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Bomb Pop Cocktail

Bomb Pop Cocktail is a tri-color layered drink with crisp red grenadine, white rum, and electric blue liqueur stacked without bleeding. Built in a tall glass over ice, it finishes with a quick soda splash and a cherry-striped straw garnish for a bright summer look.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings: 2 servings
Course: Drink
Cuisine: American
Calories: 260
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Grenadine
  • 1 oz grenadine syrup For the cherry-red bottom layer.
White layer
  • 1 oz coconut rum or vanilla vodka Choose rum or vanilla vodka to create the white middle layer.
Blue layer
  • 1 oz blue raspberry vodka or blue curaçao Float this over the white layer for the top blue stripe.
Finish and garnish
  • 0.5 oz lemon-lime soda Adds lift at the end; keep layering intact and do not stir.
  • 1 ice cubes Fill the glass to the top for clean separation.
  • 1 maraschino cherry and striped straw for garnish Use for the final patriotic garnish just before serving.

Equipment

  • 1 cocktail bar spoon

Method
 

Build the layered cocktail
  1. Fill a tall cocktail glass with ice cubes to the top.
  2. Pour the grenadine syrup slowly over the ice so it settles at the bottom as the red layer.
  3. Hold a bar spoon just above the ice and slowly pour coconut rum or vanilla vodka over it to form the white middle layer.
  4. Pour blue raspberry vodka or blue curaçao over the spoon again to float and create the top layer.
  5. Add a small splash of lemon-lime soda, garnish with a maraschino cherry and striped straw, and do not stir before serving.
Make second glass (optional)
  1. Repeat the same layering steps in the second tall cocktail glass so the tri-color layers stay crisp and separate.

Notes

For the cleanest tri-color stack, pour slowly and keep each liquid against the spoon rather than directly onto the previous layer. Serve immediately for the sharpest separation and freshest condensation; it’s best not to store. Freezing isn’t recommended because the soda component will go flat. Dietary swap: for a non-alcoholic version, use coconut cream or vanilla syrup in place of the white spirit and use blue raspberry syrup plus grenadine for the blue/red layers (lemon-lime soda remains).