{"id":927,"date":"2015-10-04T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2015-10-04T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:00:27","slug":"home-slushy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thetravelingzipperhead.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Home slushy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMy little guy loves a slushy from Sonic, and really, who DOESN’T?  I mean, they are delicious, and you can get them in so many flavors. They have a lot of sugar though.  I believe the actual amount is labeled “a crap ton”. I worked at sonic in high school and remember making them, I won’t go into how they were mixed in a large garbage with eight bags of sugar and you had to stick your arm in up to your armpit to stir it.  They don’t do that anymore I don’t think. And if they do….. It hasn’t deterred me one bit from them.  There is nothing better on a hot summer day than a watermelon slushy. Or cherry.<\/p>\n

My little guy has figured out that whatever he wants to eat, I can make. It’s both flattering and exhausting, but the challenges are fun. I’ve made Lego gummies, s’mores with fondant instead of a marshmallow (this actually worked really well) a cake in the shape of a lion for “international lion day”. This proved that I can make it, but I can’t really make it pretty, when I showed it to my mom and she asked if my four year old frosted it. <\/p>\n

It was only a matter of time until I was asked to make a slushy. <\/p>\n

I broke down what it was, (sugar, water, coloring, and flavor) so why not? I just needed to freeze it. Then it dawned on me, the ice cream maker!<\/p>\n

So I started with a simple syrup:<\/p>\n

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\nAdded some color and flavor:<\/p>\n

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\nThen let it cool: (I wanted to keep dust out of it)<\/p>\n

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\n After this cooled some, I poured it into a container and stuck it in the fridge until it was time to freeze. <\/p>\n

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\nI went on about my night doing dishes, etc and honestly I wasn’t holding out too much hope until I peeked in and saw that it was working. And working well! Go figure! <\/p>\n

I will say this, I made strawberry flavored by using the flavoring for hard candy, and just a regular simple syrup, but it was sweet. Really sweet. Like, there is no way I’m letting anyone eat this, sweet. I added a little water, lemon juice and a tad bit of salt. It was still too sweet. It tastes good, but it needed more water before I could let anyone eat a whole cup full, but it was already frozen by then. <\/p>\n

So I made one, let every one have two bites, and got rid of it. Next time, less sugar, <\/p>\n

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\nBut it worked!  If you want to make a slush or a frozen margarita…. Keep your ice cream maker handy. It does more than ice cream. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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