Dole Pineapple Slushies Plus a Giveaway!

The only time I can do my errands while I’m at work is during lunch break. This means going to the bank, buying a few grocery items, going to the drugstore and what have you under the scorching heat of the sun. Hello ang init lang talaga this summer. Weather reports always report that we’re going to hit 40 degrees soon. If the Northern Hemisphere has a chill factor, we have a heat factor and yesterday I checked my phone and the heat factor was 39 degrees. Ok officially ng nilalagnat ang Manila (at ang taas ng lagnat ha)

After my errands I always buy a sandwich or a quick hot meal for lunch and a cold drink. I usually grab a soda but I have always found fruit shakes to be much more refreshing. And I don’t think you can beat the heat of summer quite like a cold glass of pineapple juice.

Because I was so inspired by our recent Dole Chef Mom project, I decided to do one more treat using Dole pineapples. Sorry to digress but I realize that all these cooking sessions with my fellow mommas is the universe’s way of telling me to go back to the kitchen and to actually cook na (hindi lang puro baking haha) and I’m really glad that I’m doing it with good friends. It does make the learning process so much easier.

But this recipe though does not involve cooking and is a quick and simple way of making a childhood treat right at your home! Remember the ICEE slushies or the Big Burps from convenience stores? These Dole Pineapple Slushies is inspired by the Dole Whips that you can buy from Disneyland. It’s easy for this recipe to be very sweet very easily so please taste the mixture you make it so you can adjust the sweetness level.

Ingredients:

1 432g can Dole Pineapple Tidbits

2 tbsps lemon juice (I bought Dole lemons)

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 cup whipped cream

Tools:

Blender

Zipped Bags

Refrigerator 😛

Instructions:

Put the pineapple tidbits, sugar, and lemon juice in the blender

Blend until the consistency is smooth. Yum. At this stage though, you can adjust the sweetness by putting more or if you want it to be more tart, you can add more lemon juice.

Once everything is good, pour the mixture into zipped bags.

I bought this pack from Hi-Top

The mixture is enough to fill two bags.

Put these bags in the freezer for at least an hour until they’re nice and cool and slushy!

Once they’re slushy, pull them out of the freezer and into a bowl, mix them with the whipped cream

I used 1/3 cup but you can definitely use less. The whipped cream will make the mixture sweeter. If you want you can actually skip this step and just put the whipped cream as a topping when you serve the slushies.

After this step, put the bowl back into freezer to chill.

After a full meal, take out the bowl, serve the slushies and feel the heat melt away. Aaah!!

This is too easy and you can make it, store it and just whip it out when you need to cool down. I can’t wait to make this again in the weekend for family. And I hope you get to enjoy this treat too!

Ay wait, there is one more treat for all of you Manilamommy readers! Do you want to win this Dole-icious gift pack?!

If you do… just follow the mechanics at the Rafflecopter widget 🙂

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Terms:

Raffle period is from May 23 – May 31, 2015 midnight.
Four (4) winners will be drawn via Rafflecopter and will be notified via email.
Winners should reply to my email within one week from notification date. If no reply, another winner will be drawn.
DOLE Philippines will ship the gift basket to each winner.
Open to all Manilamommy readers with a valid Metro Manila delivery address.

Good luck! Have fun! Please don’t forget to tag meee!!! Happy summer guys!

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