Sonic Ocean Water Recipe - Fake Ginger

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This Sonic Ocean Water recipe is a must have for summer! Sprite or 7Up mixed with coconut extract for the perfect tropical mocktail! A little bit of food dye and some fish gummies really make it look like ocean water!

Originally posted August 8, 2013. Updated April 21, 2021.

What’s your go-to Sonic drink?

I’m a vanilla Diet Coke girl most days but every once in awhile I crave an Ocean Water. Especially during summer because it just tastes like something you should be drinking on a beach.

What Is Sonic’s Ocean Water?

If you’ve never had Ocean Water, it’s a bubbly coconut lime drink that you can order at the fast-food chain Sonic. It is delicious and tastes like summer in a cup!

There’s no caffeine in it and you can even get a diet version if you ask for Sprite Zero instead of regular Sprite!

For this at home version, you can also use Sprite Zero or Diet 7Up to make it lower calorie.

Ingredients

• Water – this recipe starts by making a simple sugar syrup.
• Granulated sugar – this is going in the simple sugar syrup.
• Coconut flavoring – this is going to give the Ocean Water that tropical flavor that you love! You can find it in the baking aisle of your grocery store with all of the other extracts.
• Blue food coloring – this is, of course, going to make the drink blue and look like the ocean.
• Lemon lime soda – 7Up, Sprite, or any other lemon lime soda. Feel free to use the diet version, too!
• Swedish Fish – not required but aren’t they cute?!

Instructions

• Make simple syrup. Combine water and sugar in a small microwave-safe bowl. Heat in microwave for about 1 minute. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved.
• Make Ocean Water. Pour the sugar mixture into a pitcher. Add coconut extract, foot coloring, and soda. Stir to combine.
• Serve. Pour over ice with Swedish fish gummy candies!

How Long Is It Good For?

Ocean Water is best as soon as it’s made. Because it’s made with carbonated soda, the bubbles will start to go away as soon as you make it.If you need to make it ahead, you can make the sugar water syrup and store it in the fridge until you are ready to serve it.

Storing Leftovers

If you do have leftovers, I suggest putting it in a bottle with a lid so that it keeps the carbonatio in as much as possible. It should last a day or 2 if you store it like that.

How To Make It a Cocktail?

If you are serving this to adults, skip the coconut extract and add a shot of coconut rum to each glass!

More Kid Friendly Drink Recipes

• Homemade Shamrock Shake
• Homemade Sports Drink
• Homemade Strawberry Milkshakes
• Reese’s Pieces Milkshake
• Cantaloupe Agua Fresca

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Continue to Content Prep Time 5 minutes Total Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons water
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon coconut extract
• 3 drops blue food coloring
• 2 12 ounce cans lemon-lime soda

Instructions

1. In a small microwave-safe bowl, combine water and sugar. Heat in microwave for about 1 minutes. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Pour the sugar mixture into a pitcher. Add coconut extract, food coloring, and soda. Stir to combine. Enjoy over ice.

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• Rainbow Paper Straws
• Swedish Fish
• Mccormick Coconut Extract

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

4

Serving Size:

1 Amount Per Serving: Calories: 114Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 20mgCarbohydrates: 29gFiber: 0gSugar: 29gProtein: 0g

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