As you know from my many posts featuring the works of children’s book author Mo Willems, we are huge fans. Even as my oldest children move on from picture books, there is a special place for his characters – The Pigeon, Gerald and Piggie. Even as an adult, I’m excited when a new book from the Pigeon series is released because it never fails to entertain me. This Berkshire Blanket inspired by Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! is so nice and ridiculously soft. The second method is probably my favourite though, for a truly magical effect. This way take a little bit more prep time and needs to be made a day in advance but I promise you, it’s worth it! To make your punch, pour equal parts lemonade and blue sports drink into your half gallon mason jar or large pitcher and add lemon lime soda to taste. Then simply pour your ice into your glasses (For different colour variations you can add some normal crushed ice above or below the blue ice), Pour some of the lemonade syrup into the bottom of each glass and top up with either ice-cold water or sparkling water and mix. Voila!

If you have leftover blue raspberry lemonade consider pouring it into ice trays and placing it in the freezer. The next time you make this drink, use your homemade ice cubes so that your drink doesn’t become watered down as they melt. When you’re ready to serve up your magic lemonade slushies, it’s time to crush your blue ice. To do this you can either use a food processor or, I have this nifty Ice crusher specifically for slushies because I’m slushie obsessed! (and I love to make slushies for events so need one!) Tip #2: If you are not getting the color you desire for your drink, simple add some food coloring! I like the Wilton food colors because they are vibrant! So I went on the hunt for other ways to recreate this classic and ended up with a healthy-ish version and a not so healthy version. Both are just as simple as the original, and just as delicious too! This simple magic colour-changing lemonade is made using butterfly pea flower and turns from blue to purple in front of your very eyes. This magical concoction is sure to impress kids and guest alike! Plus, it uses 100% natural colouring and less than 10 ingredients!And, you might be surprised to know that this isn’t the only ingredient that has this colour-changing effect. Red cabbage water has this very same effect (and can be used for lots of fun experiments with kids). There's nothing better than a sip of iced cold lemonade, but when you add blue raspberry, you get an instant upgrade. Blue raspberry lemonade has become our favorite summer drink, and this recipe is constantly on repeat around here.

An iced blue raspberry lemonade is refreshing. You can really taste the flavors of the drink with every sip. My family has given this drink a rating of ten thumbs up, haha.

Divide the ice between 12 glasses and add a few spoonfuls of puree first, then top with the lemonade. Gently stir it before serving. Lemons: You can use freshly squeezed lemons for the freshest flavor but there’s nothing wrong with taking a shortcut and using premade lemonade too. Just omit the sugar for the recipe as it would have already been included in your drink. This beautiful Blue Lemonade drink recipe takes 5 minutes to make using only freshly squeezed lemon juice, water, sugar, and some blue syrup; served over ice cubes, it’s a sweet and refreshing warm weather drink with a traditional lemonade taste. I suspect that this result is due to the fact that the blue’ish tint that comes off of the red cabbage’s leaves into the steaming water is not-at-all a stable coloring ingredient. The element from the cabbage that colors the water is chemically affected by the acidity level of any other ingredient added to it thus changing its color immediately from very deep dark purple (when boiled longer) through the somewhat “oceany” color ( when put into the hot water for 30 sec as suggested here in this recipe), all the way to the shiny red I got – when I added lemons and limes juice. I’m not a chemist but I spent a lot of time today experimenting and I managed to waste all the lemons and limes in my house – that was a lot (!), only to discover this beautiful-but-dissatisfying feature of the color from the red cabbage leaves. It was fascinating to see how rapidly the color changes to red as soon as I add the lemons – like a in a high school chemistry class but also frustrating because I didn’t get the blue lemonade I so desired :(. Next, we make the sugar syrup, but this is where the method differs slightly. When creating slushies I prefer to make my lemonade syrup as a whole, rather than a simple sugar syrup.

Plus, if you are planning on serving this magic lemonade at some sort of social gathering then I have plenty of other party food inspiration including this Two-layer Raspberry, Peach & Lemonade tart, or this Vegan Strawberry two-layer tart or for something savoury, how about this rainbow hummus veggie platter? If you’re looking for other fun recipes for kids, then how about this Sweet Potato Crust Rainbow Pizza or some veggie-filled savoury cupcakes with avocado ‘frosting’. How to make simple colour-changing LemonadeWhat I love most about this recipe is that it uses a natural colourant and ‘natures magic’ science to get the colour-changing effect. Place the blue spirulina in your glass then add the lemonade. Stir gently. You might find the drink foams up a bit as the 2 ingredients react with each other, so just scoop the foam out – although my boys thought this was ‘supercool’ and wanted to eat it instead! The color change reaction of the cabbage water versus the pH levels can simply described as follows: This simple colour-changing lemonade is made in just four steps: Make the simple sugar syrup, steep the butterfly pea flower, mix and finally add the lemon juice. To make the simple sugar syrup Blue curacao syrup is made with sugar, water and natural citrus flavors. It evokes the flavors of blue curacao liqueur but without the alcohol. Where can I get blue curacao syrup?