This red, white, and blue Bomb Pop cocktail is the perfect color for summer and features the classic Bomb Pop flavors of cherry and lemon. It's the perfect adult beverage for a summer filled with fun.
Summer parties are all about bright colors and delicious flavors. For family-friendly entertaining, treats like those found in this collection of summer cupcake recipes always hit the spot.
For a more adult-oriented party, pair your delicious food with zippy libations full of fruity, refreshing flavors, like this watermelon vodka cocktail. You'll also want to serve this Bomb Pop cocktail, too. It's the perfect color for summer fun, and its flavors bring back memories of childhood days.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Limited Ingredients: This cocktail requires only four ingredients.
- Easy: It's far easier to achieve its layered look than you might think.
- Festive: The red, white, and blue colors are perfect for summer.
- Refreshing: This cocktail tastes like a delicious blend of cherry lemonade and vodka.
Ingredients
Just a few ingredients and some ice are all it takes to make this colorful, delicious cocktail.
- Grenadine: Adds a sweet, tart, fruity pomegranate flavor. Homemade grenadine is simply pomegranate juice and sugar, simmered until thickened.
- Small Ice Cubes: Pebble ice or crushed ice will help create layered look.
- Lemonade: Adds a wonderfully sour lemon flavor.
- Blue Food-Safe Coloring Liquid: Adds beautiful bright blue color.
See the recipe card below for the exact quantities of each ingredient.
Variations
- Grenadine: Pomegranate juice, combined with simple syrup or raspberry syrup, is a great substitute for grenadine, with raspberry syrup giving the drink a vibrant red color and berry kick.
- Lemonade: Use lemon-lime soda or sparkling lemonade for some fizz, or try fresh lemon juice with a little sugar for a fresher flavor.
- Vodka: Use white rum, gin, blanco tequila for different flavor, or coconut water for a mocktail.
Instructions
All you have to do to make this cocktail is pour!
Slowly pour grenadine into your glass to prevent much splashing. Use enough to fill to a ½ an inch or at least 1 centimeter in height.
Carefully add ice into the glass using a spoon.
Mix lemonade and 1 ½-ounces of vodka into a spouted measuring cup and slowly pour on to the back of a spoon, into the glass. Leave at least 1 inch of space from the top.
In the same spouted measuring cup, add the remaining 1 ½-ounce vodka and 1-2 drops of blue coloring and repeat, pouring on the back of the spoon. Garnish with a bomb pop popsicle if desired.
Recipe Tips
- You may need to use more grenadine, depending on the circumference of your glass. You want a nice, solid layer of red at the bottom.
- Chill ingredients first so layers last as long as possible.
- Leave about an inch of space at the top of your glass when filling it with crushed ice or small ice cubes. The ice will rise as you add the liquid.
- Pour liquids slowly on to the back of a spoon held right above the drink to ensure clean looking layers.
- This recipe yields one cocktail and should be served immediately and not stored. The ice will melt and dilute the drink, and trying to remove the ice will mix the layers.
If you love recipes like this, you may also enjoy this grape ape shot, purple rain cocktail, love bug cocktail or this white linen cocktail!
Serving Suggestions
- The bright, fruity flavor of this cocktail pairs perfectly with the smoky, meaty flavor of this grilled cheese hamburger topped with bacon.
- This sweet and spicy bacon burger is also a great match for the cherry lemonade flavor of this cocktail.
- For a fantastic backyard bash, serve this cocktail with smoked brats.
- This smoked pizza with BBQ chicken features a zesty, meaty flavor that's perfect with this cocktail
Recipe FAQs
A Bomb Pop cocktail is made with grenadine, lemonade, vodka, and food-safe blue food coloring.
Make sure to slowly pour each layer over top a spoon and make sure ingredients are cool before making your drink.
This cocktail fills an 8-ounce glass and contains 3 ounces of vodka, making it quite strong.
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Check out these other great cocktails for your next party.
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Bomb Pop Cocktail
Equipment
- tall cocktail glass highball or Collins glass
Ingredients
- 1-1½ ounces grenadine see notes
- 1-1 ½ cups pebble ice cubes see notes
- ⅓ cup lemonade
- 3 ounces vodka or any clear liquor divided
- 1-2 drops blue food-safe coloring liquid
Instructions
- Slowly pour grenadine into your glass to prevent much splashing. Use enough to fill at least 1 centimeter in height.
- Carefully add ice into the glass leaving at least 1 inch of space from the top.
- Mix lemonade and 1 ½-ounce vodka into a spouted measuring cup and pour slowly on the back of a spoon into the glass.
- In the same spouted measuring cup add remaining 1 ½-ounce vodka and 1-2 drops of blue coloring and repeat, pouring on the back of the spoon.
- Garnish with a bomb pop popsicle if desired.
Notes
- Depending on the circumference of your glass you may need to use a little more grenadine to reach ½ an inch.
- Chill ingredients first so layers last as long as possible.
- Ensure you leave about 1 inch of space at the top when filling your glass with pebble or crushed ice. The ice will rise as you add the liquid and you still need room for the blue layer.
- This recipe yields one cocktail and should be served immediately and not stored. The ice will melt and dilute the drink, and trying to remove the ice will mix the layers.
- The slower you pour on to the back of a spoon the better the layers will sit on top of one another and not mix.
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