I love recreating my favorite restaurant dishes at home so I was excited to get my hands on a copy of Stephanie Manley’s new book, CopyKat.com’s Dining Out at Home Cookbook 2, just released July 9th, 2013. If you haven’t tried some of her recipes, you are missing out on a treat. Her recipes are easy enough for the beginning cook and include dishes from all sorts of restaurants. There is everything from Fast Food, like Arby’s, McDonalds and Sonic, to casual dining, like Logan’s, Olive Garden and Red Lobster. I plan to make and share some more of her amazing dishes–can you say dessert???–during this month as well.
This Freeze from Taco Bell is so simple. There are only three ingredients in the drink! The quantity can be doubled or tripled if you want to serve friends, or kept as is if you just want a refreshing treat for yourself.
- 1/2 cup ice
- 1/2 cup lemon lime soda (can use diet)
- 1/2 cup pina colada mix
- 1 lime slice
- Add the ice, lemon lime soda and pina colada mix to a blender. Blend until the ice has been crushed. Pour into a glass and garnish with a lime slice.
I’m debating on what other recipes I want to include this month but I am a huge fan of Dairy Queen’s Ice Cream desserts so possibly the Turtlette Bar or Peanut Butter Parfait Bar. Is your mouth watering yet?
What are your favorite drinks to make to beat the summer heat? Have you tried a Frutista Freeze yet?
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This looks so good thanks for sharing! I love Pina Colada!
I normally don’t order pina colada drinks, but one day it was hot and I tried Taco Bell’s drink. I thought it was pretty darn good. I would love to copy the recipe.
I’m in Houston! Love me some margarita cool down hot days!
I this is great! I actually have some piña colada mix I wasn’t using bc we don’t drink, but now I know what to do with it!
This sounds like it would be perfect for a warm summers evening 🙂 x
mmm i love having me a virgin pina colada!
Sounds so refreshing!
Ohhh My…this looks awesome and sooo simple… guess what I will make tonight…. LOVE it… thanks for sharing and cheers…or Prost like us Germans say
This is something that I definitely have to try.
Thank you for posting my recipe. I hope you enjoyed the book.
That looks like summer, summer, summer. Delicious! I’m interested in that book now!!
i would love so much to prepare something like this for me and my fiancee.. if there is something I like to do is to experiment on cocktails 🙂
This look so good and I love that you used a great glass for the drink. It makes it seem very grown up! I am going to have to give this a try!
Yum! Love a good cold drink in the summer!!!
My son would totally love this! It would be a good special treat. 🙂
I didn’t know Taco Bell had a Pina Colada!! This sounds super yummy, though! Great for by the pool.
I just had this the other day at TacoBell and it was GOOD! I will have to PIN this!
Looks so good. I could go for a cool glass of pink lemonade this afternoon. Freshly made.
Yes, my mouth is watering!! I have a feeling I will have to get creative with most of these recipes a to make them for a diabetic (ME)
YUUMMMZ!! I want one! That looks absolutely awesome and that book sounds pretty cool too!
Taco Bell has a Pina Colada? I eat there at least once a week and never realized thay had frozen drinks….duh. I’ll have to try it and then try this one 🙂
I love Piña Coladas! This is definitely one we will be trying to copy here at home. It looks easy to make!
a copykat cook book? HELLO!! YES PLEASE!! do some DQ stuff!!
We made the Dairy Queen Parfait Bars and they are so good! And much cheaper than buying them. I will include the recipe soon.
YUM! I make their Limeade Refresher Copy Cat Recipe and it is so good. Our local Taco Bell got tore down and is being re-built so I haven’t had the luxury of trying this yet, so what better time then to make one myself :-)! Thanks for recipe!!
I hope you enjoy it, Kelsey!
Absolutely delicious and refreshing. A perfect Summer recipe 🙂
This looks great and I have to admit that obviously I’ve been missing out as I didn’t know Taco Bell had this. Now I don’t have to go there to enjoy it. I love books like this. I’ll go look at it and see if they have any recipes that I’m dying to try out. Love knowing secrets 🙂
In this 90 degree heat that looks soooooooooooo good right now! Thanks for sharing the recipe, will have to whip up a batch soon!
Oh my fiance would love this! Will be sharing the recipe with him, thank you!!
I love this recipe! It’s perfect for hot summers in Texas.