A method and device for creating a beverage recipe for anintegrated beverage blending system includes a dispenser and at least oneblending/mixing/cleaning module. The method creates the beverage recipewith recipe program running on a computer interactively with a user makingrecipe entry parameters for the dispensing, blending and mixing operations.The recipe can be stored on a portable memory and inserted into auser interface controller of the integrated system or into an associated pointof sale device.