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What do you need to make a Blueberry Slush Mocktail?

• Frozen blueberries
• Mint
• Simple syrup
• Lemon juice
• Blackberry Bubly
• Blueberries and Blackberries
• Blender
• Wine glasses

How to Make a Blueberry Slush Mocktail?

Put 2 cups of frozen blueberries, 1 tbsp of lemon juice, and 3oz of simple syrup into a blender and blend into a puree. You may need to add a small amount of water while blending.

Once blended, place the blueberry slush into the freezer for about 20 minutes to refreeze.

Once refrozen, put the blueberry slush into a wine glass.

Add some crushed mint leaves to the blueberry slush.

Then, top with Blackberry Bubly.

Add some fresh blueberries and more mint to taste!

Delicious Mocktail!

We hope you loved this Blueberry Slush Mocktail as much as we do! If you’re looking for more ways to spoil mom this Mother’s Day, certainly check out our other Mother’s Day crafts, DIY’s and recipes below!

More Mother’s Day Recipes:

• Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Bars
• Pink Whitney Limeade Drink
• Mother’s Day Tea Sandwiches

Mother’s Day Kids Crafts and DIY:

• Nail Polish Marble Mugs
• Easy Garden Markers for Kids to Make
• How to Make a Pea Pod Necklace

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Blueberry Slush Mocktail

This Blueberry Slush Mocktail is a delicious frozen drink made with frozen blueberries, simple sugar, lemon juice, and Blackberry Bubly, served topped with fresh blueberries and mint leaves. It's a perfect drink to make for Mom this Mother's Day! Grab your blender and let's mix it up!

Course Cocktails

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword Blueberry, mocktail

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Freezing time 15 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 2 Mocktails

Calories 220kcal

Cost $10

Equipment

• blender

Ingredients

• 2 cups Frozen blueberries
• 3 oz Simple syrup
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• Mint leaves
• 2 cans Blackberry Bubly
• Fresh blackberries and blueberries

Instructions

• Put frozen blueberries, lemon juice, and simple syrup into a blender and blend into a puree. You may need to add a small amount of water while blending
• Put the blueberry slush into the freezer for about 20 minutes to refreeze.
• Pour blueberry slush into two wine glass
• Add crushed mint leaves
• Top with Blackberry Bubly
• Add blackberries and blueberries

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The Galway is an easy cocktail to make, all you’ll need is a dram of gin, a trickle of lime juice, a splash of simple syrup, some slices o’cucumber and mint. The muddled cucumber and mint makes for a super refreshing feel, making this cocktail drink light. Bonus – because it doesn’t sit heavy like a pint of Irish beer, you can keep sipping them all night long. Sláinte! 

What you’ll need:

• Cucumber
• Mint
• Simple syrup
• Lime
• Gin
• Club soda
• Green food colouring
• Cocktail shaker
• Muddler
• Ice
• Highball glasses
• Jigger

The Galway – a Cucumber Mint Cocktail

Peel and thinly slice some cucumber and then place inside a cocktail shaker. Add 10 leaves of fresh mint.

Muddle the cucumber and mint until the cucumber is soft.

Add ice, the simple syrup, lime juice, food colouring and then gin to the shaker. Shake vigorously for a couple of minutes, until the shaker feels chilled in your hands.

Strain the cocktail into the prepared highball glass and then top off with some club soda.

Garnish with mint, cucumber and lime slices and then serve chilled.

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The Galway – a cucumber mint cocktail

We’ve been getting into the green spirit(s) in preparation for one of the most carefree of holidays – St. Patrick’s Day. Green beer my be a go-to at the pubs but since most of us are house bound this year, we think this year is the perfect time to brush up on your bartending skills with our newest cocktail creation, The Galway – a Cucumber Mint Cocktail. It will easily become your new St. Pat’s fav!

