Night Blossoms

For William's birthday, he went through my cookbooks and picked some recipes for us to try. One recipe was for Night Blossoms, which is a slushy, fruity drink with popping boba pearls.

Night Blossoms

Ingredients:

• 4 cups limeade
• 1 container apple juice concentrate
• 1 cup watermelon juice
• 1 cup strawberry nectar
• 2 cups lime sherbet
• 1/2 cup lemon-lime soda
• 1 container passion fruit boba balls

Directions:

1. Mix together limeade, apple juice concentrate, watermelon juice and strawberry nectar.
2. Pour half of the mixture into an ice cream maker (unless your maker can hold the entire batch all at once), and run the maker until mixture is slushy.
3. Pour an equal portion of slush into each cup (a large, maybe 20 oz cup), making five portions total.
4. Place cups in freezer.
5. Pour the rest of the juice mixture into the ice cream maker and being freezing into more slush.
6. In the meantime, in a blender, blend lime sherbet and lemon-lime soda until smooth.
7. Pour equal portions of ice cream mixture into each of the five cups and return to the freezer.
8. When the rest of the slush is ready, divide the mixture up evenly between the five cups and return them to the freezer until ready to serve (not meant to be completely frozen, so do not leave in the freeze for more than a few minutes... probably no more than 30 minutes total or your drink could get too frozen).
9. When ready to serve, top each glass with 1/5 of the boba pearls in the container.

Here are some pictures of some of the more unusual ingredients I used to help you find them in your stores. I ordered my boba off Amazon, but found all the rest at my local grocery store. The strawberry nectar was in with the Latin/Mexican foods.