Celebrate Mom-to-Be With 7 Fun Baby Shower Mocktails

Give everyone something to coo about with tasty mocktails that celebrate the eagerly anticipated joy of new life.

Published February 14, 2023
Smiling pregnant woman toasting cocktail glasses with friends

It's celebration time! There's a bundle of joy or two on the way, and the time is here to start planning a baby shower or sprinkle. What you don't want to forget is the beverages. You certainly don't want to bring cocktails to this party - don't leave the mom-to-be out of the fun. The solution? Mocktails! Baby shower mocktails will be a guaranteed hit. We even offer a few mocktail name suggestions. This is your one-stop-shop for all things baby mocktails. Let's get celebrating!

Cotton Candy Baby Shower Mocktail

Champagne glasses with candy cotton

Sparkling white grape juice or sparkling apple juice is all you need to make this fizzy and colorful mocktail.

Ingredients

  • ¼ ounce lemon juice
  • Sparkling white grape juice to top off
  • Cotton candy for garnish, pink or blue

Instructions

  1. Chill a Champagne flute.
  2. In the chilled glass, add lemon juice.
  3. Top off with sparkling white grape juice.
  4. Garnish with a ball of cotton candy, piercing with a skewer, careful to not let it touch the sparkling juice.

Strawberry Faux-Mojito Baby Shower Mocktail

Strawberry alcoholic cocktail with fresh mint

It's tough celebrating a mom-to-be, and it's even tougher work growing a baby full-time. Rely on a refreshing strawberry fauxjito mocktail for the baby shower that you can whip up several servings of ahead of time. This recipe makes approximately 10 servings.

Ingredients

  • 2½ cups strawberry puree
  • 1¾ cups cranberry juice
  • 1¼ cups ounces lime juice
  • 1¼ cups mint simple syrup
  • Ice
  • Club soda to top off
  • Strawberry and mint sprig for garnish

Instructions

  1. In a large pitcher or punch bowl, add ice, strawberry puree, cranberry juice, lime juice, and mint simple syrup.
  2. Stir to mix.
  3. Serve in highball glasses over fresh ice.
  4. Top off each individual serving with club soda.
  5. Garnish each with a strawberry and mint sprig.

Celebratory Citrus Mule Mocktail for Many

Refreshing iced Moscow mule cocktail

You can mix up several of these tasty mocktail mules at once without breaking a sweat or missing a single game. This recipe makes enough for four servings, but you can easily modify the amount to suit any number of servings you need.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup grapefruit juice
  • ½ cup lime juice
  • ¼ cup simple syrup
  • Ice
  • Ginger beer to top off
  • Lemon wedge, and a whole strawberry OR several blueberries for garnish

Instructions

  1. In a pitcher, add grapefruit juice, lime juice, and simple syrup.
  2. Stir to mix.
  3. Add 3½ ounces of mix to a rocks glass or copper mug over fresh ice.
  4. Top off each serving with ginger beer.
  5. Garnish with lemon wedges and a strawberries or blueberries.

Momosa Baby Shower Mocktail

Two glasses with mimosa cocktail

Whether the shower falls during the brunch or dinner hour, these mimosa riffs in honor of mom are the perfect touch.

Ingredients

  • ½ ounce orange juice
  • ½ ounce pineapple juice
  • Vanilla club soda to top off
  • ¼ ounce grenadine
  • Cherry for garnish

Instructions

  1. Chil a Champagne flute.
  2. In the chilled glass, drop in the cherry, then add orange juice and pineapple juice.
  3. Top off with vanilla club soda.
  4. Slowly add grenadine, allowing it to sink.

A Little Shirley Temple

dirty shirley cocktail

This isn't the sugary Shirley Temple of your youth (oh, thank goodness, who has time for extra dentist appointments?), but it still tickles all the taste buds. Skip the grenadine and use blue food coloring or nonalcoholic blue curaçao syrup.

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces white cranberry juice
  • ¾ ounce grenadine OR nonalcoholic blue curaçao syrup
  • ½ ounce lemon juice
  • Ice
  • Ginger ale to top off
  • Cherry for garnish

Instructions

  1. In a highball glass, add ice, white cranberry juice, grenadine, and lemon juice.
  2. Top off with ginger ale.
  3. Stir gently to mix.
  4. Garnish with a cherry.

Preggie Punch

Orange punch cocktail at summer beach bar

Think of this pregnant-friendly baby shower punch as a tropical punch, sans rum, but with plenty of celebration. Quickly make a bigger batch by multiplying how many servings you desire. Easy!

Ingredients

  • 3 ounces pineapple juice
  • 2 ounces orange juice
  • 1 ounce cherry juice
  • ½ ounce lime juice
  • Ice
  • Mint sprig and orange slice for garnish

Instructions

  1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, pineapple juice, orange juice, cherry juice, and lime juice.
  2. Shake to chill.
  3. Strain into a highball glass over fresh ice.
  4. Garnish with a mint sprig and orange slice.

Sparkling Berry Baby Shower Sangria Mocktail

Homemade Berry Rose Sangria

Sparkling white grape juice goes a long way to make a delicious sangria mocktail that won't take over the palate or stain any dresses at a baby shower.

Ingredients

  • 4 ounces sparkling rosé grape juice
  • 2 ounces white cranberry-strawberry juice
  • ¾ ounce lemon juice
  • Ice
  • Lemon slice and strawberry slices for garnish

Instructions

  1. In a wine glass, add ice, sparkling rosé grape juice, white cranberry-strawberry juice, and lemon juice.
  2. Stir gently to mix.
  3. Garnish with a lemon slice and strawberry slices.

Baby Shower Mocktail Names

Party decorations at a citrus themed baby shower

Whether you make a mocktail recipe above, shake up your favorite mocktail recipe, or are looking for inspiration, these will have everyone awing and smiling over the names.

  • Baby Moon Mocktail
  • Bouncing Boys
  • Giggling Girls
  • Mama-to-Be-Margarita Mocktail
  • Tinker Toys Mocktail
  • And Baby Makes Three
  • Family Fizz
  • Baby Bump Highball Mocktail
  • Mama's Mojito Mocktail
  • Is Baby a Shirley Temple?
  • Is Baby a Rob Roy?
  • Oh Baby!
  • Baby Bellini
  • Rattle and Roll Rickey Mocktail
  • Tummy Time Tea
  • My Fair Baby
  • Million Dollar Baby Mocktail
  • Peek-a-Boo Mule Mocktail
  • Stork Swizzle
  • Special Delivery

Cooing Over Baby Shower Mocktails

Round out the perfect baby shower with the best mocktail to celebrate, toast, and cheers the new baby. Whether you spin the mocktail blue to celebrate a bouncing boy, pink to toast to a giggling girl, or leave it a mystery, these will be the star. Second to mom, of course.

Celebrate Mom-to-Be With 7 Fun Baby Shower Mocktails