Mocktail Mixology Drinks & Recipes

Mocktail Recipes

Colorful drinks on a table

Game Day Recipes

Gridiron Green Limeade

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce simple syrup
  • 2 ounces of freshly squeezed lime juice
  • Lime-flavored sparkling water to fill the glass
  • Chili lime seasoning
  • Lime slices for garnish

Steps

  1. Wet the rim of the glass with a lime wedge or water.
  2. Sprinkle chili lime seasoning on a plate and rim the glass with it.
  3. In the same glass, combine the simple syrup, lime juice and lime flavored soda.
  4. Garnish with a lime wedge and enjoy!

End Zone Blush

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces of strawberry syrup
  • 1/4 ounce of almond syrup
  • 5 ounces of coconut milk
  • Ice

Steps

  1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, strawberry syrup, almond syrup and coconut milk
  2. Shake to chill and combine
  3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice and enjoy!

Italian Cream Soda

Ingredients

  • Club soda
  • 2-3 tablespoons of raspberry (or any other fruit) syrup
  • 1-2 tablespoons of half and half
  • Fresh fruit and/or whipped cream to garnish

Steps

  1. Combine raspberry syrup and club soda to your sweetness preference
  2. Add half and half and mix
  3. Add ice and optional garnish(es) and enjoy!

Husker Sunset

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces pineapple juice
  • 2 ounces club soda
  • 3 ounces of cranberry sauce
  • Fresh or frozen cranberries to garnish

Steps

1. Mix club soda and pineapple juice in glass of ice
2. Put a spoon on the side of the cup and slowly pour the cranberry juice into the drink along the spoon (the cranberry juice and pineapple juice should be separated, creating a sunset effect)
3. Garnish with cranberries and enjoy.

Fall & Halloween Recipes

Apple Ginger Fizz

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces of apple cider
  • 2-3 dashes of cinnamon bitters (optional)
  • Non-alcoholic ginger beer
  • Apple slice for garnish

Steps

  1. Combine ice, apple cider, and cinnamon bitters
  2. Top off with ginger beer and garnish with apple slice. Enjoy!

Husker Mule

Ingredients

  • Ginger ale or ginger beer
  • Splash of lime juice
  • Club soda
  • Mint leaves (optional garnish)

Steps

  1. Combine ginger ale or ginger beer with the lime juice to your taste preference
  2. Top with club soda and optional mint garnish. Enjoy!

Apple Barley Old Fashioned

Ingredients

  • 1 ounce barley tea (brew 2 tea bags in 10 ounces of almost boiling water, set aside and let cool)
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters
  • 5 dashes molasses bitters
  • 1/4 ounce simple syrup
  • 5 ounces apple cider
  • Optional splash of club soda
  • Optional garnish of cherries and orange peel

Steps

  1. Combine chilled barley tea, bitters, simple syrup and apple cider in a glass.
  2. Add ice and top with club soda
  3. Add optional garnish(es) and enjoy! 

Creepy Shirley Temple

Ingredients

  • Ginger ale
  • Maraschino cherries
  • Grenadine
  • Food-safe syringe

Steps

  1. Combine ginger ale and a few maraschino cherries in a clear glass
  2. Fill a syringe with grenadine and place it in the glass
  3. When ready to drink, use the syringe to dispense grenadine to your sweetness preference

Cider Sangria

Ingredients

  • 3 ounces apple cider
  • 5 ounces fresh lime juice
  • 3/4 ounce pear syrup
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
  • 1 tablespoon diced apples and pears
  • Club soda

Steps

  1. Combine apple cider, lime juice, pear syrup, orange bitters and diced fruit in a glass and mix well.
  2. Top with club soda and enjoy!

Winter & Valentine's Day Recipes

Non-nip Snakebite

Ingredients

  • 1 can of non-alcoholic stout beer
  • Apple juice

Steps

  1. Combine apple juice and nonalcoholic beer in a glass and enjoy!

Hazelnut Coffee

Ingredients

  • 3 cups brewed coffee
  • 1/2 cup half and half
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup of hazelnut spread (like Nutella)
  • Optional toppings: whipped cream, chocolate shavings or sprinkles

Steps

  1. Heat the coffee in a pot on the stovetop on medium heat 
  2. Stir in white sugar and hazelnut spread until well combined
  3. Take the pot off the heat and add half and half
  4. Ladle into mugs and add optional toppings

Husker Sweetheart Serenade

Ingredients

  • 1/2 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1 tablespoon simple syrup
  • 1/3 cup pomegranate or cranberry juice
  • 3 ounces coconut water

Steps

  1. Combine lime juice, simple syrup, and pomegranate or cranberry juice and stir
  2. Add ice cubes
  3. Top with coconut water

Cornhusker Crush

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup coconut water
  • 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries
  • 12 mint leaves
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice (about 1 lime)
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 cup club soda
  • Optional garnishes: strawberries, mint, lime wedges

Steps

  1. In a blender, blend together coconut water, strawberries, mint leaves, lime juice, and honey on high until smooth.
  2. Fill two glasses with ice cubes. Divide the blended mixture between the glasses and top off with club soda.