Vivacity Test Kitchen: Fire & Ice
We are at it again! We tried the viral color-changing frozen mocktail and our minds were blown! It was delicious and beautiful. We paired it with our easy-peasy buffalo chicken bites, and it was the perfect little snack. We will be making it again!
Fire Buffalo Chicken Bites
Ingredients:
Just Bare breaded chicken breast chunks or make it vegan by using Daring.’s breaded chicken tenders
Franks buffalo sauce
Celery
Blue cheese dressing or make a vegan version (check out this recipe)
Directions:
Cook chicken per instructions on package
Wash, dry, and cut celery into 1 inch pieces
Place chicken in mixing bowl and add enough buffalo sauce to lightly coat each piece
Assemble buffalo chicken bites by adding one piece of chicken to each celery piece (wooden toothpics work great to secure them) and lightly drizzle blue cheese dressing over each bite
Enjoy!
Icy Mystic Mocktail
View our Insta tutorial here!
Ingredients:
Purple Cabbage
Sparkle water of your choice
Fresh lemon
Directions:
Slice your purple cabbage, cover with water in a quart size pot. Bring to a boil and let simmer for about 5-7 minutes, you’ll see the water turn a dark purple.
Strain out the purple water and set aside to let cool completely.
Add ice to your glass, fill halfway with your cabbage water and top the rest with your sparkle water of choice.
Finish with a fresh squeeze or two of lemon, this will cause the color changing reaction and turn your purple drink to pink. (Depending on the sparkling water you use the color may change to a pink immediately.)
Enjoy!
Notes from the Test Kitchen :
Cabbage juice is made up of a pigment called anthocyanin. This pigment is a pH indicator—when it's mixed with a substance, it changes color based on that substance's pH. When something is acidic, the cabbage juice turns bright pink.
Be warned that the purple cabbage water may stink up your kitchen a little bit (anything for a fun experiment!).
The water also has a cabbage-y smell, but once mixed with sparkle water and topped with lemon you can’t taste or smell it at all.
