May the 4th celebrations wouldn't be the same without some blue milk! Forget blue #2, use a secret ingredient, a natural tea to bring that bantha blue color to the creamy drink. Make this quick and easy blue milk for your next Star Wars party!
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This should be on your list to make for May the 4th celebrations each year. It's super easy and totally on point for any Star Wars party.
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🧄 Ingredient notes
- Butterfly pea flower tea - The secret ingredient to make this beautiful blue color without anything artificial is butterfly pea flowers! It has a very mild, almost non-existent earthy flavor. They are sold as a loose leaf tea or as a powder. This recipe uses the loose leaf dried flowers sold as a tea, so your milk isn't gritty with the powder. Look at specialty tea shops for this tea or you can also buy butterfly pea flower tea on Amazon (affiliate link).
- Milk - You can use any milk you like for this recipe. I recommend soy milk, oat milk or almond milk. Vanilla-flavored and sweetened varieties work well in this recipe. Or, you can also use unsweetened, plain milk.
📋 Substitutions and variations
Here are some suitable substitutions for the ingredients in this recipe:
- Sugar - instead of raw sugar, you can use agave nectar, maple syrup, coconut sugar, cane sugar or any other sweetener you'd like to use. Or, you can skip the sugar completely for an unsweet blue milk drink.
- WFPBNO - make this whole food plant based no oil by using a plant-based milk with no added sugar or oil, such as Trader Joe's shelf-stable organic soy milk.
Switch things up with these variation ideas!
- Vanilla Blue Milk - add vanilla extract or use a vanilla-flavored plant-based milk
- Blue Bantha Ice Cream - add steeped butterfly pea flower tea to your next ice cream mixture for a blue bantha ice cream!
🔪 Instructions
Here are the step-by-step photos and instructions for how to make homemade blue milk for your Star Wars party or movie night!
To a heat-proof cup, add butterfly pea flower tea.
Pour boiling water over the tea.
Allow to steep for 5 minutes. After the tea has steeped, it should be a dark blue color.
Strain the tea from the leaves/flowers using a fine mesh tea strainer. Stir in sugar or other sweetener, if using it, until it dissolves.
In a drinking glass, add ice cubes.
Pour the blue tea over the ice cubes.
Then, add plant-based milk until it turns a medium-light blue color.
Stir and enjoy! To make blue swirls, add a little extra blue tea on top of the mixed milk.
🥡 Make ahead and storage tips
You can make the blue milk ahead of time and refrigerate it for up to 3 days.
👨👩👦👦 Serving suggestions
Serve this blue milk alongside other clever Star Wars-themed dishes, snacks and desserts. Some ideas:
- Wookie cookies
- Leia's cinnamon buns
- Pocky sabers
- Pretzel sabers
- Thermal detonators (any round candy)
- Sliced cured bantha
- Meiloorun fruit
- Han burgers
- Obi-wan cannolis
- Yoda soda
- Jabba juice
- Millenium Falcorn
- Tie fighters
- Carbonite jello
- Dark side chocolate cake
- Boba fettuccini alfredo
- Pada wontons
- Tip-yip dumplings
- Vader taters
- Tip-yip chow mein
- Tip-yip nuggets in orange sauce (tofu or soy curls in orange sauce)
- Storm trooper scoopers (corn chips)
- BBQ bantha (BBQ jackfruit or tofu)
- Shredded bantha (shredded jackfruit)
- Endor salad
- Fried porg
- Drink outpost
🗺 Cultural influences
This recipe is inspired by my husband and sons' deep knowledge and love of Star Wars. Where do you think I got that Darth Vader for the pic? Shhhh.... Don't tell them!
May the 4th be with you.
See About for more information on my cultural influences and how I attribute recipes.
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📖 Recipe
Blue Bantha Milk (no artificial colors)
Equipment
- Tea strainer
- Measuring cup
Ingredients
- 1 heaping tablespoon dried butterfly pea flowers whole flowers, sold as a tea
- 6 ounces boiling water (¾ cup or 175 ml)
- 1 teaspoon sugar or other sweetener, optional
- 8 ounces milk (1 cup or 235 ml) choose your favorite milk. I recommend dairy-free milk, like soy milk, oat milk, almond milk or coconut milk. Vanilla milks work well, too!
- ice cubes to fill glasses
Instructions
- To a heat-proof cup, add butterfly pea flower tea. Pour boiling water over the tea. Allow to steep for 5 minutes.1 heaping tablespoon dried butterfly pea flowers, 6 ounces boiling water
- After the tea has steeped, it should be a dark blue color. Strain the tea from the leaves/flowers using a fine mesh tea strainer. Stir in sugar or other sweetener, if using it, until it dissolves.1 teaspoon sugar
- In a drinking glass, add ice cubes. Pour the blue tea over the ice cubes. Then, add plant-based milk until it turns a medium-light blue color. Stir and enjoy!8 ounces milk, ice cubes
Angela Allen says
My grandson is our family's Star Wars expert and this will be so much fun to make for him! I love butterfly pea flower tea and always have it around so it will be easy. Thanks for a great idea!
Abi Cowell says
Yay! So happy to hear that! Please let me know what he thinks! 😀