3 Boozy Popsicle Recipes That Will Win All Summer Parties

Jul 17, 2019

3 Sugar-Free Boozy Popsicles That Will Win All Summer Parties

After a seemingly endless winter, summer is finally in full swing, and we are ALL about cocktails in popsicle form for beating the heat! We teamed up with hint® water to share three sugar-free boozy popsicle recipes that you should probably have in your freezer at all times.

Each popsicle recipe is made using hint® water, fresh fruit, and, of course, a little liquor, and takes minutes to make. In addition to being extremely delicious, they’re pretty dang cute and colorful as well.

The trick with cocktail pops is that whole liquor not really freezing thing, so you need to add plenty of other liquids. hint® water makes for the perfect poptail foundation. It's a great tasting, healthy alternative to sugary and diet sweetened drinks, whether you're drinking it straight up or using it as an ingredient. You could definitely make non-alcoholic versions of these popsicles for the non-drinkers and kiddos in your summer crew. And to make your popsicle-making dreams really come true, we’re offering a special discount — head here to pick up three cases of hint® water for $39.99!

Of course, it's always good to make sure you've got some healthy snacks and nourishment to go alongside your boozy pops. Now, let the poptail games begin!

Summer Mule Pineapple Popsicles

Your favorite copper-cupped sipper gets a flavor-packed tropical update.

Vacation vibes are here, and this popsicle will instantly transport you to a dreamy state of bliss. Made using ginger hint® sparkling water, we added a pop of pineapple to the classic mule recipe, giving it an exotic and fresh taste with just the right amount of sweetness.

No judgement if you find yourself eating a few teaspoons of pineapple puree in the making of this poptail ;)

Ingredients (makes 10 popsicles):

16 ounces ginger hint® sparkling water
5 ounces vodka
6 ounces pineapple puree
1 tsp freshly grated ginger
10 lime slices

Directions:

Mix together the ginger hint® sparkling water, vodka, pineapple puree, and ginger with a whisk. You can also sub in a different flavor of hint® sparkling water to mix things up!
Place one lime slice in each popsicle mold.
Use a funnel to fill each popsicle mold to the top with liquid and place the lid and popsicle sticks into each mold.
Freeze for at least six hours or until frozen through.

We love how you can see the lime slices peeking through in each popsicle.

If your popsicles melt before everyone has a chance to try them, add a ladle and call it punch!

Raspberry Mango Mimosa Freeze Pops

These sweet sleeves are here to refresh you.

For this popsicle remix, we went for a sweet and fruity take on a classic morning brunch cocktail. We combined raspberry hint® water with fresh mango puree, mango slices, chopped raspberries, and a low-sugar sparkling wine. The results are mouth-watering, and the sleeves make it easy to freeze and re-freeze a few times over. If you really want to slay the summer potluck game, throw these in a cooler and prepare to be crowned cocktail queen.

Take your freeze pop love to the next level by throwing a party where people assemble their own boozy pops, with a whole variety of purees and flavors to choose from.

Ingredients (makes 10 pops):

14 ounces raspberry hint® water
12 ounces sparkling wine
10 ounces mango puree
½ cup chopped raspberries
20 mango slices

Directions:

Mix together the raspberry hint® water, sparkling wine, and mango puree with a whisk.
Place a small spoonful of the raspberries and two mango slices into each popsicle sleeve. We recommend placing the sleeve in a jar or glass to help hold it up while you fill.
Using a funnel, fill the sleeve with the liquid mixture to within half an inch of the top and seal the sleeve.
Freeze for 6 hours or until pops have a slushy-like consistency.

The best thing about these pops is they're pretty darn good even if they're halfway melted!

That blend of mango and raspberry definitely has some "Living Coral" color of the year vibes. So on trend right now.

Blackberry Lemon Drop Popsicles

All the sweetness of summer blackberries with a punch of lemon drop sass.

