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If you’re interested in learning how to make your own home-made iced tea concentrate or are looking to find a Tazo Zen iced tea recipe, simply continue reading to discover a simple iced tea concentrate recipe and an easy to follow Tazo Zen iced tea recipe.

How to make iced tea concentrate:

If you drink iced tea on a regular basis and would appreciate being able to make iced tea at your home, on a frequent basis without having to complete a lot of prep work, it’s well worth learning how to make iced tea concentrate in advance.

Ingredients:

– 15 tea bags
– 8 cups of boiled water
– ice
– a large pitcher

Step by step instructions:

1. Take your 8 cups of boiled water and gently pour all 8 cups of your boiled water into a large pitcher.
2. Select 15 tea bags from your favorite brand and place them into your pitcher.
3. Let your 15 tea bags steep in your pitcher for around 5 minutes. To ensure that the flavor from your chosen tea bags infuses the water in your pitcher.
4. Remove your 15 tea bags and throw them away.
5. Let your pitcher of tea cool down.
6. Pour your pitcher of tea into refrigerator safe, resealable containers, which you’ll be able to use to store your iced tea in your fridge until you need it to create fresh iced tea. Which you’ll be able to dilute from your strong iced tea concentrate.

How to make Tazo Zen iced tea:

Ingredients:

– 2 quarts of water
– 7 Tazo Zen tea bags
– your choice of sweetener as an example once cup of sugar dissolved in one cup of cold water

Step by step instructions:

1. Heat your 2 quarts of water in a saucepan on a medium heat. Bring your saucepan to a simmer.
2. Turn off your element and add your 7 tea bags to your water.
3. Cover your saucepan with a lid and let your tea bags infuse your water for 15 minutes.
4. Place your concentrate in a pitcher and place it in your fridge whilst you prepare your Tazo Zen iced tea’s syrup.
5. In a second saucepan mix once up of plain water with a cup of sugar or honey. Boil the contents of your pot until your sugar of honey has dissolved completely. Pour your mixture into a plastic squeezable ketchup bottle and place it in your fridge.
6. Fill a tall glass halfway up with your iced tea pitcher and add a bit of your syrup which you prepared into your glass. If you’re looking for a bigger drink simply fill 2/3 of your glass with your Tazo Zen iced tea.

After taking a sip of your Tao Zen iced tea you may be surprised at just how close your homemade iced tea tastes to Starbuck’s iced tea as Starbuck’s features Tazo Zen branded iced tea.

So if you love nothing more than quenching your thirst on a hot day with a tall glass of ice tea, you simply can’t go wrong trying out the two recipes listed above!

If you love eating ice cream sundaes on sunny, warm days, simply continue reading to discover a few creative tips for how to create scrumptious homemade ice cream sundaes. As an example, if you continue reading you’ll discover how to make your very own homemade magic shell, which will harden on top of your ice cream. Just like the magic shell syrup, which you can request at a proper ice cream store.

Creative ice cream sundae ideas:

– Use your own homemade magic shell syrup in order to create a hard chocolate shell over your ice cream sundae

Magic shell recipe coconut oil:

1. 1 cup of chocolate chips
2. 3 teaspoons of solid coconut oil

Directions:

1. Pour 1 cup of chocolate chips and 3 tablespoons of solid coconut oil into a small bowl.

2. Microwave your bowl and its contents for 20 seconds. After which you should stop your microwave and stir the contents of your bowl. Once you’ve stirred the contents of your bowl, microwave your small bowl for an extra 20 seconds, before stopping your microwave to stir the ingredients of your small bowl again. Continue this process until your coconut oil and chocolate chips have melted completely.

3. Once your homemade magic shell syrup has cooled down place it on top of your ice cream so that it will set hard.

– Create a traditional banana split

Banana split ingredients:

– 1 medium-sized, ripe banana
– 2 tablespoons of fresh or canned pineapple
– 2 tablespoons of sliced strawberries
– 2 tablespoons of whipped cream
– 1 tablespoon of chopped peanuts
– 1 tablespoon of chocolate syrup
– 2 cherries

Instructions:

1. Place your ripe banana in an oval dessert dish and place your two scoops of ice cream inside your banana. To do this you may need to cut a straight line through your banana.

