TikTok’s New Drink Craze Teaches You How to Make Slushies
Sales of liquor have reportedly improved despite the COVID-19 crisis. More so, home bartenders are becoming craftier with their concoctions by the day. Interestingly, the latest recipe of TikTok, mixologist wannabes, share their "best fruit slushies using White Claw."
Here's the good news: These slushies are very easy to make. For the preparation of this icy drink, with what's described as "serious summertime vibes," TitkTokkers pour hard seltzers, in flavors like grapefruit, raspberry, lime, and black cherry, to name some, and frozen or fresh fruit into a blender filled with ice, and blend them until they become smooth.
What's Making the White Claw Slushies Special
In a report from Delish, it was indicated that those with brave souls, they add more tequila, rum, or vodka to add an extra punch. And, even though trends come and go, particularly on TikTok, Slushies infused with flavored White Claw are enjoying quite a moment as many people remain indoors in the middle of the prolonged stay-at-home orders continue across the majority of the nation in the battle against the pandemic.
As of Tuesday, there were more than 31,000 posts "tagged as #WhiteClawSlushy" on this popular video-sharing platform.
Marketed as a healthier substitute to hard cider or beer, this low-calorie drink jumped more than 280 percent year-on-year in July last year, with a net of over $327 million, Nielsen data said.
Tiktok Popularizes White Claw Slushies
At this time of social distancing, everybody is looking for creative and productive ways to entertain themselves easily. And to ease boredom and have fun, a lot of people nowadays are on TikTok.
More particularly, according to some tech observers, the trend took off on this popular video-sharing app after Julia Abner, a film producer, posted a recipe video presenting to her followers how to boost their White Claw with the use of frozen berries and vodka.
Just recently, TikTok swiftly went viral, gaining "1.5 million views and 335,000 likes in just more than two weeks." Not long after, innumerable people started to create her original recipe, posting their versions, also on TikTok.
Get to Know this Fast-Becoming Popular Slushie Ingredient
For those who do not know, "White Claw is a hard seltzer" that turned into a favorite "during the semi-recent spiked seltzer craze" More so, it indeed, transformed into something huge in last year's summer season via The Takeout.
This beverage is quite what it has claimed to be-well-patronized seltzer water with five-percent alcohol, coming from fermented sugars. Some of this drink's popularity is based on its claim of being made organically or pure.
And as mentioned, last week, famous influencers on social media, particularly on TikTok, started to create fun recipes of slushie using this White Claw as the base ingredient.
Abner, as she presented to followers her slushie recipe, instructed them to create the beverage by blending one can of White Claw with vodka and frozen berries for a simple frozen cocktail.
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