Superhero Drink Idea
It seems to be a super superhero week around my blog! A few days ago I shared my Superhero M&M Muddy Buddy recipe with you…and today I’m sharing an easy drink idea to celebrate little superheroes in your life. It’s a well known fact by now, my son loves all things Marvel and superhero related…and he’s been a big Disney fan for quite some time now. We got him Disney Infinity last year as a Christmas present and didn’t quite realize how much he’d like the game!! Over the course of the past year we’ve used Disney Infinity as a rewards system of sorts for good behavior, taking time to learn and practice letters and numbers, and more. Now that we’ve exhausted the Disney side of it, we were excited to see that they came out with a whole new Marvel line of games!! So today we thought we’d share an easy Superhero Drink Idea for all the little superheroes in your life!!
How to Make Super Hero Drinks
The idea for this drinks is SOOO simple…simply take a more heavily sugared drink for the bottom (at least 10g of sugar difference) and then a more lightly sugar concentrated drink for the top. In this situation I used cranberry juice for the bottom and I used blue and yellow gatorades for the top. Add some ice, pour your most heavily concentrated drink at the bottom and then the gatorade on top. It actually keeps itself layered!!
Add a cute striped straw and give to your little budding superhero!
Pair with my M&M Superhero Muddy Buddy recipe and you have a recipe for a successful family Disney themed night!!
How to Make Layered Drinks
- The order in which you pour is the most important aspect. You want to start with the liquid that has the greatest specific gravity, and decrease as you ascend. That way they liquids won’t try to pass through each other, which will mostly likely just end in blending. Terrible stupid blending! Start with the sweetest, most sugar dense liquid, and go up from there until you have the least-sweet, least sugary liquid at the top.
- Pouring technique is critically important. This definitely takes a steady hand. If you pour too fast, the top layer will plunge down into the one under it, which will cause mixing. That ain’t pretty, and prettiness is what this drink is all about (prettiness and science).
Oh my son is going to love these … thanks for sharing!
This is such a fun idea!! Love it!
It’s a beverage and a science project in one! Love it! #client
Cute! My boys would love it! Thanks for sharing!
-Michelle @The Gracious Wife
So simple, but so crafty! My son will love the Iron Man combo!
Yes! Big hit in my household!!
What a great idea! I have seen the layered drinks before but never tried one. Do they taste good? I always wonder when you read the ingredients how it tastes when you drink. Do the flavors mix? Or do they stay seperate while you drink (kind of like a popcycle?) I’d love to know.
This is such a fun idea that I’ve pinned it to my Superhero party pinboard. I’m sure so many of my Pinterest friends will love it as much as I. Thanks so much for sharing. And have fun with your superhero game this weekend. I hear it’s a fun one.
Hi Kim! Yes, they taste good…the flavors don’t mix. They stay separated. 🙂 You can actually good drink mixing and it gives suggestions for levels of sugar…but general guideline is 10g of sugar difference per layer…so you start with the most sugary flavor at the bottom and the possibilities and combos are endless! Have fun!!
And P.S. the superhero game is a huge hit…the boys are playing it now 😉
Really they stay separated? I need to try this!
Yes they do, you have to pour carefully and choose the drink combinations wisely 🙂
Ugh, I’m doing this today for my son’s Iron Man party and the colors are just mixing together. So bummed!! I’m using cranberry which is 30g sugar and the Gatorade is 21g. Are they not enough apart? I didn’t look at that while shopping. I just bought the ingredients.
Please help my colors are mixing too.. 🙁
The sugar content has to be far enough apart. They will mix a tad, as you can see in my photo, but you should still have visible layers.
Would Hawaiian Punch work for the bottom with Gatorade on top? Or even just a food coloring colored water?
I’d have to see the sugar content. It’s all about the sugar content. Food coloring wouldn’t have sugar in it (plus wouldn’t taste very good).
Hello!
so I tried this because I want to do it for my son’s birthday party tomorrow. I got fruit punch which has 31g sugar and powerade zero with less than 3g of sugar but they are just mixing. Any ideas on why?
Hi Ashley, I’m sorry to hear you’re having issues! I have no idea why it wouldn’t work…maybe the Powerade has too little sugar? Google “layered drinks” because it gives lots of suggestions on how to choose your colors…I did some research on what drinks would work best before I wrote this post.
I want to do this for my little sisters baby shower.. should I have them poured in cups? or will pouring them from a pitcher mix the up?
Pouring from a pitcher won’t work. YOu can either do a large layered drink from something with a spout at the bottom or you need to do them individually.
Just curious if you have made this is a big juice pitcher?
Trying this for my kid’s superheroes party but it mixes every time! I bought kool aid (38g) and yellow powerade (21g) but can’t get the layers 🙁
Oh man…I’m sorry, it can be tricky. As you can see, it worked for me the first time, but I’ve had problems on other occasions too. I’m not sure why?!