Purple Rain Drink Recipe (Vodka Cocktail)

This purple rain drink recipe with vodka and sweet pineapple juice is sweet and tasty. A purple cocktail is always a great option for a Halloween party.

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Purple Rain Cocktail Ingredients

To make this purple rain recipe you need just a handful of ingredients. Of course, to make the purple hue you are going to need blue curacao liqueur and grenadine. Here is a full list of what you will need:

3oz vodka
1oz blue curaçao
1 1/2 oz grenadine
2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz lemon-lime soda

To make this purple rain drink recipe you will also need a cocktail shaker, jigger, and bar strainer. You can find them online here:

Purple Rain Drink Recipe vodka ingredients

How to Make a Purple Rain Drink

First, fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Then add the vodka to the shaker.

Next, add the blue curacao to the shaker. The blue color of the curacao is going to help create the deep purple color of this stunning purple drink.

purple rain drink with vodka and blue curaçao

Then add the grenadine to the shaker. Here is where the red color comes in, because we all know that red and blue make the color purple.

how to make a purple rain drink with grenadine

Add the pineapple juice. Using pineapple juice will eliminate the need for simple syrup because pineapple juice is already so naturally sweet.

purple rain cocktail with pineapple juice

Lastly, add the lemon-lime soda to the shaker. Alternatively, you can opt for a sweet and sour mix if that is what you have on hand. Sweet and sour mix is simply a mix of sugar and lemon juice.

lemon lime soda in purple rain drink with vodka

Secure the top on the cocktail shaker and give it a good shake.

Use a bar strainer and strain the purple mixed drink into an ice filled tall glass. We are using highball glasses. You can use a martini glass if you’re feeling fancy.

Purple Rain Cocktail Recipe

Like many fruity cocktails, there are always other ways to mix up this purple rain drink recipe. This is how we like to make it. The vibrant color is so fun.

There are also many options for how to garnish the glass of a purple rain drink. Some like to add blueberry syrup and purple sugar for a purple sugar rim, others garnish this fruit drink with a simple lemon wedge or lime wedge.