Magic Colour Changing Lemonade

This magic colour changing lemonade recipe might be the closest thing you’ll ever get to real-life magic. It is often called galaxy lemonade for its mesmerizing, beautiful colours. This butterfly pea recipe makes the perfect refreshing drink – either for yourself or to serve – that tingles your senses and is ideal for all ages.

I bet you’ll love this magical color changing lemonade drink. When the weather is hot and you crave a chilled sweet drink, this magic lemonade will hit the spot.

Also try sweet tea raspberry popsicles, chocolate dipped strawberry popsicles, watermelon boba popsicles or this state fair style lemonade.

Watching the colour change while making this magical concoction is half the fun! No food colouring is needed as the secret ingredient to achieve the deep blue colour is blue pea flowers. The colour transforms with all natural ingredients. It really is a magical ingredient!

The trick behind this galactic magic comes from the butterfly pea powder, which might have come as a surprise to you! This butterfly pea powder essential to create the look and taste of color changing lemonade. However, you’ll need to actually make the lemonade first.

Making regular lemonade can be done in different ways. I suggest using fresh squeezed lemon with a touch of sweetener added.

If you want to try an alternative to this recipe below, you can make special ice cubes. You can use the butterfly pea powder mixture to make ice cubes for colour changing lemonade. However, that is just an option.

Did you know that butterfly pea tea was a medicinal tea in Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka? Schools often use it also for science experiments to enlighten children. This special ingredient is an integral part of this fun recipe.

Butterfly Pea Magic

The drink that changes colour with lemon uses the low pH from the butterfly pea powder mixture to transform the lemonade’s colour. You can see the lemon mixture change from blue to purple, and then to bright pink! This will leave you or anyone else enjoying the drink absolutely entranced by its captivating swirls. Non-alcoholic colour changing drinks are the perfect special drink for kids.

And the next trick? It’s the citric acid in the lemonade that triggers this essential color change. Hence, the name colour changing lemonade, of course! Watching as the color transforms with this secret ingredient is quite amazing to see the first time. It is such a fun drink and an easy recipe to try.

So this part is simple – you need to make the butterfly pea flower tea. You can steep butterfly pea flowers in water first, using tea bags, or you can try the same Blue Butterfly Pea Supercolor Powder that I used with water. You can use either the powder or the butterfly pea flower tea bags.

Once that’s prepared, along with the lemonade, you can start the recipe for non-alcoholic color changing lemonade.

While you can make a slushie-style drink, my personal preference for this recipe is to keep it iced rather than crushed into a slushie.

You’ll add the lemon syrup first with some soda and regular ice. Then, top it off with the magical butterfly pea tea ice cubes that you pre-made and delight in the beautiful colour transformation! You can finish it off with a hint of alcohol if you’re in need of a pick-me-up (adults-only, of course!), and then stir to let the colours swirl around even more.

Voila! You’ve made your very own wizardry concoction. No, seriously, this does look like some sort of potion spell. The swirling change of colours is mind-blowing, and I bet you won’t be able to resist trying it the moment you’ve put it all together.

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Colour Changing Lemonade Recipe

Now you have the perfect summer drink recipe! Add this colour changing drink into your beverage rotation and you won’t be disappointed

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