A quick and refreshing mocktail can set the mood right in a jiffy. Your children would also want to join in on the fun and not restrict themselves to standard fruit juices or cold drinks. There are some quick recipes of mocktails for children that you can employ and make it a fun-filled time for the entire family.
Simple Mocktail Recipes Ideas for Kids
Here are some simple recipes for mocktails for kids.
1. Fizzling Raspberry
Ingredients Needed
- Raspberry juice
- Raspberry sherbet
- Drinking soda
How to Prepare
Take a blender and put together the juice and the sherbet scoops in it. Add the soda to it and blend it all together till it is consistent and smooth. Pour the mixture into nice glasses and let your kids enjoy.
2. Vanilla Soda French Styled
Ingredients Needed
- Chamomile syrup
- Vanilla extract
- Drinking soda
- Ice cubes
How to Prepare
Take a tall glass. Put together the syrup and a few scoops of the vanilla extract in it together. Stir it together. Add a few cubes of ice to it and fill up the glass with soda. The mocktail is ready to be served.
3. Lemon Cola
Ingredients Needed
- Frozen chilled lemonade concentrate
- A can of cola
- Lemon slice
- Ice cubes
How To Prepare
Take a glass and create a base inside it using crushed ice cubes. Thaw the chilled lemonade extract and add a few spoons of the extract to the base in the glass. Open the can of cola and pour it in the glass till it fills it to a good level. Attach the lemon slice to the edge of the glass and serve a classy mocktail to your kid.
4. Cream Soda Italian Styled
Ingredients Needed
- Drinking soda
- Passion fruit syrup
- Watermelon syrup
- Half and half cream
How to Prepare
Take a glass and fill it with ice till half of its capacity. Later, pour drinking soda in it till it is filled up to two-thirds of its capacity. Add both the passion fruit syrup as well as the watermelon syrup to it. Stir it to mix it well. Top off the drink with half and half cream and stir it one more time. The mocktail is good to be served.
5. Forgotten Bench
Ingredients Needed
- A bunch of dills
- Pistachios
- Water
- Sugar
- Grapefruit juice
- Lemon juice
- Tonic water
How To Prepare
Take the dill and blend them together with water. Strain the mixture and keep it aside.
Take a cup full of pistachios and blend them together with water till they are fine. Strain that mixture and keep it aside. This is called as pistachio milk.
Blend together half a cup of pistachios with some sugar till it is fine. Take out this mixture and add it to a saucepan with a cup of water. Heat it on a medium flame until the sugar is dissolved. After it cools down, strain it so that the pistachio nuts are separated. What remains is the pistachio syrup.
Now take the blended dills, the pistachio milk, and the pistachio syrup all together in a glass and shake it all well. Strain it into another glass filled with ice cubes. Add tonic water to the mixture and top it off with a dill and pistachio for presentation.
6. Mint Choco Mocktail
Ingredients Needed
- Mint flavoured chocolate ice cream
- Coconut cream
- Crushed ice
- Half and half cream
- Chocolate syrup
How to Prepare
Take a plate and add a small amount of chocolate syrup on it. Take a glass (a martini glass is preferred) and invert it over the plate. Coat the rim of the glass with the syrup. Make sure it is completed covered in it.
Once done, add the ice cream, coconut cream, crushed ice, half and half to the glass and keep stirring constantly so that they all mix together properly. Once the mixture is smooth, the mocktail is ready to be served.
7. Mango Frappe
Ingredients Needed
- Peeled mango cut into small pieces
- Orange juice
- Lemon juice
- Ice cubes
- Drinking soda
How to Prepare
Put the chunks of mango in a blender and blend them well to form a puree. Add orange juice and lemon juice to the blender and continue blending it together. Follow it up with adding the ice cubes and the soda. Blend in pulses to avoid fizzing of the soda until it is smooth. Pour it into a glass and serve it.
8. Healthy Rehydrator
Ingredients Needed
- Aloe vera juice
- Real cranberry juice without sugar
- Lemon juice
- Honey syrup
- Cherry syrup
- Circular lemon slice
How to Prepare
Put all the ingredients, except the lemon slice, in a glass and shake them well together to mix properly. Strain it into another glass, preferably a cocktail shaped one. Place the circular lemon slice in the centre of the mocktail and serve it.
9. Cucumber Punch
Ingredients Needed
- Water
- Ice cubes
- Instant lemonade powder without sugar
- White grape juice concentrate
- Lemon slice
- Small fine cucumber slices
How to Prepare
Take a bowl and add some water to it along with the ice cubes. Add the instant lemonade powder to it as well as the white grape juice concentrate. Stir the entire mixture properly so that it mixes well.
Once mixed, pour the mixture into a glass. Place the lemon slice on the edge of the glass and cucumber slices on the mocktail. Serve it fresh.
10. Sweet Sour Sparkler
Ingredients Needed
- Pear nectar
- Sweet and sour mocktail mix
- Lemon seltzer
- Icing sugar
How to Prepare
Take a glass and run a piece of lemon all around its rim. Make sure the lemon juice covers the rim completely. Take some icing sugar and coat the rim of the glass fully. Keep the glass aside.
Next, take a large pitcher. Add ice at the bottom and pour the pear nectar and the mocktail mix together over it. Follow it up by pouring the lemon seltzer in it.
Put this entire mixture in the refrigerator for a few hours. Once chilled, pour it into the glasses coated with sugar and serve it chilled.
Having a large variety of mocktail recipes for kids parties, family functions, or even a nice lazy afternoon is a fun way to bring together adults and kids together and have a great time. These recipes are delicious, some are nutritious even, but all of them are the best at beating the heat of the summer in the best way possible.