2. Top off your banana and ice cream with all of the ingredients listed above such as your pineapple, strawberries, whipped cream, chopped peanuts, and chopped peanuts. Make sure to place your two decorative strawberries on the very top of your banana sundae, on top of your whipped cream. To ensure that your banana split sundae is decorative as well as delicious.

If you’re unsure of what flavor ice cream goes well with a traditional banana split sundae, you can’t go wrong opting for either vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream. Both of which compliment a banana sundae.

Create a Neopolitan ice cream sundae:

If you’re the type of individual who can never make up their mind, when it comes time to choose an ice cream flavor, you can go wrong choosing to make a fun Neopolitan ice cream.

Simply scoop a scoop of strawberry ice cream, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a scoop of chocolate ice cream into a dessert bowl and place a wafer on top of one of your ice cream scoops. Before drizzling a bit of chocolate sauce onto your Neopolitan ice cream sundae.

So if you love devouring ice cream and like the idea of making your own homemade sundaes, it’s well worth testing out all 3 homemade ice cream sundae ideas!

If you’re interested in creating a Starbuck’s inspired vanilla rooibos tea latte, you’ve come to the right place. Simply continue reading to discover a simple, easy to follow, vanilla rooibos tea latte recipe to try out. Better yet, this particular recipe will only take you around four minutes to prepare.

Fuss-free vanilla rooibos tea latte recipe:

Ingredients list:

– 1 and 1/2 cups of skim milk or dairy-free milk
– 3/4 cup of water
– 2 rooibos tea bags
– 2 teaspoons of vanilla syrup
– 1/2 a teaspoon of sugar, honey or artificial sweetener
– 1 dash of cinnamon

Instructions:

1. Pour half of your milk into your first mug and the rest of your milk into a second mug. Then place one rooibos tea bag in each of your mugs.

2. Place each of your mugs in your microwave for 1 minute. Making sure to place one mug in your microwave at a time.

3. Next, add half of your water to each of your mugs

4. Microwave each of your mugs for a further minute. Remember to place one mug in your microwave at a time.

5. Add your cinnamon, sugar or artificial sweetener and vanilla syrup, to each of your mugs.

6. Use a spoon to stir the ingredients of both of your mugs.

Alternative vanilla rooibos tea latte recipe:

If you’d like to try a stronger, spicier rooibos tea latte, you may be interested in following the recipe below.

Ingredients:

– 2 vanilla rooibos tea bag
– 6 oz of boiling hot water
– 6 oz of plant-based milk
– 1 pitted date
– 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
– 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract
– freshly ground nutmeg

Instructions:

1. Place a small or medium-sized saucepan on one of your elements and turn your element on to a medium setting.

2. Add your plant milk, your date, your coconut butter, your cinnamon and your vanilla extract to your saucepan.

3. Boil water and fill two mugs with water. Place a vanilla rooibos tea bag into each of your mugs. Leave your tea bags in your mugs to seep for 3 minutes. After which, you can remove your tea bags from your mugs.

4. Next carefully pour the contents of your saucepan into a standard blender.

5. Turn your blender on to a medium setting for 20 seconds. So that your ingredients

6. Now pour some of your blended plant milk into each of your mugs. So that your plant milk mixes with your rooibos tea.

So if you have a craving for vanilla rooibos tea latte, it’s well worth trying out one or both of the fuss-free recipes listed above. As both recipes can be created in just a few minutes and are a lot cheaper to make than if you were to purchase a vanilla rooibos tea latte from an expensive coffee store like Starbucks!

If you’re a huge fan of vanilla rooibos tea lattes, it may be worth trying out both recipes, to see whether you prefer the first recipe which is more a traditional vanilla rooibos tea latte recipes or a more modern, plant milk based vanilla rooibos tea latte.

