz Sprite or 7UP

Pro tip: Concentrate instead of syrup keeps the grape flavour dense rather than diluted. That deep purple in a clear cup is a birthday-party favourite every time.

All Ages

Hawaiian Punch Slush

Ingredients

• 88 oz Hawaiian Punch Fruity Red
• 16 oz pineapple juice
• 8 oz frozen pineapple juice concentrate, thawed

Pro tip: Punch is already sweet enough to freeze, so the pineapple concentrate is there for depth, not sugar. Kids already know this flavour — zero convincing required.

21+

Strawberry Daiquiri

Ingredients

• 56 oz strawberry daiquiri mix (Master of Mixes or Finest Call)
• 28 oz white rum
• 16 oz frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
• 12 oz lime juice

~10% ABV. Pro tip: Bottled daiquiri mix pours straight in — smooth, seed-free, machine-safe. The limeade concentrate and the fresh lime are what keep it from tasting like candy.

21+

Frozen Mojito

Ingredients

• 56 oz limeade (Simply or Minute Maid)
• 28 oz white rum
• 16 oz frozen limeade concentrate, thawed
• 12 oz mint syrup (Torani or Monin)

~10% ABV. Pro tip: Bottled mint syrup keeps this a straight pour — real mint flavour with no leaves anywhere near the machine — and it carries the sugar at the same time.

21+

Frozen Mimosa

Ingredients

• 60 oz prosecco or cava (cheap is genuinely fine)
• 40 oz orange juice (no pulp)
• 12 oz frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed

~6% ABV. Pro tip: Orange concentrate replaces the syrup and doubles the orange at the same time. Let the bubbles settle before it goes in or you'll fight foam the whole batch. The ultimate brunch move.

21+

Rum Punch Slush

Ingredients

• 36 oz pineapple juice
• 20 oz dark rum
• 20 oz orange juice (no pulp)
• 15 oz coconut rum
• 12 oz grenadine
• 9 oz frozen pineapple juice concentrate, thawed

~10% ABV. Pro tip: Coconut rum is only 42 proof, so the dark rum is what actually gets you to 10%. Grenadine covers the sugar. Float a little extra dark rum on each glass for presentation.

21+

Mango Margarita

Ingredients

• 48 oz mango nectar (Jumex is perfect)
• 24 oz tequila blanco
• 20 oz fresh lime juice
• 16 oz agave nectar
• 4 oz orange liqueur (Gran Gala or Cointreau)

~10% ABV. Pro tip: Agave is what a real margarita is sweetened with anyway, so this is an upgrade, not a substitute. Rim the glasses with Tajin and lime. This one disappears fastest at parties.

21+

Tequila Sunrise Slush

Ingredients

• 48 oz orange juice (no pulp)
• 28 oz tequila blanco
• 16 oz frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
• 12 oz pineapple juice
• 8 oz grenadine

~10% ABV. Pro tip: Orange concentrate plus grenadine covers all the sugar and makes the orange taste like orange instead of sugar water. Drizzle extra grenadine into each poured glass — it sinks and looks incredible.

21+

Red Sangria Slush

Ingredients

• 50 oz red wine (a fruity table red — Apothic or Barefoot)
• 24 oz orange juice (no pulp)
• 16 oz frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
• 14 oz cranberry juice cocktail
• 8 oz brandy

~9% ABV. Pro tip: Orange concentrate covers the sugar the syrup used to, and it deepens the citrus instead of diluting it. Use a sweet red, garnish with an orange slice. Perfect for autumn and holiday parties.

21+

Blue Hawaiian

Ingredients

• 57 oz pineapple juice
• 19 oz blue curacao
• 18 oz coconut rum (Malibu)
• 18 oz cream of coconut (Coco Lopez)

~7% ABV. Pro tip: Curaçao and Malibu are both low proof, so this one drinks easy and sets up fast. Cream of coconut covers the sugar. The electric blue is a showstopper — pineapple wedge, paper umbrella, done.

21+

Frozen Paloma

Ingredients

• 52 oz grapefruit juice (Ruby Red)
• 28 oz tequila blanco
• 16 oz fresh lime juice
• 16 oz agave nectar

~10% ABV. Pro tip: The sparkling water is gone on purpose — it only dilutes in the machine. Top each poured glass with a splash of Topo Chico instead, so the fizz lands where you taste it.