Did you know that you can use your automatic ice cream maker to make slushies?  How did I miss this?  I saw a coke icee on Bake At 350 and decided to try it with my ice cream maker.  Instead of just making a soda flavored one, I decided to try a Cherry Limeade Slushie. 

When I was pregant with Abigail, a Sonic opened a few miles from our house.  All during that long, hot hot summer before she was born, I subsisted on Cherry Limeades.  I still love them.  But, sometimes, I just don’t want to drive to Sonic.  Now I don’t have to because these guys were good – I think they were even better than the Sonic ones since they were slushy and really, really cold.  And drinking them out of milk bottles with paper straws certainly didn’t hurt either. 

All I did was get my ice cream bowl out of the freezer, pour in 2 cups of Minute Maid Cherry Limeade juice (the kind that’s already made up in the refrigerator section at the grocery store) and 3 cups of Sprite.  (I read that you can’t use diet drinks in the ice cream maker, but I wonder if you could in this one, since the juice has sugar in it…hmmm…maybe I’ll try that next time…what’s the worst the could happen besides ruining my ice cream maker…on second thought, I don’t think I’ll try it).  Then, I just set the bowl in the ice cream maker, added the center thing and the lid,  turned it on, and let it do its thing for about 20 minutes.  At first I didn’t think it was going to work (I checked it 200 times in the first three minutes), but after several minutes, the mixture started to “slush up” and by the end of twenty minutes, it was the perfect slushy texture.  Then, I poured them in the glasses, added some cherries and a little cherry juice.  Yum!