If you enjoy making yourself or your loved one’s pancakes on a lazy Saturday or Sunday morning, continue reading to discover how to make peanut butter pancakes as well as how to make vegan pancakes.

How to make peanut butter pancakes:

Whether you follow a vegan diet or you’re interested in treating your vegan friends to some scrumptious vegan pancakes, simply continue reading to discover how to make vegan pancakes, from scratch, without using eggs or milk.

How to make vegan pancake mix from scratch without eggs:

Ingredients:

– 1 and 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
– 1 tablespoon of baking powder
– 1 tablespoon of sugar
– 1/4 teaspoon of salt
– 1 cup of soy milk or almond milk
– 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
– 2 tablespoons of water

Directions:

1. In a medium sized bowl mix 1 and 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a medium-sized bowl.

2. Pour your cup of dairy-free soy milk or almond milk, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and 2 tablespoons of water into your dry ingredients.

3. Stir your dry ingredients into your wet ingredients thoroughly.

4. Use butter or oil to grease a medium sized fry pan.

5. Fry each pancake as you normally would.

How to make peanut butter pancakes:

If you’ve never tasted homemade peanut butter pancakes, you don’t know what you’re missing. Simply continue reading to discover how to make your very own peanut butter pancakes.

Ingredients:

– Pancake mix
– 2 tablespoons of sugar
– 1 medium-sized egg
– 1/3 of a cup of your favorite peanut butter
– 5 ounces of milk or dairy-free soy milk or almond milk
– 1/3 of a cup of water
– 1/4 cup of softened butter
– 2 tablespoons of butter

Directions:

1. Place your pancake mix into a medium sized bowl and mix 2 tablespoons of sugar into your pancake mix.

2. In a smaller bowl beat together your 1/3 of a cup of peanut butter, 5 ounces of milk or dairy-free milk and 1/3 of a cup of water.

3. Next mix the contents of your small bowl, into the contents of your large bowl.

4. Finally, fry your pancakes in a frypan which has been greased with a bit of butter or oil.

How to serve your pancakes:

1. Consider purchasing chocolate sauce to cover your pancakes with

While you may enjoy covering your pancakes in maple syrup, if you’re a bit of a chocoholic, you may be interested in purchasing a decadent chocolate sauce in order to coat your peanut butter pancakes or your vegan pancakes in a delicious sauce.

2. Cover your chosen pancakes with a pile of blueberries

If you’re looking for a healthy topping for your pancakes, you can’t go wrong piling blueberries onto your peanut butter pancakes or your vegan pancakes.

3. Place sliced bananas onto your pancakes

If you plan on frying peanut butter pancakes, it’s also a creative idea to place sliced bananas onto your pancakes.

So if you’re in the mood to fry up pancakes, it’s well worth trying out of one of two simply fuss-free pancake recipes listed above.

If you’ve grown fond of Starbucks’ iced green tea and are looking to save yourself some money by cutting down on your Starbucks visit, continue reading to find out how to make your own inexpensive iced green tea.

Instructions: How to make Starbucks iced green tea

Ingredients:

– A 1-gallon pitcher
– 8 Tazo green tea bags
– 14 cups of water
-1 cup of sugar or 1 cup or 1 cup of organic honey

1. Boil 8 Tazo green tea bags in water, in a large saucepan

Boil 4 cups of water in a large saucepan with your 8 Tazo green tea bags for two minutes. As Starbuck uses Tazo branded green tea, to create their iced green tea. So if you want your homemade iced green tea to taste just like Starbucks’ iced green tea it’s well worth trying to get your hands on some Tazo branded green tea bags.

However, if you are unable to find Tazo green tea bags, you can still create a refreshing, mouth-watering iced green tea, using any brand of green tea that you can find at your local grocery store.

2. Remove your saucepan from its element

Turn your element off and remove your saucepan from its element and place it on a cold element. Let your tea bags seep into your water for 15 minutes.

3. Place your cup of sugar or organic honey into your pitcher

Next up, place your cup of sugar or a cup of organic honey into your 1-gallon pitcher. While your tea bags continue to seep into the water in your saucepan.