For our last spiked sweet, we’ve concocted a perfectly summery twist on a classic shot, the lemon drop. To class it up, we’ve combined blackberry hint® water, pureed blackberries, lemon slices, and, obvs, vodka ;)

Lemon drop it like it's hot, amirite? We went old school with these pops and used good old paper cups, tin foil, and popsicle sticks to create our molds.

Ingredients (makes 10 popsicles):

28 ounces blackberry hint® water
8 ounces vodka
8 ounces blackberry puree
¾ cup quartered blackberries
10 lemon slices, quartered

Directions:

Mix together the blackberry hint® water, vodka and blackberry puree with a whisk.
Divide the quartered blackberries and quartered lemon slices into ten 8 ounce paper cups.
Divide the liquid mixture between the ten paper cups. Cover each cup with a square of foil and insert a stick through the foil, into the mixture.
Freeze for 6 hours or until frozen solid.

Alright y'all, time to sign off and plan our next summer party! Keep these popsicles at the ready and you will pat yourself on the back on the reg, and so will your roomie/spouse/bestie. Don’t forget, we’re offering a special discount on getting this hint® water party started — head here to pick up three cases of hint® water for $39.99!

Bonus: Did you know that the folks at hint® also make the most amazing smelling sunscreen, scented with real fruit essences and free of oxybenzone or parabens? So you can protect your skin while sipping your new fave treats in the sunshine. Stock up at drinkhint.com.

Collaboration Hacks Every Small Business Owner Should Know

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In our Take 5 series, sponsored by Verizon, we ask women in business about unexpected challenges, their inspirations, recent wins, and how the free Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program has helped propel their business forward. Here, we meet Therise Edwards, founder/CEO of Teshley Solutions, an education consultancy firm that helps students and families navigate the complexities of the education system K through 12.

What is an unexpected business challenge that you faced and how did you overcome it?

I wouldn't call myself a FAFSA (Free Application for Student Aid) expert, but I ended up having to know a lot more about it than I ever anticipated. FAFSA is what administers Pell Grants, which is what a lot of colleges base their financial aid on. I knew about the application changes, and some were excellent, but they made a series of critical errors and a lot of parents were scrambling. It was not my intent to have this as my area of focus; it just became a necessity.

What's a recent small win for your business?

Recent small wins are my collaborations. I formed partnerships with one organization that focuses on students with special needs. I hosted a webinar with the executive director of that organization. I formed a partnership with members from an insurance company on planning and paying for college. That was my first corporate sponsorship. And I've got a series of events coming out because others actually reached out to me. One of them I met through another networking platform, but I got to that platform from one of the sessions that I did with Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program.

How did you start to collaborate with external partners?

Just changing my strategies and my approach, and just being more secure and more emphatic in making connections. It ends up being this continual cycle.

Is there a woman in business that you admire or that you look up to?

I have two. Leontyne Anglin, who runs a nonprofit called Beyond Expectations. She works with a small pool of students, but she just gives them enormous exposure and opportunity. She's brilliant with collaborating with individuals and businesses and really bringing the students what they need. And then the other on a bigger scale is Cate Luzio, founder and CEO of Luminary, who taught her Business Plan Bootcamp through the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program. She is just a dynamo. She is just so supportive of women entrepreneurs. She's awesome.

How did the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program help propel your business forward?

All of the collaborations and partnerships with the exception of one all came from joining the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program. I’ve taken all of the free classes and the one on projections and pricing, something every entrepreneur struggles with, was very helpful. There have been so many of them. Sometimes you're completely ignorant in a category so you take the class and it's like, okay, that's good to have. But then sometimes you sign up for it and it's like, oh, yeah, I did know 90 percent of that, but this other 10 percent is going to be very, very helpful.

Learn more about the free Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program and Teshley Solutions.

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Why Timothée Chalamet Abandoned “Good Friend” Austin Butler’s ‘Elvis’ Method For Bob Dylan Role

Austin Butler as Elvis, Selena Gomez as Linda Rondstat, and now Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan — there will never be enough biopics for me! (The real question is when are we going to get a Taylor Swift movie?). When pictures from the set of the new Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown, hit Twitter, I had to do a double take because Timothée Chalamet looks so much like the musician I couldn't believe my eyes! You can watch the A Complete Unknown trailer here.

