This frozen blue drink is a great summer mocktail idea! Filled with rose lemonade, blue curacao, crushed ice, and fresh mint, it’s guaranteed to cool you down! Try our Frozen Blue Rose Mint Julep Mocktail Recipe, a great mocktail recipe for kids and adults!
Frozen Blue Rose Mint Julep Mocktail Recipe
Happy Friday! We’ve made it through another busy week. This week the boys were in charge of making their own dinner. Two of them requested make-your-own-dinner night. Zayd’n decided to take it a step further and said he wanted it all week!
What Mother would turn this offer down? No cooking for a whole week? Yes, sign me up! {lol} It was quite interesting, to say the least. Zayd’n did really well by making a breakfast bacon sandwich, pizza rolls, cereal, salad, and a few other choices. One of the twins struggled coming up with cooking his own dinner. However, this was a great learning experience for all of them. Overall, I think it went well, but I know they are glad to see Friday! Fridays are pizza night at our house. We will either order a pizza, make our own pizza, or have a frozen one.
Zayd’n and I have been working on a few mocktail ideas for summer drinks. Since the Kentucky Derby was on last week, we decided to make a kid-friendly mocktail mint julep. This mint julep is sweet, of course, it is, it’s a mint julep! It also has the signature touch of mint and your kiddos will love making it! I promise! And don’t forget, this easy and refreshing recipe is not only great for kids, but it is also a cool summer drink for adults as well! Cheers!
When Zayd’n and his brother first tried it, their eyes lit up with a “WOW, Mom, this is GOOD!” Living in the house with a self-made mixologist, we always have a lot of ingredients on hand to make mocktails and cocktails.
What You Will Need To Make Our Kid-Friendly Blue Rose Mint Julep:
Ingredients:
- 4 fresh mint leaves
- 1/2 ounce of mint syrup (make your own mint simple syrup listed below)
- 1 ounce of blue Curaçao
- ice
- 1 oz of coconut water or a coconut infused with pineapple
- 3.5 ounces of Rose Lemonade (regular lemonade will work as well)
*For a sweeter taste, we added 1 oz of Virgin Pina Colada mix
Directions:
- Traditionally, mint juleps are made directly in a serving glass, but you can make them in a cocktail shaker or add all of the ingredients into a blender and pulse.
- Into a serving glass, add three to four (3-4) fresh mint leaves plus the mint syrup and muddle. Muddling the mint breaks the leaves apart releasing the oils that give mint juleps their signature taste.
- Fill the glass with crushed ice or pebble ice.
- Pour in blue Curaçao, coconut water, and top with the Rose Lemonade, {if you are going for a sweeter taste, then add the 1 oz of Virgin Pina Colada mix}
- To mix, use a long-handle bar spoon and give the drink a stir.
- Garnish with a few fresh blueberries as garnish
- Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint
- Serve!
Ingredients + Directions for Mint Syrup (from Oak Alley Plantation)
- 2 cups of sugar
- 8 oz water (1st step)
- 12 oz water (2nd step)
- 8 mint sprigs for boiling
- 5 sprigs for garnish
Directions:
- Dissolve the sugar in 1 cup of water in a saucepan.
- Bring to a boil.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low and add 8 mint sprigs.
- Stir until the leaves are soaked and limp. Simmer for 10 minutes uncovered.
- Remove from heat, cool, and strain.
- When the mixture has cooled, add the remaining water, mixing well.
You can also buy a Mint Simple Syrup if you don’t want to make your own!
Try making our frozen Blue Rose Mint Julep, and come back and let us know what you thought! If you have teens and tweens, we have 25 summer bucket ideas to try this summer!
Find more mocktail recipes to try down below:
Christmas Peppermint Julep {Kid-Friendly}
Frozen Cherry + Blackberry Mint Julep {virgin}
Mulled Sangria Mocktail Made In the Instant Pot
What flavor is blue Curaçao?
Blue Curacao is a sweet orange peel flavor. You would think by the color maybe coconut, but it is a fresh and sweet citrus flavor. It does offer a bit of a bitter twist to it. This is one of the most popular mixed drink add-ins!
What is a substitute for blue Curacao?
Triple sec is a very close swap in flavor for blue Curacao. You will find the Curacao has more of a bitter twist at the end but they are similar and can be interchanged when making drinks and cocktails.
Can I make this without crushed ice?
You can serve your mint julep mocktail over just plain ice, crushed ice, or with no ice. I find that the crushed ice is delicious, when you use the blender it is kind of like a sno-cone consistency.
What alcohol to add to this rose mint julep to make it a cocktail?
You can use a traditional bourbon whiskey, vodka, or even tequila for a twist. Add 1-2 ounces or add to taste your personal preference. We love these as a mocktail so the kids can enjoy them. But for us we like to dress them up from time to time for a little bit of a treat.
Variations to Recipe
- Use a raspberry or pink lemonade
- Swap Curacao with Triple Sec
- Instead of coconut water swap with a carbonated water for a fizzy twist
- Top with fresh raspberries, strawberries, etc.
- Leave out the mint for a sweeter mocktail.
Ingredients
- Ingredients:
- 1 oz of Rose Lemonade regular lemonade will work as well
- 1 oz of Coconut Lime Sparkling Soda you could also use Sparking Water or 7UP
- 2 oz of Blue Curacao
- Fresh Mint
- 1 oz of Mint Syrup or you can make your own mint simple syrup listed below
- Ice
- *For a sweeter taste we added 1 oz of virgin Pina Colada mix
Instructions
Directions:
- In a cocktail shaker add Rose Lemonade, Coconut Lime Sparkling Soda, Blue Curacao and Mint Syrup. {if you are going for a sweeter taste, then add the 1 oz of Pina Colada mix}
- Stir, do not shake. Set aside.
- In a blender, crush one cup of ice.
- Fill into a mason-style glass.
- Pour the liquids into the glass over the ice.
- Add a fresh sprig of mint.
- Serve!
AnnMarie John says
Oh you know I’m going to make this. I need to come to your house so both you and D can stuff me with food and drink. 🙂