
Why I Love This Color-Changing Lemonade
The main reason I love this color-changing lemonade - is just that - it changes colors! What a fun way to make a drink. I don't know many drinks that get their color from natural ingredients. You can grow your own butterfly pea flowers, I'm planning on growing them in 2022!
Butterfly pea flowers are naturally a beautiful dark blue color. As a matter of fact, for years, these flowers have been used to add color to teas, rice, and desserts. The flowers themselves are also edible, so you can eat them after you make this recipe if you choose. I'd recommend letting the flowers float in the drink for an added pop of color.
When you add an acid - like lemon or lime juice - to the butterfly pea tea, a reaction occurs, and the color changes!
What Does The Color-Changing Lemonade Taste Like?
After you brew the butterfly pea tea the flavor is very plain - I don't taste anything. However, if I eat the flower itself, it is very bland - a slight hint of some flavor, but bland. I've learned that edible flowers are made for show as all of the edible flowers I've tried have had no flavor.
I recommend mixing your lemon simple syrup as lemony as you can handle. Remember, you are watering it down with the butterfly pea tea. With all recipes, taste as you go, and know you can always add in more lemon later.
This color-changing lemonade tastes like any other lemonade since the butterfly pea has no flavor. To boost the flavor, I highly recommend adding cold-frothed milk. Frothed milk allowed me to add a new flavor layer (I used cake flavor). Having an ice-cold lemonade with cold foam on top transported me to a beach even though it was cold outside.
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