Drinks

8 recipes.

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  Applebee's Perfect Margarita: Agave Instead of Sugar SyrupSugar syrup sits on top of tequila and tastes like a separate ingredient. Agave dissolves into it.

  5 min280 kcal5 ingredients
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  Applebee's Shark Bowl: The Grenadine Sinks Because of SugarThe red cloud at the bottom is a density trick. Get the sugar wrong in the blue base and it just goes pink.

  5 min5100 kcal/tbsp7 ingredients
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  Applebee's White Peach Sangria: Frozen Peaches Beat FreshFresh peach slices go brown and mushy in wine. Frozen ones stay firm, chill the jug, and never brown.

  10 min + 4 hr chilling210 kcal8 ingredients
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  Carrabba's Blackberry Sangria: Cook the Fruit FirstWhole blackberries floating in wine give you almost no colour and almost no flavour. A four-minute syrup fixes both.

  15 min + 4 hr chilling280 kcal9 ingredients
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  Dutch Bros Dragon Slayer: The Syrup CombinationPeach and strawberry over the Rebel base, with cream floated on top and not stirred in.

  3 min330 kcal5 ingredients
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  Dutch Bros Rebel Recipe: How to Make One at HomeA Rebel is not coffee, which is where most home versions go wrong. Here is what is actually in one.

  2 min330 kcal4 ingredients
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  Outback Blackberry Martini: The Shake Is Adding a Quarter of the DrinkDilution is an ingredient. Stirred instead of shaken, the same recipe comes out sharp and unbalanced.

  5 min6 ingredients
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  Starbucks Brown Sugar Syrup: Do Not Let It BoilBoiled sugar syrup crystallises in the bottle within a week. Kept below a boil, it stays liquid for a month.

  10 min35 kcal/tbsp5 ingredients