Orange Julius

This flavor variation from the Orange Julius company may be called Banana Julius, but they also add a little orange juice to the mix. Make sure your bananas are ripe for this clone, so you get a nice sweet drink with the perfect thickness just like the original Orange Julius Banana Julius.

Click here for my recipe for the classic Orange Juliius.

Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur.

In the first book, Top Secret Recipes, I included a recipe for homemade Orange Julius that was often requested for demonstrations on TV talk shows. Just about every time I did those demos, I was asked how to make other Julius flavors. So here they are: my Orange Julius Strawberry Julius and Pineapple Julius copycat recipes. Each one is made like the orange version but has chunks of real fruit thrown in, just like the real thing.

What other famous drinks can you make at home? Click here to find out. 

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Coffeehouses have replaced many of the old Orange Julius stands, but there's still a nostalgic group of us who long for the frothy juice drinks invented decades ago by Julius Freed. Today Orange Julius has tailored its business to meet the changing demands of its customers by including several varieties of fruit drinks and updated smoothies on its menu. But it's the foamy fruit juice creation developed in the late twenties that made the company famous, and that's what I've cloned here in my Orange Julius copycat recipe, an improved version that's found in the book Top Secret Recipes: Sodas, Smoothies, Spirits & Shakes. The flavor and consistency is better now, plus we use the blender to dissolve the sugar before adding the ice. Use pasteurized egg whites found packaged in your local supermarket or just use egg substitute, which is also made from pasteurized egg whites.

Try other popular Orange Julius flavors like Banana, Strawberry-Banana, and Pineapple.

As the trend for fruit smoothies surged in the 1990s, the Orange Julius company didn't want to be left out. Orange Julius popularized the fruit smoothie with the original Orange Julius blended drink back in 1926. But as thicker smoothie drinks of more complex blends became popular, Orange Julius put a twist on fruity beverages with a secret ingredient that is dumped into the blender along with the fruit. They also add a scoop of the original powdery compound added to the "Julius" drinks. This new powder, called coconut-almond compound, includes a frothing and thickening agent, plus a hint of coconut and almond flavorings. 

Now you can make your own home version with my Orange Julius Strawberry-Banana Classic Smoothie copycat recipe using coconut syrup and almond extract.

Try my original Orange Julius recipe here. 

Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur