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Fruit Flavored Milk is the perfect way to get your kids or anyone to drink more milk. It is full of fresh fruit flavor and the kids will love making their own flavored milk using their favorite fruit.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe!
We started with strawberry milk since that is what Addy had requested. The first thing we had to do was hull the strawberries. Since I didn’t want to use a knife we used this great trick to quickly and safely hull all the strawberries – we used a straw!
Ingredients Needed
- Milk. You can use your milk of choice – whole milk, 2 percent, fat free or almond milk will all work.
- Fruit. Use fresh fruit. We used strawberries, bananas and oranges.
- Sugar
How to Make Strawberry Milk
For this milk we are only going to use the microwave but you could also do it on the stove top.
- Hull strawberries (see tips below)
- Place hulled strawberries and sugar in a microwave safe bowl and cover with wax paper.
- Microwave on high for three minutes.
- Remove and stir
- Repeat 3 more times
- Strain liquid from berries and cool.
- Add 1 cup of strawberry syrup to 4 C milk and refrigerate
How to Hull A Strawberry
- Remove the green top of the strawberry.
- Push a straw up through the bottom of the strawberry, right through the middle.
The hull of the strawberry comes out with the straw.
- So easy!
How to Make Banana Flavored Milk
Next we made fresh banana milk and there is no cooking required for this one, just a blender.
- Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.
- Chill before serving.
How to Make Orange Flavored Milk
The third one was Fresh Orange Milk and it uses the rind of the orange and some cooking on the stove top. So if your kids are younger you will need to help with the cooking step.
- In a sauce pan, combine zest, sugar and water.
- Cover and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
- Remove cover and summer another 5-10 minutes until mixture is reduced by one third.
- Strain through a strainer to remove zest.
- Combine milk and syrup and mix well. Chill.
Flavor Variations
Peanut Butter Banana Milk: Add 1 tablespoon of peanut butter per cup of milk.
Blueberry Pie Milk:
Combine 1 cup milk, 2 Tbsp blackberry jam, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 Tbsp old fashioned oats in blender and process until smooth. Chill.
Cinnamon Milk:
Use 1 cup milk, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract and a sprinkle or two of cinnamon to taste. Blend or stir together.
Chocolate Milk:
Combine 1 cup milk, use 2 teaspoons maple syrup or sugar and add 1 teaspoon cocoa powder. Stir well or blend together.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long will fruit flavored milk last?
We recommend enjoying it that day or the next. Because of the fresh fruit in it, it won’t last more than 1-2 days.
What kind of milk should I use?
We recommend cow’s milk or an unsweetened plain nondairy milk.
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Fresh Fruit Flavored Milk
Ingredients
Strawberry Milk
- 1 lb. fresh strawberries hulled
- 4 cups sugar
- 4 cups milk
Banana Milk
- 1 ripe banana
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 cups milk
Orange Milk
- 3-4 Tbsp orange zest
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 4 cups Milk
Instructions
Strawberry Milk
- Place hulled strawberries and sugar in a microwave safe bowl. Cover with wax paper.
- Microwave bowl on high for three minutes.
- Remove and stir
- Repeat 3 more times
- Strain liquid from berries and cool.
- Add 1 C syrup to 4 C milk and refrigerate
Banana Milk
- Combine all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.
- Chill before serving
Orange Milk
- In a sauce pan combine zest, sugar and water.
- Cover and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
- Remove cover and summer another 5-10 minutes until mixture is reduced by one third.
- Strain through a strainer to remove zest.
- Combine milk and syrup and mix well.
Tips & Notes:
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Diane Ugo says
Thank you, will make some this week.