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How to make Rainbow Ice Cubes (No Artificial Coloring!)

Here's how to make naturally colored and flavored rainbow ice cubes (colored ice cubes) with fruits! Super simple recipe for endless summer fun and delicious rainbow lemonade drinks!

Course: Dessert , Drinks , Baked Goods , Others

Ingredients

Red (Raspberry)
  • 1 recipe of Raspberry Sorbet or 8oz of Raspberries pureed and sweetened
Orange (Peach)
  • 1 recipe of Peach Sorbet or 8oz of peach flesh pureed and sweetened
Yellow (Pineapple)
  • 1 recipe of Pineapple Sorbet or 8oz of pineapple pureed and sweetened
Green (Honeydew Melon)
  • 1 recipe of Honeydew Melon Sorbet or 8oz of honeydew melon pureed and sweetened
Blue (Butterfly Pea)
  • 3 bags of Butterfly pea tea or ¼ cup loosely packed dried butterfly pea flowers
  • 2 cups of boiling water
  • Sugar to sweeten your drink
To serve
  • Your favourite lemonade
  • Vodka to top up optional

Instructions

Fruit Ice Cubes
    Cup of Yum
  1. Fill the ice cube trays with the fruit sorbets or pureed fruit. Freeze overnight (Please see note).
Butterfly pea Ice cubes
  1. For the blue Butterfly pea ice cubes, steep the tea bags or dried flowers in boiling water and keep covered for about 5-10 minutes, till you get a beautiful deep blue color.
  2. Drain the liquid and add sugar to sweeten it to your liking. Let the tea cool.
  3. Fill the ice cube tray with this liquid and freeze overnight.
  4. When the ice cubes have frozen, remove them from the tray and store them in plastic freezer bags (this is just for convenience).
  5. When ready to serve, place rainbow ice cube each in a glass, and fill with lemonade about ¾ of the way - if you're topping it with vodka, or all the way - if you're not adding alcohol.
  6. You can leave it out for a few minutes or until the rainbow ice cubes start to melt (especially the blue Butterfly pea ice cube), before serving.

Notes

  • You can use any ice cube tray, but silicone trays will release the sorbet ice cubes more easily.