Timothée is going to be joined by Met Gala queen Elle Fanning, as well as Top Gun superstar Monica Barbaro. Here's everything you need to know about the movie — and our favorite Bob Dylan songs to listen to while you wait for its release.

Keep reading to see the latest updates from Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.

Timothée Chalamet stars in A Complete Unknown, coming to theaters December 25, 2024.
He's joined by Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro.
The movie follows Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s as he rises to fame and later shifts from folk to rock'n'roll.

Did Timothée Chalamet take inspiration from Austin Butler’s Elvis?

Timothée Chalamet recently revealed that while he originally wanted to approach A Complete Unknown by taking direct inspiration from Bob Dylan, he quickly changed his tone...so to speak. "Somebody once said to me, you can't make a movie about a painter because it's not interesting to watch paint dry," he says in People's exclusive video. "Bob has that element because he's not one of these forward-facing musicians."

While Timmy saw Natalie Portman a sequence in Jackie "step-for-step exactly what Jackie did," and paid attention to "all this stuff that I saw my good friend Austin Butler crush it with on Elvis," he quickly realized "I gotta do none of this because this is not my style."

"Bob did not have a vocal coach," he continues. "He had two bottles of red wine and four packs of cigarettes. There's no way to impersonate that." One of my favorite things about biopics is seeing how a well-known actor portrays a recognizable figure. And you can see Timothée Chalamet's interpretation of Bob Dylan in theaters December 25!

Monica Barbaro Sings Her Heart Out

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We got a look at Monica Barbaro as singer-songwriter Joan Baez, who was one of the first major artists in the 1960s to record Bob Dylan's music!

I was super impressed to learn Timothée showed up and sang live for the film. "It was important for me to play and sing on set because it was in the spirit of the movie to do it live," he says in a video from People. "Many of the artists through American pop culture that had the balls to turn their back on what was expected of them, that moment started with Bob. His words are relevant; 'Times They are A Changing' ' is relevant, 'Blowin' in the Wind' is relevant."

Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet In "A Complete Unknown"

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Elle Fanning totally embodies the late '60s vibe in this fall outfit. The bold maroon blazer, the long straight hair, and the striped turtleneck — I love it all! Elle is starring this Bob Dylan movie as Sylvie Russo, a university student and artist Bob falls for in the '60s.

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Thanks to some onset leaks, we also got a glimpse of the movie's version of The Freewheelin'! Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet look incredible as Sylvia Russo and Bob Dylan. I'm a sucker for any kind of recreation, so seeing this new version of the classic record cover is incredible!!

The First Pictures From Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan Movie

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Timothée Chalamet has totally transformed into Bob Dylan on the set of A Complete Unknown. And when I saw the pictures of Timothée carrying the guitar my jaw dropped!! He completely engrossed himself in Wonka and Dune 2 and I'm so excited to see him do the same for this Bob Dylan movie.

What is the movie about Bob Dylan called?

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A Complete Unknown Plot

Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan movie is called A Complete Unknown. The movie filmed around New York City in the spring of 2024, and James Mangold is serving as director (you might recognize his name from Logan, Girl, Interrupted, and Walk the Line). The movie will cover the period during the 1960s when Bob Dylan shifted from folk to rock'n'roll, changing the face of pop culture (and culture in general, TBH), forever.

"When that movie finally comes out, people are going to be shocked because you're going to think you're hearing Bob Dylan sing," vocal coach Eric Vetro tells PEOPLE. "[Timothée Chalamet] just has this uncanny ability to not impersonate, but really breathe life into it. He's embodying Bob Dylan and what he was like at that age."

Who else is in A Complete Unknown with Timothée Chalamet?

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A Complete Unknown Cast

The A Complete Unknown cast is incredible! Alongside Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, we'll see Top Gun: Maverick's Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax.

