9 Refreshing & Boozy Slushie Cocktails to Beat the Heat

Slushie cocktails? This isn't some new player to the cocktail game, these are your friendly neighborhood frozen drinks with an upgraded and more apt name. Besides, slushie implies it won't leave you with a brain freeze.

These are the top slushie cocktails to make at home. And, honestly, slushie is just a way cooler name for a frozen cocktail. Trust me, I'm a cocktail professional.

You know how you were circling that pile of giant watermelons at the grocery store? Now you have double the reason to grab a melon. This makes approximately two servings.

Ingredients

• 2½ cups frozen watermelon chunks
• ½ cup vodka or white rum
• 2 ounces freshly squeezed lime juice
• 2 ounces simple syrup
• 1 cup ice
• Mint sprig and lime wheel for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, watermelon chunks, vodka, lime juice, and simple syrup.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour into rocks glasses.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig and lime wheel.

The perennial drink of the summer, and rightfully so, the Aperol spritz is more than deserving of this slushie upgrade.

Ingredients

• 3½ ounces Aperol
• 3 ounces prosecco
• 1½ ounces club soda
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• ¾ cup ice
• Orange wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, Aperol, prosecco, club soda, orange juice, and ice.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour into rocks glass.
4. Garnish with an orange wedge.

Frozen strawberries, some lemonade, and a bit of vodka is all it takes to go from no drink to slushie cocktail in just a few swirls of the blender.

Ingredients

• 2½ ounces citron vodka
• ¾ cup frozen strawberries
• 1 cup lemonade
• ½ cup ice
• Strawberry and mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, frozen strawberries, citron vodka, and lemonade.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour into a rocks glass.
4. Garnish with a strawberry and mint sprig.

Just when you thought a cocktail couldn't get any hotter, well, you can cool off with this slushie. This makes approximately two servings.

Ingredients

• 6 ounces raspberry vodka
• 4 ounces orange juice
• 4 ounces cranberry juice
• 1 cup frozen peach slices
• ¾ cup ice

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, frozen peaches, raspberry vodka, orange juice, and cranberry juice.
2. Blend until well combined.
3. Serve in cocktail glasses.

If Jack Sparrow could've enjoyed this, then he would be the reason why rum is always gone.

Ingredients

• 3 ounces white rum
• 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
• 3 ounces cream of coconut
• 3 ounces freshly squeezed orange juice
• 3 ounces pineapple juice
• ½ cup ice
• Pineapple wedge for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, frozen pineapple, rum, cream of coconut, orange juice, and pineapple juice.
2. Blend until desired consistency.
3. Pour into a highball glass.
4. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

This slushie cocktail flirts with the flavors of a creamsicle, but you can use just about any fruit juice to make this juicy and chilling drink.

Ingredients

• 3 ounces vanilla vodka
• 4 ounces orange juice, frozen
• 4 ounces orange juice, unfrozen
• 1½ cups ice

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, orange juice, vanilla vodka, frozen orange juice, and regular orange juice.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour into a cocktail glass.

You'll need to give your old-fashioned a little something extra to give it that slushie feel and not just a cold old-fashioned made in a blender. But I have a feeling you won't mind.

Ingredients

• 2½ ounces bourbon
• 4 ounces chilled black tea
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• ¾ ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• 3-4 drops orange bitters
• 1½ cups ice
• Orange slice and cocktail cherry for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, bourbon, chilled black tea, simple syrup, orange juice, and bitters.
2. Blend until mixed.
3. Pour into a rocks glass.
4. Garnish with an orange slice and cocktail cherry.

Hold on, hold on, hold on Negroni lovers. This is just as beautifully bitter and tart when frozen into slushie form as it is when it's on the rocks.

Ingredients

• 2½ ounces gin
• 2½ ounces Campari
• 2½ ounces sweet vermouth
• 2 ounces ruby red grapefruit juice
• 1½ cups ice
• Orange slice for garnish

Instructions

1. In a blender, add ice, gin, Campari, sweet vermouth, and ruby red grapefruit juice.
2. Blend until just mixed.
3. Pour into a rocks glass.
4. Garnish with an orange slice.

Don't put away the blender just yet, there's still one more drink to make: a margarita slushie. Of course, that's not the only classic you can slushify. You can whip up a classic slushie daiquiri, give it a little somethin' somethin' extra with a flavorful slushie daiquiri, or try a tropical coconut piña colada slushie.

Whether you call it a slushie, slushy, frozen, or "wicked cold like Boston in the winter," these slushies are going to course through you and cool you off. After pleasing your tastebuds, of course. Scared of the clean up? Don't worry, friend. We'll show you how to clean that blender in less than a minute. Sounds like it's happy hour. Slushie happy hour.