Easy DIY Christmas Ice Cubes

Christmas Ice Cubes Add Holiday Cheer!

This Christmas Ice Cube recipe comes together in 5 minutes, allowing you to prepare days or even weeks in advance! These cubes are ridiculously easy to put together but still leaves guests amazed at your extra party details!

Customize with your favorite fruit to combine with this recipe to ensure you get the perfect ice for the drinks you’re planning! Go ahead and pick a few different combinations to make up a bigger ice selection for guests to choose from.

Ingredients For Christmas Ice Cubes

For basic ice cubes with garnishes, pair together your favorite fruit, mint leaves, and distilled water.

If you want something a little more robust, use one of the liquid ingredients from the recipe you’re making to make the ice cubes. As they melt, the drink will only get more flavorful instead of diluting!

How To Make Cocktail Ice Cubes

1. Cut your fruit of choice into small pieces along with the mint leaves. Place the fruit and leaves into the sections of two ice cube trays.
2. Fill them with distilled water or juice of your choice and freeze overnight or until solid. Keep in mind big cubes take longer to freeze.
3. Once frozen, remove them and add them to your favorite party drinks!

How To Serve Decorative Ice Cubes

Don’t all good bartenders serve decorative ice at home to bring their parties to the next level? Try serving this ice at Christmas, at your cocktail bar, or for tiki drinks at pool parties.

When serving at parties place the decorative ice on top of crushed ice to preserve the life of the cocktail ice. As your guests craft their own cocktails they can choose which ice they prefer in their drinks!

Become an at-home bartender and pair this cocktail ice with my Christmas Punch or Christmas Sangria.

This decorative ice doesn’t stop at Christmas, use this ice to fancy up your craft cocktails, or other fun drinks! Try it with my Thanksgiving Punch or Cranberry Orange Mimosa Punch as well!

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• Christmas Cookies In A Jar – Mason jar cookies perfect for gifting!
• Alcoholic Or Not Christmas Punch – The most popular recipe on the blog with over 600 5-stars!
• Christmas Chex Mix – A deliciously sweet snack loaded with candy and marshmallows!
• Dried Orange Slices – For cocktail garnishes, garlands, and gift tags!
• Christmas Reindeer Food Poem & Recipe – A fun Christmas craft for kids to do before Santa comes!

This post was originally published in December 2020 and was updated in December 2024 with new photos.