Course Cocktails

Cuisine Holiday

Keyword cocktail, fresh, minty, St. Patrick’s Day

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

0 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 1 cocktail

Calories 270kcal

Cost $5

Equipment

• Cocktail shaker
• Jigger
• Muddler
• Highball glasses

Ingredients

• Cucumber slices Peeled
• 10 Mint leaves Plus extra for garnish
• 1 oz Simple syrup
• 1 oz Lime juice
• 2 drops Green food colouring
• Ice
• 2 oz Gin
• 3-4 oz Club soda

Instructions

• Peel and slice some cucumber slices, about 10 is good. Place into a cocktail shaker.
• Add mint leaves to the cocktail shaker and muddle until cucumber is soft and mint is fragrant.
• Add ice, simple syrup, lime juice, food colouring and gin to the shaker.
• Shake! Until the shaker feels chilled.
• Strain into a highball glass.
• Top up with club soda.
• Add garnish and enjoy!

We hope you have a fabulous St. Patrick’s Day! For another tasty green cocktail, check out our Lucky Green Smash and then sooth your sweet tooth with our Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting and our Rainbow Truffles.

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If you like a nice high twirl of frosting – we definitely do! – we suggest doubling the ingredients. This will ensure you have enough frosting to generously decorate two dozen cupcakes.

What you’ll need:

• Chocolate cupcakes (recipe below)
• Cupcake liners
• Peppermint buttercream frosting (recipe below)
• Piping bag
• Large star piping tip
• Green gel food colouring
• Mixer
• Muffin tin

Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

Make the chocolate cupcake batter using the recipe below. Line a muffin tin with liners and then fill with each cup with three generous tablespoons of batter.

Bake the cupcakes in the oven for about 20 mins.

In an electric mixer, cream together butter and vegetable shortening. We chose to use shortening in this frosting recipe, opposed to all butter, because we wanted to get a real white frosting. Using all butter will taste a little bit better, but will make a more cream colour frosting.

Add powdered sugar, one cup at a time and mix well.

Divide the frosting in half and colour one bowl green. We recommend using a gel food colouring as the liquid kind can dilute the texture of the frosting.

Transfer the frosting in two lines onto plastic wrap and then roll into a log. You could also use a spatula to fill a piping bag directly with the two colours of icing. It’s a little bit of a messier method but works just as well.

Place the plastic wrap frosting log into a piping bag, with a large star tip attached.

Decorate the cupcakes with large twirls of frosting. Starting of the outside of the cupcake and pipe circles, moving inward, allowing the frosting to pile up on itself until you reach a peak. Then stop applying pressure to the piping bag and pull it away from the cupcake.

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting

Chocolate may be the ultimate cake flavour and peppermint happens to perfectly complement it. Luckily, just in time for St. Patrick's Day, when you put them together you get a delicious combination is hard to resist. Upgrade your March 17th celebration this year by making these Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting – they happen to go perfectly with a pint of Guinness too!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword Chocolate, cupcake, frosting, green, minty, St. Patrick’s Day, white

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Decorating Time 10 minutes

Total Time 1 hour

Servings 24 Cupcakes

Calories 301kcal

Cost $30

Equipment

• Mixer
• Two mixing bowls
• Two medium bowls
• Cupcake liners
• Muffin tin
• Piping bag
• Large star tip
• Kettle

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 1 3/4 cups Flour
• 2 cups Sugar
• 3/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa powder
• 2 tsp Baking soda
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Brewed coffee
• 1 cup Heavy cream Thicker milk can be used as a substitute
• 1/2 cup Vegetable oil
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract

Peppermint Frosting

• 1/2 cup Butter
• 1/2 cup Vegetable shortening
• 4 cups Powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp Milk
• 2 tsp Peppermint extract

Instructions

Cupcakes

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Fill a muffin tin with cupcakes liners.
• In a mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, coffee, cream, oil and vanilla.
• Pour the coffee mix into the dry mixture and mix until thoroughly combined (about 2 mins).
• Add three generous tablespoons of batter to each cupcake liner.
• Bake 20-25 minutes. Let cool completely before decorating.

