Make your holiday mocktails or cocktails more special feeling with easy DIY festive ice cubes. The hardest decision is picking out what you are going to make for a drink. After that, you can choose your ice cube ingredients to match the drink of choice. An easy go-to that pairs with many holiday drinks are cranberry orange ice cubes.
You can use any size ice cube tray, but I’m a big fan of the extra large ice cube trays for this purpose. The look of one large ice cube in a glass really elevates the look.
How to Make DIY Festive Ice Cubes
- Add fruit, fresh herbs, or edible rose petals to an empty ice cube tray.
- Using 2-4 small pieces will float your fruit to the top and give you a plain ice look on the bottom. It still gives your drink plenty of pizazz and requires less ingredients. Adding a lot of ingredients will give you a more 3-D look as there are ingredients on the bottom as well. Keep in mind though, with more ingredients, there is less water so the ice cube melts a lot faster. For this reason, I actually prefer using few ingredients. Also, the ice cube eventually melts leaving whatever ingredients floating in the glass.
- Some more ideas – thyme ice cubes (water and little pieces of fresh thyme), small orange/lemon/lime slices, cranberries and a short rosemary sprig for a red and green theme, tiny fresh mint leaves, or even edible rose petals.
- Fill the ice cube tray with water.
- OR, you can also splash in some cranberry juice or another juice for a colored ice cube look.
- You can also use juice as the liquid as well. This especially works well when you are making a mocktail with cold-pressed juice and don’t want to water it down. You just have to make of batch of the juice beforehand so you can free them into ice cubes.
- Carefully place the tray in the freezer overnight.
Add one large ice cube, maybe a sprig of rosemary or mint, a fresh or dried orange garnish on the rim, and you have yourself a really pretty drink!
This is another ice cube tray packed full with cranberries and oranges. While super pretty and the fruit is throughout the whole cube, it takes a lot longer to freeze and the ice melts extra fast. I prefer using few ingredients like the tray shown above.
Experiment and have fun with your ice cubes, drink ingredients, and garnishes! If you are hosting others, I guarantee these ice cubes will be a hit!
Thank you for joining me here! Xx Riane @herhealthystyle
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