Red, White, and Blue Spritzers!
With patriotic summer holidays coming up, I thought I’d show you a cute little way to make a layered Red White and Blue spritzer that will delight young and old alike – and not take any longer than it does to pour a regular drink!
The lids I’m using on my Mason Jars may be purchased on Amazon by clicking here.
Recipe Ingredients: Blue Gatorade, Sprite Zero or Diet 7-Up and Cranberry Juice Cocktail
A word about substitutions:
This is one of the few recipes I have that I ‘m gonna tell you it’s best not to make any substitutions. Why? Because I’ve tried them and they don’t work.
Blue Kool-Aid? Nope, tried it and it didn’t work.
Regular Sprite or 7-Up? Nope, tried it and it didn’t work.
Lower Calorie Cranberry Juice? Nope, tried it and it didn’t work.
And don’t even think about using the new G2 Gatorade. As much as I am a fan of it, it won’t work.
You really need these three things in particular to layer because each of these liquids have a density slightly lighter than the layer beneath it but heaver than the one on top of it.
That is what makes this work so well :).
Fill your glasses with ice.
Ice is important here because when we pour our liquids that ice serves as a breakwater to help keep our layers separated.
Add in your first layer, which is cranberry juice cocktail.
Slowly pour the blue gatorade over the ice in each glass.
Now add Diet Sprite or 7-Up
Now drink it! 🙂
Ingredients
- Diet 7-Up or Diet Sprite
- Blue Gatorade Not G2, but regular Gatorade
- Cranberry Juice Cocktail
Note, please see post on why substitutions will not work in this recipe
Instructions
- Fill glasses with ice.
- Pour a layer of Cranberry Juice Cocktail first, then follow by slowly pouring gatorade over the ice to help keep it from mixing. Top by slowly pouring diet 7-up or sprite on top.
- Serve!
Nutrition
Here are some more patriotic recipes:
Red, White and Blue Fortune Cookies
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~Helen Keller
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This recipe featured on Meal Plan Monday & Weekend Potluck!
These look refreshing! I love the mason jar to give the nostalgia of Americana. I’ll add these to my table with the Patriotic Cake Truffles. God Bless America
My mom’s birthday is July 4. She will be 91, and I think this drink would be so much fun to have at the party. I like that it is festive but no alcohol.
Because there are so many flavors of the blue gatorade, which one do you recommend for this recipe?
This would be a refreshing beverage for the hot summer months.
If your storebought straws are not tall enough for your mason jar mugs, Amazon carries them. I order them to fit my tall travel mugs.
Okay, that’s pretty neat, lol. Hmm, if we could come up with a green liquid to replace the blue, we could do this on Cinco de Mayo, too! Is there a green Gatorade???
This looks great. I wish I’d read the post before going shopping this morning – I would have picked up the ingredients. Maybe I can still do that – it would be fun to serve at our picnic Monday!
Wow, this looks so pretty & its making me thirsty just reading about it. I’m definitely going to have to make these for this weekend (or any summer day ;))