Need recipe for a blue lemonade or punch that doesn't involve Hawaiian Punch

[Anonymous]

I'm co-hosting a baby shower this spring and we'd love to do some sort of light non-alcoholic lemonade or punch. It's easy to make pink lemonade, but the mother to be is having a boy. I'm searching Pinterest but everything I'm finding includes blue hawaiian punch or koolaid, usually mixed with Sprite or some other equally heinous combination.

Does anyone have a recipe for a blue lemonade, or is it as easy as a few drops of food coloring?

[Anonymous]

Won't fooD coloring stain everyone's teeth?

You could probably do a blueberry lemonade with blueberry juice and muddled blueberries. Will be more greenish than blue dependin on how many blueberries you use, but seems better than food coloring.

[Anonymous]

Simply lemonade has a variation that is Simply Lemonade with blue berry so it is a little more blueish.

[Anonymous]

Food coloring doesn't stain your teeth. (I mean, not in the quantity you'd need to put a blue tint in a drink, it doesn't!)

Blueberry lemonade won't be blue. I think you'll be fine with the food coloring.

[Anonymous]

I would think that blueberry would wind up looking pink once you mixed it with lemonade. There really is no "natural" blue color, so you're going to have to go with food color or the blue punch (which has food color in it.)

[Anonymous]

Sorry but gross - who wants to drink a blue drink?? Have a fizzy yellow lemonade punch and freeze berries in ice cubes to float in the punch. As the mother of only boys, not everything for boys needs to be blue

[Anonymous]

Why can't you make regular lemonade?

[Anonymous]

I would freeze blueberries in ice cubes or skewer then on a cocktail stirrer. Much more appealing to the adults.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, everyone. I like the frozen blueberry idea, or maybe even put blueberries and some mint sprigs in the lemonade without worrying about coloring the liquid itself.

Most things won't be blue, including not having blue cupcakes or cake, so a drink in a bowl or pitcher was going to be the one shot of blue on the food and drink table.

[Anonymous]

http://www.moninstore.com/blue-curacao-syrup.html

[Anonymous]

If you were looking for a food coloring without artificial dye, “Watkins” uses spirulina extract for the blue color.
Whole Foods also has a product named “365”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks, everyone. I like the frozen blueberry idea, or maybe even put blueberries and some mint sprigs in the lemonade without worrying about coloring the liquid itself.

Most things won't be blue, including not having blue cupcakes or cake, so a drink in a bowl or pitcher was going to be the one shot of blue on the food and drink table.

Well you chose the hardest thing to be blue. Just saying.
Maybe some balloons?

[Anonymous]

Butterfly pea powder is blue unless mixed with an acid (this is a fun color change experience for kids; it turns pink). So it won't work for blue lemonade, but will easily tint a punch.

Do something like white peach juice/white cranberry, mint leaves, and something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Butterfly-Flowers-Premium-Coloring/dp/B093L5RFQJ

[Anonymous]

No food coloring, please.

[Anonymous]

Ew. Blue drinks are unappetizing. Overdoing it on gendered stuff is also in poor taste. Just serve lemonade.