Dirty Dr Pepper
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If you haven’t tried a dirty soda before, you’re in for a treat! All it takes is three ingredients (syrup, soda, and creamer) to make my quick and easy Dirty Dr Pepper recipe.
Public declaration time: I’ve become an addict. I know I can live without this Dirty Dr Pepper recipe, but I don’t want to!
It all started when I made friends with these two sweet ladies who share my love of fun non-alcoholic drinks. I was talking about my favorite concoction (lemonade and cherry juice) when they mentioned Dirty Diet Coke. My interest was immediately piqued. Dirty soda? I knew they didn’t drink either so it had to be something good. As soon as I got home I found their Dirty Diet Coke recipe and set out to make my own version.
If you know me, you know that I’m team Diet Dr Pepper. It takes less than five minutes to make this dirty soda recipe with just three ingredients: soda of your choice, coconut syrup, and half and half. I know, I know. I was skeptical about combining half and half and soda too. But this is what gives the drink its “dirty” look. And trust me. Once you have that first sip, you’ll be a changed person. It’s like an ice cream float or an old-fashioned egg cream. Rich, creamy, fizzy, sweet, and refreshing goodness!
This is the next best thing to having fairies clean your house while you sleep! It’s like a trip to the beach for under a dollar! It’s like a personal, warm hug directly from Heaven to Diet Dr Pepper lovers everywhere! Let’s make ourselves one.
Check out some of my other delicious drink recipes like Tropical Pink Mocktail (Fun Fruity Summer Drink), Snowman Soup With Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix, Sweet Tea Recipe, and Old-Fashioned Egg Cream Recipe.
What You’ll Need to Make Dirty Dr Pepper
Ingredients:
- Coconut syrup
- Diet Dr Pepper
- Half and half
How to Make Dirty Dr Pepper
Fill your glass with ice and add the coconut syrup.
Add about half of your Diet Dr Pepper.
Stir just slightly. Then, fill the glass up almost to the top with Diet Dr Pepper, saving about an inch of head space.
Add a splash of half and half.
Stir lightly to “dirty” it all up.
Enjoy! And I do mean enjoy. This is truly delicious!
Storage
Because this is made with soda and cream, it’s best served immediately, as the soda will become flat. Lucky it’s so easy to make!
Recipe Variations
- Now, I know I’m using Diet Dr Pepper. But you can seriously make this dirty soda recipe with any carbonated drink. That might be Pepsi, regular Dr Pepper, flavored Dr Pepper, Mountain Dew, or good old Coca-Cola.
- For extra tropical flavor, add a lime wedge as a garnish, and then add as much freshly squeezed lime juice as you like.
- The traditional option is coconut syrup. But other syrups like vanilla syrup, English toffee syrup, and butterscotch syrup also complement the soda.
- Besides half and half, you can use milk for a lighter option or go creamier with heavy cream.
- Another option is using coconut creamer or coconut milk to boost the coconut flavor.
Recipe FAQs
What is dirty soda?
Dirty soda is a combination of soda, flavored syrup, and cream served over ice. The original dirty soda recipe includes Diet Coke over ice, coconut syrup, lime juice, and half and half.
Where is dirty soda from?
Dirty soda actually originates from Utah and became famous on TikTok in 2022.
What is a Dirty Dr Pepper from Sonic?
A Dirty Dr Pepper from Sonic is a drink made from Dr Pepper, coconut syrup, and a splash of lime juice.
What does a dirty soda taste like?
AllRecipes says dirty soda tastes like “a melted root beer float with a hint of tropical flavor.” This is the perfect way to describe it!
How do you make Dirty Dr Pepper Floats?
To make floats, you’d substitute the half-and-half for a scoop of vanilla or coconut ice cream instead.
You may also enjoy these homemade drink recipes:
Old-Fashioned Egg Cream Recipe
Sugar-Free Peach Lemonade (2 Ingredients Only)
Ingredients
- 1 can Diet Dr Pepper
- 3-4 tablespoons coconut syrup
- 3-4 tablespoons half and half
Instructions
- Fill a tall glass with ice.
- Add coconut syrup and half of the Diet Dr Pepper and stir.3-4 tablespoons coconut syrup, 1 can Diet Dr Pepper
- Fill to within an inch of the top with Diet Dr Pepper.1 can Diet Dr Pepper
- Add the half and half and mix until your drink looks "dirty".3-4 tablespoons half and half
Nutrition
“Those who wish to sing, always find a song.”
~old Proverb
Torani keeps coming up with new flavors such as bacon (figure out a recipe using that, Christy) and salted caramel. I got the salted caramel from Amazon. It is wonderful in homemade hot cocoa made with half and half! Yum!
Hey Christy! Love your recipes and stories! You seem to be such a sweet, genuine person, and I’ve always appreciated your laid back, ‘live and let live’ attitude. I must, however, make mention of your “rotted grape juices” comment. While you choose not to partake of alcoholic beverages, please show some tolerance for those of us who do enjoy an occasional glass of wine. Wine, as opposed to hard alcohol, enhances many different types of food. You are entitled to abstain, just as I am entitled not to. Enjoy your well-deserved vacation!
Thank you for being so sweet about it Nancy. I can see I offended you and that was certainly not my intent, I sincerely apologize to you for that.
I say that in fun, as most everyone I know drinks wine (and many of them even have fancy little refrigerators for it built into their homes!). My husband and I tried to find a wine we could toast each other with before we got married and tried and tried but to us, it still tasted like rotted grape juice 🙂 When I say this, I am referring, of course, to the fermenting process.
We were told we needed more sophisticated taste buds and we can gladly accept that. In the end, we ended up toasting with white grape juice and our unsophisticated taste buds were singing! We have declared our house wine to be sweet tea 🙂
Not drinking is a personal conviction we have for a multitude of reasons but I’ve seldom known two random people who had the same personal conviction and our convictions are for us to follow – we don’t expect others to.
For some reason though, folks who don’t drink usually don’t realize that there are all sorts of FUN drinks we can mix up without alcohol, too!
I appreciate your sophisticated taste buds and I hope I have explained my humor and where I am coming from 🙂
Thanks, Christy!! You explained your intent PERFECTLY! Not hearing a person’s voice/inflection or seeing facial expressions can sometimes lead to misunderstanding in our techno-communications world. I get it. Again, have a blast on your vaca. Look forward to seeing some great family-fun pics!
Enjoy your unplugging!!
Our local Drug Emporium carries a HUGE selection of syrups. You might check you health food stores also all of ours have a selection.
I’m on my way over! I love me some Diet Coke, but I think the Dirty Diet DP might be a winner this way 😉
When I was a child, we used to put milk in Barq’s Root Beer! This takes me back. Did you ever have a Barq’s in the glass bottles, Christy?
One of our big treats after school on Friday was to get to drink coke or root beer out of a glass bottle. Now, keep in mind that we couldn’t afford three cokes though! So Mama would save and wash out glass bottles and buy one coke, then divide it up among the bottles she had cleaned. That way, we all got to drink the coke out of the bottle 🙂
LOVE THIS!!!
World Market carries the Torani syrups! Cheers!