4. Remove your tea bags from your water

Remove your tea bags from your water using a pair of tongs or a spoon and throw your used tea bags away.

5. Pour your tea infused water into your pitcher

Now pour your tea infused water into your pitcher, which already contains your sugar or honey. In order to mix your ingredients use a wooden or plastic spoon with a long handle in order to stir around the ingredients of your kitchen. As ideally, you’ll want your sugar or honey to completely dissolve into your liquid.

6. Refrigerate your green tea for several hours

It’s also well worth letting your green tea sit in your fridge for a couple of hours so that your green tea will turn into iced green tea.

7. Serve your iced green tea with ice

When it comes time to serve your iced green tea, pour your iced green tea on top of crushed ice or ice cubes, in order to ensure that your iced green tea is suitably chilled. If you want to add a bit of extra flavor to your iced green tea, simply place a slice of lemon in your Starbuck’s inspired iced green tea. As lemon compliments the flavor of green tea.

Alternative instructions:

Alternatively, if you don’t want to use teabags in order to create your own homemade iced green tea, you may want to learn how to make tea concentrate. As you can also use iced green tea concentrate in order to create delicious homemade iced green tea.

If you’ve been searching for the perfect chocolate whipped cream frosting recipe, your search is over. Simply continue reading to discover how to make a sweet, chocolate whipped cream frosting.

How to make chocolate whipped cream frosting:

Ingredients:

– 1 and a half cups of whipping cream
– 1 and quarter cups of powdered sugar
– a third of a cup of baking cocoa
– 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla

Instructions:

1. Place all of your ingredients in your mixer

Place all of your ingredients in your mixer and place your mixer on a high-speed setting until all of your ingredients have been mixed thoroughly and your chocolate whipped cream frosting looks thick and spreadable. As you don’t want your chocolate whipped cream frosting to run down the side of your cake. So it’s important that your chocolate whipped cream has a thick, solid consistency

2. Spread your chocolate whipped cream all over your cupcakes, cake pops or cake

Once you’ve successfully created your yummy chocolate whipped cream frosting, use a silicone frosting tool or a knife to carefully spread your chocolate whipped cream all over your chosen dessert. Making sure to spread your whipped cream frosting as evenly as possible.

3. Consider decorating your chocolate whipped cream frosting with a few extra toppings

As sprinkles, chocolate flakes, nuts, candy, and marshmallow will quickly stick to your whipped cream, if you’re looking to decorate your cupcakes, cakes or cake pops, it’s a great idea to sprinkle a few extra toppings onto your chocolate whipped cream frosting.

As an example, if you’re considering baking a chocolate cake for a special occasion, you may want to try decorating your whipped cream frosting with rainbow colored sprinkles. Especially if you plan on surprising a child with a bright and colorful, chocolate birthday cake.

Alternatively, if you’re looking to bake a rich chocolate cake for an adult friend or family member, you may want to experiment with carefully placing a few berries on your chocolate whipped cream frosting. As an example, you may want to decorate your chocolate cake with strawberries, raspberries, and raspberries.

Desserts which you can frost with chocolate whipped cream frosting:

While you may use whipped chocolate cream frosting in order to decorate your chocolate cakes and sponge cakes, you can also use chocolate whipped cream frosting to decorate a wide variety of desserts.

As an example, chocolate whipped cream frosting pairs well with chocolate brownies. As chocolate whipped cream frosting adds a bit of softness to the hard texture of a chocolate brownie.

If you bake cookies such as chocolate chip cookies on a regular basis, you may also want to try frosting your next batch of cookies with chocolate whipped cream frosting.

Alternatively, if you enjoy baking cheesecake, you may also be interested in decorating a chocolate cheesecake which boasts chocolate whipped cream frosting.

Lastly, if you enjoy baking cupcakes, it’s well worth using your brand new chocolate whipped cream frosting recipe, to decorate your next batch of cupcakes with.

