There’s lemonade, and then there’s frosted lemonade! Have you ever tried the frosted lemonade from Chick-fil-A? I don’t think there’s anything that could be a more refreshing drink from any fast food restaurant in the history of fast food! Forget milkshakes, it’s all about the lemonade blended with vanilla ice cream, baby!


We’ve still got about 50 lemons on our lemon tree so I can see exactly where this is headed this summer! Between this and lemon chicken piccata, they’ll be used up in no time! I better load up on the vanilla ice cream because it couldn’t get more easy than this to have a delicious, refreshing drink to cool off the kids (okay and me too :) ) this summer!

The recipe calls for freshly squeezed lemons, but you can absolutely use store bought lemon juice. For that freshly squeezed flavor, try and find one that is the most natural you can--something like this Simply Lemonade pictured below would be perfect. If the frozen lemonade concentrate is all you’ve got, I’m sure that would be great too.


For this recipe you start by squeezing a bunch of lemons to get one cup of juice and mix it with some sugar until it dissolves. You add water and you’ve got a lovely batch of lemonade that you’ll store in the fridge for at least an hour before you make your “frosted lemonade” so that it is nice and cold.


When it is go-time, you simply add one cup of your very cold lemonade with two cups of ice cream (about 4 scoops) and blend, baby blend! Top with whipped cream if desired and add a slice of lemon to the side of the glass if you really want to make things look fancy and extra a-peel-ing ha! To really keep the drink as frosty as possible, chill your glasses before hand--you could even go so far as to chilling the pitcher of the blender for a good 20 minutes or so before blending. Only blend until it is just blended together to keep it as cold as possible as well. Since you aren’t blending any ice cubes or anything hard, you don’t need a high-powered blender like a Blentec or Vitamix for this--any blender will work just fine.

Flavor Options

• Strawberry: Give it a strawberry twist by simply swapping the vanilla ice cream flavor for strawberry. Or you could throw in a few fresh strawberries with the vanilla ice cream.
• Orange: Do orange flavored by swapping out the lemonade for freshly squeezed or 100% orange juice
• Lime: I bet you could guess this one :) Same as the orange juice--swap the lemon juice again for freshly squeezed lime juice or store-bought 100% lime juice.
• Chocolate Orange: Use the same recipe but swap the lemon juice for orange juice and use chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla ice cream
• Mint: You can add another layer of a fresh cooling effect by adding in a few mint leaves as well
• Grown-Up Version: Add in a splash of vodka for the “grown-up version”

Dairy Free
This recipe is super easy to change it up for your food restrictions by simply swapping dairy-free ice cream instead of the regular vanilla ice cream, or by using honey, coconut cream and yogurt instead of anilla ice cream.

Without further ado, here is the recipe for the frosted lemonade that you can have quicker than a flash whenever you get that craving or need to cool down quick on a hot summer day. Also, great news--you can have frosted lemonade on any Sunday you want, since Chick-fil-A is always closed on Sundays--wahoo!!



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    Mary Richardson
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