Blue Island Ice Tea Recipes

This Blue Long Island Iced Tea is beautifully bright with a tangy sweet flavor! It's easy to make and deliciously refreshing.

Provided by Sonja Overhiser

Categories     Drink

Time 5m

Number Of Ingredients 8

• Ingredients

This lighter, fruitier version of a Long Island Iced Tea is an eye-catching adaptation of its notorious counterpart, swapping blue Curaçao in for triple sec for a pop of color. Blue Curaçao is a dry orange liqueur that doesn't taste any different from its orange-hued counterpart. Curaçao was created when the Dutch West India Trading Company took over the island of Curaçao in the 19th century, according to historian Albert Frederic Benjamin. The island was covered in native laraha oranges and bitter Seville oranges that Spanish explorers had planted during the Columbian Exchange. Bols claims to have been the first to create Curaçao liqueur, but it is more than likely it was the first to make blue Curaçao, adding blue coloring and selling the product as créme de ciel, or "cream of the sky." The Blue Long Island Iced Tea is a great cocktail to showcase such a unique but misconstrued ingredient, as it holds its own against the powerhouse flavors of vodka, rum, tequila, and gin. This variation also steers away from the original recipe by using a lighter soda instead of Coca-Cola to heighten its blue tone. Some recipes go with ginger ale or energy drinks, but this version opts for a lemon-lime soda.

Provided by Julia Larson

Categories     Cocktail

Time 5m

Yield 1

Number Of Ingredients 9

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 273 calories

This Long Island will knock you down!

Provided by ELWHAITE

Categories     Drinks Recipes     Cocktail Recipes     Vodka Drinks Recipes

Time 5m

Yield 1

Number Of Ingredients 9

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 141.9 calories, Carbohydrate 9.6 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Fat 0 g, Fiber 0.1 g, Protein 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 8.3 mg, Sugar 8.7 g