18 Bold And Beautiful Blue Cocktails You Wish You Could Swim In

Your bar cart called and it's asking for you to pick up some Blue Curaçao ASAP. What exactly is Blue Curaçao? It's the source of the vibrant, blue hue in all our favorite tropical cocktails, yes, but it's a tangy orange liqueur originally created on the island of Curaçao in the Caribbean.

As the story goes, the sun-dried peel of a Valencia orange gone bitter in the Caribbean climate was used in distilling this citrusy drink, and fun fact—it wasn't originally blue. In the early 1900's, the Bols distilling company added blue food coloring to the drink to add some *alchemical mystery*, and the bright blue cocktail ingredient we know and love today was born. Blue curaçao was originally marketed as "Crème de Ciel", or cream of the sky: Whether it comes from the sky or your fully stocked bar, we're sure you're going to want to cozy up with all of these bold, blue cocktails.

Consider blue curaçao your new favorite party trick for adding a blue boost to all your favorite classic cocktails, like mimosas and frozen slushies. We also love how the tangy orange flavor adds another dimension to make up our mermaid mules, mermaid mimosas, and mermaid coladas. Ariel would 100% approve.

Blue Curaçao also mixes up super well with vodka, tequila, and rum, so feel free to use it to spike your favorite lemonade (like our mermaid lemonade) or vodka punch. We don't know about you, but we have a budding crush on our blue crush margaritas.