I made this family-friendly, Sunset Slushie recipe as part of a sponsored post for BAILEYS® Coffee Creamers.
Sunrises and sunset are one of life’s little pleasures. I have hundreds of sunrise/sunset pictures. I’m not sure what I am ever going to do with them, but the gorgeous colors in the sky compel me to take pictures. And then the sky changes with every minute, every second and I want to take another photo. Don’t worry, cause I can hear you all the way in the middle of Minnesota telling me to put down my camera and enjoy the moment, I do that too! So, today I am sharing a recipe for a Sunset Slushie that captures some of those beautiful colors of the setting sun.
There are a couple of reasons this drink works. First, the blended ice helps keep the layers separate and second, each layer has a different sugar content. The layer with the least amount of sugar is on top and the one with the most is on the bottom. To get the soft colors and creamy flavor, I used BAILEYS® Coffee Creamers. For this recipe, I chose The Original Irish Cream, but many of the other 14 flavors would taste great too.
Start with the blue slushie layer. Blend together ice, diet citrus soda, BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream and powdered, unsweetened blue drink mix.
Next, blend the pulp-free frozen orange juice concentrate, water, ice and BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream.
Put the orange slushie in cups. Tilt the cups and slowly pour cherry grenadine syrup down the side of the cup.
Since the cherry grenadine syrup has the most sugar, so it will slowly settle on the bottom of the cup.
Carefully spoon the blue slushie on top of the orange slushie.
I made a double batch of these sunset slushies to share at my sister’s birthday party. Everyone thought they were so pretty and so delicious! And there was even some leftover BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream to put in our coffee. This kid-friendly Sunset Slushie recipe is perfect for sharing with family and friends on hot, summer evenings.
- 2 cups ice
- 2 cups diet citrus soda
- 1/4 cup BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream
- 1/2 packet powdered unsweetened blue drink mix (about 1/2 tsp)
- 6 ounces pulp-free frozen orange juice concentrate
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 cups ice
- 3/4 cup BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream
- Cherry grenadine syrup
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Blend together ice, diet citrus soda, BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream and powdered, unsweetened blue drink mix.
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Pour into a container and set it in freezer while making the next layer.
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Blend the pulp-free frozen orange juice concentrate, water, ice and BAILEYS® Original Irish Cream.
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Put the orange slushie in cups.
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Tilt the cups and slowly pour cherry grenadine syrup down the inside of the cup.
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Since the cherry grenadine syrup has the most sugar, it will slowly settle on the bottom of the cup.
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Use the end of a straw to gently stir the cherry grenadine into the bottom of orange slushie to turn it pink.
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Carefully spoon the blue slushie on top of the orange slushie.
Here are a few more drink recipes to try:
Key Lime Cheesecake Milkshake | Blueberry Melon Smoothie | Raspeberry Watermelon Lemonade
Hi, I'm Tonia, a lover of food and photography! Fill a gunny sack with delicious ingredients, tie on an apron and let's get cooking!
For some reason this also reminds me of a unicorn! Looks awesome!
And probably tastes better than the Starbucks unicorn drink too! Hehehe
Very pretty! Will try. Where did you find those glasses?
Thanks Stephanie! I found the at Target. You can see more in this post: https://www.thegunnysack.com/2015/05/very-berry-pretzel-salad-and-lemonade.html
I would have never thought to use coffee creamer in a drink such as this! Genius!
I loved that you used creamer in this drink!! Perfection!
I have seriously been ooohhhhing and ahhhhing over these all day! Seriously gorgeous!
This slushie is so pretty Tonia! I love all the fun layers and such a great idea to use the coffee creamers!
Tonia this is the prettiest drink EVER. And to use the creamers??? GENIUS!!
These are so pretty and totally fun!!
This is such a pretty slushie! Perfect for summer cool down!
Super cute and festive drink – perfect for the summer! Gotta love the Bailey’s too! 😉
I just love the idea of using coffee creamer in slushies! Definitely trying this this summer!
This is so very beautiful, and much easier to make than I originally thought! Thanks for sharing!
What a BEAUTIFUL drink, Tonia! I would love to serve this to my family this summer. They would be so impressed!