Orange Mocktail

An invigorating glassful that is sure to shake your taste buds out of their reverie! This super simpler two-ingredient recipe is going to be your best friend in the scorching heat. You can make this up in less than a minute, so it’s perfect to make for guests and ideal to sip on a sunny afternoon.

Even if you have taken both the ingredients out of the fridge to make this mocktail, you should still refrigerate the end product for half an hour or so before serving to get back the chillness lost during blending, because this drink is best enjoyed really, truly chilling.

Knowledge Corner

Before starting with this recipe, let us dwell on some of the amazing insights about Mocktails-

• Mocktails, a portmanteau for “mock cocktails” are festive, non-alcoholic party drinks.
• They are generally made using juices, cream, sugar, honey, fruits, herbs and soda.
• They are also known as virgin cocktails or zero-proof drinks.
• The invention of this beverage was mainly targeted at children and teetotalers.
• Compared to cocktails, it is quite easy to prepare as the whole process involves only mixing different nonalcoholic beverages in different proportions.
• Shirley Temple is believed to be the world’s first mocktail.

Difference between Mocktail and Cocktail

Cocktails and Mocktails are two varieties of beverages that are being consumed all over the world. Let us see how both these beverages differ from each other

• Cocktails have a significant alcoholic content whereas Mocktails are non-alcoholic drinks.
• Preparation of cocktail is more standard because it requires mixing various drinks at the right proportion whereas mocktails have no such standard procedure.
• Cocktails exhibit bitter or sour taste and Mocktails are generally sweet in taste.
• Cocktails are costlier because of their alcoholic content as compared to Mocktails.
• Cocktails can cause hangovers because of their alcoholic content as compared to Mocktails.
• The government of different nations have highlighted the minimum age under which an individual is allowed to consume a cocktail whereas there is no age limit to consume Mocktails.

Ingredients

• Vanilla Ice Cream
• 1-litre bottle Fanta or Miranda

How to prepare

• First, take one and a half scoops of vanilla ice cream and ½ bottle of Fanta and blend it in a mixer.
• Refrigerate the same for half-hour.
• Take it in a serving glass and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to it.
• Your chilled orange mocktail is all ready to serve