When is the Bob Dylan movie coming out?

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A Complete Unknown Release Date

A Complete Unknown will hit theaters on December 25, 2024. And since Timothée Chalamet has been seen in turtlenecks, hats, and jackets on set, this sounds like the perfect cozy movie to me!

I always need some brand new music to listen to once the weather gets chilly, and I will for sure be listening to anything Timothée records.

What song did Bob Dylan write for a movie?

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Bob Dylan wrote "Things Have Changed" for the 2000 movie Wonder Boys, which starred Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Katie Holmes. This Bob Dylan song ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Original Songand the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song!

"Knockin' On Heaven's Door," which is arguably the singer's most popular track, was released two months after the 1973 premiere of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as a part of the film's soundtrack.

What are some other Bob Dylan songs to listen to?

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I totally agree that one of the best Bob Dylan songs is "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," but "Blowin' In The Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" are also great songs to listen to if you're a new Bob Dylan fan. So far, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is my personal favorite song.

His style is the perfect blend of rock and folk that reminds me of summer picnics and walks in the woods. His sound also reportedly inspired Taylor Swift's Folklore!

What are you most excited to see in Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown? Check out our Facebook for more movie news!

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How To Build A Local Community When You’re A Digital Creator

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In our Take 5 series, sponsored by Verizon, we ask women in business about unexpected challenges, their inspirations, recent wins, and how the free Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program has helped propel their business forward. Here, we meet Rita Suzanne, a marketing strategist for health and wellness businesses who learned to network, connect with other entrepreneurs, and build her business online and IRL.

What's an unexpected business challenge that you've had to face and how did you overcome it?

The hardest thing for me was my sister passed away and I ended up taking custody of my nieces. I ended up being a single mom of four kids. This is the thing that transitioned my whole entire life. I stopped doing web design and started my podcast Mom Owned and Operated. I wanted to reconnect with other moms and figure out how they were able to run their businesses and raise a family and take care of themselves because I wasn't able to do all three at the same time. Through that journey, I realized that I really needed to connect with other people and how important it was for my business. It helped me to create that community that I was yearning for that I didn't realize that I needed.

What's a recent small win for your business?

For me, the win was just pivoting back to something that I actually wanted to do. Also, I’ve started to say no to things that I no longer want to do.

Who is a woman in business that you look up to and why?

I have always admired and looked up to Amy Porterfield [author of Two Weeks Notice]. I listened to her all the time when I was starting out. I think that she's amazing and I love her stuff. She just seems like a very genuine person.

Is there a resource that has made an impact on you as an entrepreneur?

I listen to a lot of audio books. One of my favorites that has been huge for me is You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero. I was told when I first started my business, by a friend who was a business coach, that I have a mindset problem. Ten years ago, I had no idea even what “mindset” was. Sincero’s book helped me to see what she meant by “mindset” and helped me adjust that mindset and fix some of the things that I didn't realize were broken.

How has the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program helped propel your business forward?

There are a lot of things that I have loved about it. There are local networking and training opportunities, and that has been great, and the online training is very valuable. It's a great resource. I find that marketing needs a three-tiered approach, meaning you need to network it locally, socially, and then also have a very comprehensive online approach to your marketing. One of the Verizon Small Business trainings that I took was all about taking advantage of your local resources. I found that to be extremely valuable because often people think they need to just focus on social media. I don't think that people focus enough on their local community.

Learn more about the free Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program and Rita Suzanne.

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Renée Zellwegger & Leo Woodall Prove Age Gaps Are Sexy In 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy' Trailer

If you're a rom-com fan who also can't get enough of Jane Austen's books, you've probably seen the Bridget Jones movies. The story (which is loosely based on Pride & Prejudice) follows the titular Bridget Jones, a 30-something who sets out on a mission to improve herself over the course of a year while she looks for a partner. And, in true romantic movie form, she keeps a diary the whole time. Not only can we rewatch the original trilogy as many times as we want, but we're also getting a fourth movie! Here's everything we know about Bridget Jones 4.