Artificial Food Coloring Free Chilled Strawberry Lime Sparkling Cooler
Bright, tangy, and naturally beautiful, this sparkling cooler is the kind of drink that looks like it came from a fancy café but comes together entirely in your own kitchen. Real strawberries blended with fresh lime juice and maple syrup give it that vivid pink-red color — no dyes, no artificial anything, just fruit doing what fruit does best. Store-bought flavored sodas and drink mixes are notorious for sneaking in synthetic colorings, so making your own from scratch is genuinely the easiest way to sidestep all of that. Straining the blended base through a fine-mesh sieve gives the finished drink a smooth, elegant texture that feels polished without any extra effort. The sparkling water gets folded in gently right before serving, so every glass stays fizzy and refreshing. Poured over ice with a lime slice and a sprig of fresh mint, it's the kind of thing that disappears fast at a summer gathering — and people will absolutely ask you for the recipe.
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4 servings
- 32 medium strawberries (about 400 g), hulled and halved
- ¼ cup fresh lime juice (from about 2 limes)
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup cold water
- 1 tsp lime zest
- 2 cups sparkling water, chilled
For serving
- 2 cups ice cubes
- 4 lime slices (optional)
- 4 fresh mint sprigs (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Combine the strawberries, lime juice, maple syrup, cold water, and lime zest in a blender. Blend on high until completely smooth, about 30–45 seconds.
- 2
Pour the blended mixture through a fine-mesh strainer set over a pitcher, pressing the solids with the back of a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids.
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