Inside Out cocktails

Last year I had an Inside Out themed party for my birthday. The good old days when we could have parties! Of course I love a good theme, so I decided to get into it and create food and drink items in 5 different colors to match each of the 5 emotions. In addition to snacks and an Inside Out cake, of course I had to make some Inside Out cocktails!

I did some research to find 5 cocktails in the 5 different colors. Some were easier than others – there were plenty of blue options (mostly using blue curacao) and a lot of different drinks that had midori for green. Purple definitely turned out to be the most challenging one. I also wanted to provide a variety of types of cocktails so it wasn’t all overly sweet and fruity cocktails. In the end I think we had a pretty good assortment, though the blue margarita seemed to be the biggest hit!

Below I’m happy to share my Inside Out cocktails:

Joy Lemoncello cocktail

• sugar
• 2 – 3 drops yellow food coloring
• lemon slices
• 1 tablespoon Lemoncello liqueur
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• Prosecco or other dry sparkling wine

To garnish glass before making cocktail – combine sugar with a few drops of yellow food coloring. Stir well into color is distributed. Rub the rim of the glass with a a cut lemon, then dip rim of glass in the sugar.

Pour 1 tablespoon of Lemoncello into glass. Add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Fill glass with prosecco and garnish with a lemon slice!

Sadness margarita cocktail

• 2 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. blue curaçao
• 1 oz. triple sec
• 1 oz. lime juice
• Salt

Rim the glass with salt. Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into the margarita glass.

Anger whiskey cocktail

• 2 oz. Fireball cinnamon whiskey
• 3 oz. ginger ale
• splash of grenadine

Pour cinnamon whisky, ginger ale, and grenadine over ice. Serve immediately.

Fear Blackberry Mule cocktail

• 1 ounce vodka
• 2 tablespoons blackberry simple syrup
• 1/2 cup ginger beer
• 1 sprig of fresh mint
• blackberry

In a copper mug or glass, pour vodka over ice. Add the blackberry syrup, top with ginger beer, and stir. Garnish with mint sprig and a blackberry.

Disgust Midori cocktail

• 1.5 oz. Midori
• 0.5 oz. Vodka
• 0.5 oz. Cointreau (or Triple Sec)
• 1.5 oz. Pineapple Juice
• 0.5 oz. Lemon Juice

Fill a shaker with ice. Add all ingredients and shake well. Strain over a glass with ice.

Other blog posts of interest:

Throwing an Inside Out birthday party
Inside Out cake
Tangled themed birthday party
Joy and Fear Inside Out Halloween costumes
Wreck-It Ralph themed birthday party

Which of these Inside Out cocktails would you most like to try?