Serve this beautiful Cotton Candy Drink for baby showers, birthdays, New Year's Eve, or any kid-friendly party. Celebrate with super fun and incredibly easy mocktails to help our younger party guests feel included in your celebration!
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Cotton Candy Drink
Are these mocktails super fun, or what? One year during the holidays we wanted to ring in the cheer, but to make sure we included the kids too! What I came up with is this festive Cotton Candy Drink that has been the biggest hit ever since!
If you have a girlie party, let me tell you this is the mocktail for you. It's so much fun to make these festive drinks.
And if you're serving this for a grown get-together you can always add in a shot of vodka. How fun would that be?!!!
Cotton Candy Cocktail
For this exact version, I used a sparkling pink lemonade found in the regular non-alcoholic section of the grocery store. Use any color or flavor that best fits your guests or celebration!
There are a few brands that make pink soda, Jones, Goya. We've used raspberry ginger ale, but you could also use strawberry soda. You could even use a juice you know will be a hit, like pineapple juice, grape juice, or cranberry juice.
Pick up a container of cotton candy, typically available at party stores. You can also purchase a variety of Classic Cotton Candy online. Blue and pink cotton candy are the most popular,r but you can also find other varieties.
Ingredients
This is a brief overview of the easy cotton candy mocktail recipe. For step-by-step instructions and a full printable recipe card with ingredients, please scroll down to the teal box below.
- Soda: For these, I used pink soda (specifically, Jones Fufu Berry). You can use ay sort of soda or sparkling juice. I have also made them with raspberry ginger ale and once with fruit juice and a splash of club soda.
- Cotton Candy: You can find cotton candy in various colors and flavors online.
Ang's Tip
If you pour the soda or carbonated drinks over cotton candy, it will make for a very festive presentation as it will bubble up and over. To avoid this, add the cotton candy after the drink has been poured.
Recipe Variations
You could even add fresh fruit, such as a strawberry or cherry, to this family-friendly cotton candy drink recipe. A scoop of raspberry sherbet would also be a pretty addition!
These fun cotton candy mocktail drinks are such a simple recipe that they make it easy to customize to your party theme and guests' taste. Here are some other ideas:
- Baby Shower for a boy: Grab some blue cotton candy and serve up blue raspberry juice with sparkling cider for a baby boy! That would also be perfect for the 4th of July!!
- Halloween: Grab some orange cotton candy mixed with orange juice and sparkling water - how fun!
- Bridal Shower: Use the wedding colors to inspire your own fun combination.
- Graduation Party: Celebrate the new grad using their school colors.
Get creative! Add sparkling sugar around the rim of the glass, or add a fun paper straw.
More of my favorite fun mocktails!
You don't need alcohol to make fun drinks for a New Year's Eve party or any other event! Here are a few more of my favorites:
Also, check out the mocktail versions of our mermaid cocktails and raspberry mojitos.
Related: Mermaid Party Ideas
Sparkling Cotton Candy Drink
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Ingredients
- 2 cans Raspberry Ginger Ale
- cotton candy
Instructions
- Chill the glasses ahead of time.
- Pour the sparkling beverage of choice in as you’re ready to serve them. (If serving juice instead of a carbonated beverage, pour and chill at the same time).2 cans Raspberry Ginger Ale
- Simply add a tuft of the cotton candy to the top of the glass right before serving.cotton candy
Notes
Melissa says
Can you make this up ahead of time? Like mix all together before the party starts?
Ang Paris says
I think it is best to wait until the last minute to put the cotton candy garnish on top! 🙂
Dian Farmer says
I went to a wine tasting a few years ago and had a cotton candy flavored wine and I have never found it anywhere (I should have written the name down), so this will work! Thanks for sharing your cotton candy mocktail.
Angela Paris says
Hi Amanda! Thanks for your note, I love hearing when I reader finds something useful and fun. Happy belated birthday to your daughter!