Ombre Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade

When it’s hot outside, it’s so nice to have a cold drink in your hand! Here’s a lemonade that’s gorgeous enough for a get together and so much fun too. It has a color changing affect which would make this the center of attention at any kids party or at a gals night too.

It’s non-alcoholic, easy to make and too pretty for words. So let’s make it!

Ingredients to Make Ombre Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade

Supplies:

Small Stock Pot
Sieve or Strainer
Gorgeous drinkware (champagne flutes or highball glasses)
Ice

Ingredients:

Strawberries
Lemons
Sugar
Water
Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

Start by Making Strawberry Syrup

First, start by making your strawberry syrup. You can make this ahead of time and store it in the fridge. Or you can use pre-made strawberry syrup – but homemade will be so much more delicious!

To make it, get the full recipe at the bottom of the blog. Wash and slice your strawberries into thin slices. Place them in a small stock pot with water and sugar.

Bring to a gentle boil or medium high heat and then immediately reduce the temperature to allow the strawberries to simmer. Continue to cook for 15 minutes and then remove from heat. While the mixture is still warm, but not hot, pour it through a strainer or sieve to remove the strawberry pulp. Viola! Discard the strawberry pulp and just keep the gorgeous and bright pink strawberry syrup. You can store this strawberry syrup on the fridge for around 2-3 weeks or in the freezer for longer.

Make the Lemonade

Next, you will need to make the lemonade, a similar process to making strawberry syrup. You could use pre-made lemonade in addition to pre-made strawberry syrup which is a really nice way to cut back on all the work and still get the gorgeous color changing effect! But of course, making it from scratch will elevate this drink. And all these individual components are easy to make. So why not try?

To make lemonade, start by making a simple syrup. The goal of making simple syrup is to dissolve the sugar completely. Any simple syrup recipe will tell you that the sugar takes just few minutes to melt. But there’s nothing worse than a syrup that crystalizes once it’s cool. So it’s best to heat your syrup for a few minutes longer than what other recipes say to ensure this doesn’t happen.

Once your sugar is completely dissolved add lemon juice and then cold water. Here’s a detailed lemonade recipe that includes lavender if you want to know more.

Make Strong Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

Next, you will want to brew your butterfly pea flower tea. That’s the ingredient that makes this color changing! It starts out blue, but as it hits the other cold liquids it will change to purple and give this drink a gorgeous ombre effect.

You can get butterfly pea flower tea any place you get tea (like here) Brew butterfly pea flower tea just like any tea but brew it for this recipe really strong so you can get a deep color.

Mix the Strawberry Syrup and Lemonade

To put all your ingredients together and make an Ombre Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade, start by mixing the strawberry syrup and lemonade together. If you don’t the strawberry syrup will sink to the bottom and will be too sweet.

Pour the Strawberry Lemonade Over Ice

Next pour the strawberry lemonade over ice. If you want to go all out, use super cute ice like this. Or make ice with a shaped ice tray – think hearts, stars, or tiny pebbles.

Drizzle Butterfly Pea Flower Tea Slowly

Last, pour your butterfly pea flower tea on top. You have to be careful in the way that you pour your tea. Use a spoon to slowly and gently drizzle it over the top to keep that ombre effect. And viola, your Ombre Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade is ready to serve!

Garnish with Strawberries or Lemons

If you want turn up the volume of cute, you could garnish with a slice of strawberry or slice of lemon on the side of the glass. Or you could add some fresh fruit to the top of the drink. Or edible glitter would be perfect too. But even as is, without all these garnishes, this drink is stunning.

Serving Ideas

Serve your Ombre Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade on a hot summer day or at a pool party. You could serve this as a non-alcoholic alternative at a gals night when you don’t want to drink or you could serve this with a gorgeous pitaya bowl for brunch like this.

Keep the rainbow theme going across your meal by serving it with these Rainbow Waffles.

How to Store Your Ombre Strawberry Butterfly Pea Flower Lemonade

This drink is easiest to store when each ingredient is kept separately. So keep the strawberry syrup, lemonade and butterfly pea flower tea separate until you are ready to combine them. The ingredients should easily store for a little over a week but will taste best when they are fresh.

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