So if you have a bit of a sweet tooth and love chocolate, it’s well worth testing out the chocolate whipped cream frosting recipe listed above. As you’ll be sure to be impressed with its texture and taste.

Can I freeze pesto sauce? Yes, you can freeze pesto sauce. So if you’re thinking of making a bulk batch of pesto sauce, continue reading to discover how to create color me vegan’s tasty frozen basil pesto sauce.

How do you freeze basil pesto? A step by step guide to preparing and freezing basil pesto:

Ingredients:

– Fresh basil
– Olive oil
– Black pepper
– Salt
– Garlic
– Parmesan cheese
– Pine nuts

Instructions:

1. Place your garlic into a blender

First, place all of your peeled garlic cloves into your blender or food processor. Blend your garlic cloves into your garlic cloves have been blended thoroughly.

2. Add your basil leaves to your blender

Add your basil leaves to the blended garlic into your food processor and blend your garlic and basil leaves together.

3. Add the rest of your ingredients to your blender

Next, add your pine nuts, your salt and pepper, and your parmesan cheese to your blender. Before blending all of your ingredients together using your blender’s pulse function.

4. Start to add olive oil to your blender

Slowly start to pour small amounts of high-quality olive oil into your blender, in order to ensure that your ingredients blend together nicely and that your basil pesto has a smooth consistency.

5. Grab a silicone ice tray or container in order to safely freeze your freshly made pesto sauce

Next, grab a silicone ice cube tray and start to pour your basil pesto sauce into your ice cube tray. Before placing your silicone ice tray in your freezer to set. Alternatively, you can also purchase silicone freezable bags, which you’ll easily be able to pour your basil pesto into!

Once stored in your freezer your basil pesto should be edible for several months. In comparison, if you were to place your basil pesto in an airtight container in your fridge, your basil pesto would only be safe to consume for a week. So it’s well worth going to a bit of extra effort to freeze your basil pesto.

How to use your basil pesto once it’s been frozen:

If you’re curious about how to thaw out your pesto sauce when you’re ready to use it, simply leave your basil pesto out overnight to thaw, ensuring to cover the top of your basil pesto with a lid, to ensure that nothing gets into your basil pesto sauce.

If you’re not going to use your thawed out basil pesto first thing in the morning, simply place your thawed out basil pesto sauce in your fridge. So that you’ll be able to use your basil pesto to prepare your lunch or dinner.

Creative ways to use your basil pesto sauce:

1. On top of a pasta dish

If you create a mouthwatering pasta dish such as lasagne or ravioli, simply place a few teaspoons of basil pesto sauce on top of your pasta.

2. Sandwiches

Basil pesto sauce works well in sandwiches, rolls, and bagels.

So if you love consuming basil pesto and were curious about how to freeze basil pesto sauce, it’s well worth trying out the instructions outlined above!

If you are interested in creating your own homemade lemon sorbet and are looking for a recipe which doesn’t call for an ice cream maker, simply continue reading to discover an easy to follow lemon sorbet recipe.

Lemon sorbet recipe without ice cream maker:

Ingredients:

– 1/2 a cup of lemon juice
– 1 lemon rind
– 1 cup of water
– 1/2 cup of sugar
– 1/2 a cup of mineral water
– 6 strips of lemon zest

Step by step instructions:

1. Dice one lemon peel

Your first step should be to finely dice one lemon peel into miniature cubes.

2. Heat up a medium saucepan

Pour 1 cup of water and 1/2 a cup of sugar into a medium saucepan. Next, add your cubed lemon rind into your medium saucepan. Once you’ve added all of your ingredients to your saucepan, bring your saucepan to boil, before reducing the heat of your saucepan for five minutes. Which will allow the ingredients in your saucepan to heat up.

3. Mix all of your ingredients into a large bowl

Next, pour the liquid which you’ve heated up into a large bowl. Add 1/2 a cup of mineral water, 1/2 a cup of lemon juice and 6 strips of lemon zest to your large bowl.

4. Pour the contents of your bowl into a large freezer-proof container

While you don’t need an ice cream maker in order to create homemade lemon sorbet, you’ll still need a large container, in order to freeze your delicious homemade lemon sorbet.