Peppermint Frosting

• In a mixer, cream together butter and shortening.
• Beat in the peppermint extract and combine thoroughly.
• Add the powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until fully mixed into the butter mixture.
• Add the milk and beat until light fluffy.

We hope you enjoy these St. Patrick’s Day Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Frosting! If you’re looking for more St. Pat’s inspiration, check out our Rustic Lucky Signboard and our Clover Chair Sashes. We have tons of St. Patrick’s Day DIY, crafts and recipes for you to choose from. Head on over to our St. Patrick’s Day page.

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A beautiful blue sugar rim is essential when creating a fancy martini like this one – especially for the holidays.  The trick to making the sugar stay on the glass is to use a sticky liquid – like lemon juice – to really get full coverage and staying power.

What you’ll need:

• Blue decorating sugar
• Lemon juice
• Vodka
• Ice
• Peppermint schnapps
• Crème de cacao
• Cocktail shaker
• Jigger
• Sponge

Let’s make a Polar Bear Martini!

Pour the blue decorating sugar onto a plate and then some lemon juice into a pinch bowl.

Dip a small sponge into the lemon juice and then use it to liberally cover the rim of the glass.

Turn the glass lined with lemon juice over onto the plate of sugar and then spin a few times until the rim is fully covered.

Add some ice and then 1oz of vodka to the cocktail shaker.

Next, add 1/2oz of Crème De Cacao to the shaker,

and then 1/2oz of peppermint schnapps.

Secure the lid tightly and shake to mix.

Pour the Polar Bear Martini (minus the ice) into a martini glass and then serve!

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Polar Bear Martini

We've reinvented the classis shot – refreshing, minty and oh so Christmassy – into a grown up, classy cocktail.

Course Drinks

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword Christmas, cocktail, martini, minty, vodka

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 0 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 1 Cocktail

Calories 120kcal

Cost $10

Equipment

• Cocktail shaker
• Plate
• Pinch bowl
• Martini glass
• Small sponge

Ingredients

• 1 ounce Vodka
• 1/2 ounce Crème de Cacao
• 1/2 ounce Peppermint schnapps
• Ice
• Blue decorating sugar
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice

Instructions

• Pour the decorating sugar onto a flat plate.
• Use a small sponge dipped into lemon juice from pinch bowl to liberally cover the rim a martini glass.
• Once covered in lemon juice, turn the glass upside down onto the plate of sugar and spin a few times until the glass rim is completely covered in sugar.
• Put some ice into the cocktail shaker.
• Pour in the vodka, crème de cacao and peppermint schnapps.
• Put the lid tightly on the shaker and shake vigorously for 10 seconds.
• Pour the finished cocktail into the prepared martini glasses and enjoy!

If you are looking for more great holiday ideas, we recommend our Natural Peanut Butter Snowballs and our Santa Silhouette Craft with Free Templates.

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A huge bonus with this project is you don’t have to take it down on February 15! By choosing unique patterns and colours, this pretty triptych can fit into any room in your home. It’s also low-cost. Cheap, easy, quick and reusable –the perfect kind of holiday project? However you decide to display it, it’s sure to bring you a lovin’ feeling just in time for Valentine’s Day.

What you’ll need:

• 3 square canvases
• Paint that complements your patterned paper
• Patterned scrapbook paper, wrapping paper or wall paper
• Scissors
• Mod Podge
• Foam brush and paint brush

Paint the canvases in your base colour and let dry.

Cut three matching hearts out of your floral paper.

Use the Mod Podge and a foam brush to glue and seal the hearts in place. Be sure to spread the glue on top of and underneath the paper hearts.

In 15 minutes you  have a beautiful floral triptych to display or give away, we’d love to see your take on this craft so please share with us in the comments. Happy crafting!

For more Valentine’s Day decorations certainly check out our Heart Cards Garland.

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