5. Place your container into your freezer

Next, place your container containing your lemon sorbet mixture into your freezer.

6. Every hour remove your container from your freezer and stir your lemon sorbet ingredients

For the first four hours, after you’ve placed your lemon sorbet ingredients into your freezer, you’ll need to take your sorbet out of your freezer once an hour, in order to stir your makeshift lemon sorbet. Why is it important to stir your lemon sorbet ingredients every hour?

The simple answer is that the more frequently you stir your lemon sorbet, the more air will be incorporated into your lemon sorbet, which will ensure that your sorbet will be light in texture. As premium sorbet has a light, fluffy texture and isn’t too icy like shaved ice.

7. Remove your lemon sorbet from your freezer for a quick taste test

After a minimum of six hours, remove your lemon sorbet from your freezer, in order to perform a taste test on your fresh, homemade lemon sorbet.

Serving ideas:

1. Consider serving your sorbet in a crunchy waffle cone

If you want to turn your lemon sorbet into a proper dessert, it’s well worth serving your lemon sorbet in a waffle cone.

2. Serve your sorbet with a chocolate cake or chocolate brownie

If you plan on hosting a dinner party, wow your guests by serving your sorbet with a rich chocolate cake or chocolate brownie.

So if you’d like to prepare your own lemon sorbet, it’s well worth testing out the simple recipe listed above.

If you’re looking for a simple yet delicious stock recipe, it’s well worth continuing reading to discover a stock recipe which was written by Ina Garten who is also known as the Barefoot Contessa. Who is well known for demystifying cooking and making cooking easy for individual individuals to master.

If you’ve ever been tempted to make your own homemade vegetable stock, you’re in luck as Ina Garten’s vegetable stock recipe only takes around 45 minutes to prepare and is sure to take your homemade soups and dishes to the next level. As a store brought stock will never off the same level of flavor as a homemade stock, which has been made from scratch!

Vegetable stock recipe Ina Garten:

Key ingredients:

– 1 large onion
– 2 pre-peeled carrots
– 1 celery stalk
– 1 large leek
– 3 cloves of crushed garlic
– 4 sprigs of parsley
– 4 sprigs of thyme
– 2 sprigs of tarragon
– 1 bay leaf
– 1 teaspoon of Himalayan rock salt
– 1 teaspoon of black pepper
– 3 quarts of water

Simple instructions:

1. Place all of your ingredients in a large pot

First of all, make sure to place all of the ingredients listed above in a large pot, that is not likely to overflow when your water starts to boil.

2. Bring your pot to a boil

Once your pot starts to boil, lower the temperature of your pot so that the water starts to simmer. Let your pot simmer for approximately 45 minutes. In order for your ingredients such as your herbs such as parsley and tarragon to infuse your water.

3. Let your pot of stock cool down

Next up, make sure to let your pot of freshly prepared stock cool down.

4. Strain your stock

Once your stock has cooled down sufficiently, it’s time to strain your stock from the ingredients in your pot. As you don’t want your stock to contain vegetables as vegetable stock is not a soup and should be a pure liquid.

5. Pour all of your stock into refrigerator safe containers

Once your stock has been successfully strained, make sure to pour all of your stock into refrigerator safe containers. So that you’ll be able to place your vegetable stock in your fridge until you need to use it.

How to use your vegetable stock:

1. Try using your vegetable stock to cook rice

Instead of using water to cook your rice, try using vegetable stock, instead of water to cook your rice as you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the flavor payoff.

2. Use your vegetable stock as a base for homemade soup

If you want to be able to prepare hearty soup without spending too much time slaving in your kitchen, it’s well worth using your vegetable stock as a base for your homemade soup. As an example, you can use vegetable stock as the basis for a walnut and mushroom soup or a hearty leek and potato soup.

So if you’re looking for an easy vegetable stock recipe to follow, you can’t go wrong following Ina Garten’s simple vegetable stock recipe outlined above!