BFG's Frobscottle Recipe {Kid & Adult recipes} (2024)

We’re sharing a few ways you can make the BFG’s Frobscottle!

Whether it’s for a book or movie club theme, we’re sharing three different recipes for Frobscottle, including an adult version and kid-friendly versions.

Check them out below!

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BFG’s Frobscottle Recipe{Kid & Adult recipes}

Happy Friday y’all!

Not only is this a holiday weekend, but Disney’s new movie, The BFG, is hitting theaters!

I’m not going to share the whole movie or synopsis, but you can read our thoughts and takeaways from The BFG here.

The boys read the bookand were excited (mostly Zayd’n) to see the movie.

Zayd’n came up with the idea of recreating Frobscottle, like in the movie.

So after a little research and perusing through several of Roald Dahl’s recipe books (recipes created from his books), we came up with some fresh ways to make Frobscottle.

According to the book (page 64), Sophia asks the BFG for water. He tells her giants only drink Frobscottle. “Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!”

How to make a Frobscottle

The book describes Frobscottle as a pale green liquid, with the bubbles traveling to the bottom of the glass.

It also has a pale green frothy fizz forming at the bottom. “It was sweet and refreshing. It tastes of vanilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of raspberries on the edge of the flavour.”

And once you have a sweet taste of Frobscottle, then comes the whizzpoppers. “Whizzpoping is a sign of happiness. It is music to our ears!”

So what is a Whizzpopper or Whizzpopping?

It’s a burp that comes out the other end ( a fart) with an enormous green explosion. Yeah, the kids will love that one. Unfortunately, our Frobscottle recipe will not recreate whizzpopping.

But if you have kids, especially boys, their imagination will do the rest!

Unfortunately, our Frobscottle recipe will not recreate whizzpopping.

But if you have kids, especially boys, their imagination will do the rest!

Each one is pretty different. So try them all and come back and let us know your thoughts.

And, of course, we had to add one just for the adults.

The Frobscottle (Kid Friendly)

Ingredients:

  • 2 scoops of vanilla ice-cream
  • 1 ounce of strawberry syrup
  • 3 ounces of sour apple soda

Directions:

  1. In a dessert glass or small bowl, add one ounce of strawberry syrup and three ounces of Sour Apple Soda. Stir the mixture to combine.
  2. Add two scoops of vanilla ice cream to the strawberry and sour apple mixture.
  3. Serve.

So, that’s drink #1

Here’s our second option:

Frobscottle Recipe {with fizz option and without ice cream}

Ingredients:

  • 1- 8 oz cup of club soda or lemonade
  • 1 drop of vanilla extract
  • 1/2 pack of a green Kool-aid mix (OR use 5-6 drops of food coloring)
  • Raspberry Simple Syrup {get the recipe here}
  • 1/2 package of Poprocks

Directions:

  1. Fill acup with lemonade or club soda.
  2. Stir in the green kool-aid mix (or drop in food coloring)
  3. Add vanilla extract.
  4. Stir in Simply Syrup mixture.
  5. Stir until you get the desired color.
  6. When the kids are ready to drink this BFG concoction, drop in a 1/2 package of pop rocks.
  7. Serve.

If you want to make a bigger batch of this (for a party, or several kids, then multiply the recipe per child).

Another way to get this color green is to buy green apple soda at your local grocery store.

If you decide to go this route, mix the green apple soda with the raspberry simple syrup, vanilla extract, and pop rocks.

You may have to drop a little of the green kool-aid mix or food coloring to get the right color green.

And last but not least, our adult version of BFG’s Frobscottle

The Frobscottle (Adult Friendly)

If you want to make a Frobscottle drink for adults, we’re sharing an easy way to give this BFG drink an upgrade.

Grab the recipe below.

Ingredients:

  • 1 ounce of Smirnoff Iced Cake Vodka
  • 2 scoops of vanilla ice-cream
  • 1 ounce of strawberry syrup
  • 3 ounces of sour apple soda

Directions:

  1. Add one ounce of strawberry syrup, Iced Cake Vodka, and three ounces of Sour Apple Soda in a Martini glass. Stir the mixture to combine.
  2. Add two scoops of vanilla ice cream to the strawberry and sour apple mixture.
  3. Serve.

Serves one.

Drink responsibly, and never drink and drive.

The BFG free printables!

Gobblefunk Giant Language from BFG

The BFG printable activities

The BFG Gobblefunk Word Search

The BFG free coloring sheets

Be sure to pin our Frobscottle recipe ideas to your Pinterest board:

BFG's Frobscottle Recipe {Kid & Adult recipes} (2024)

FAQs

What is the fart drink in the BFG? ›

Description. Frobscottle is a green-colored fizzy drink, where the bubbles go down instead of up. This is the cause of Whizzpoppers (which are farts; the verb form of "whizzpopper" is "whizzpop"). It tastes delicious to Sophie and the BFG and to the other giants as well.

Is Frobscottle possible? ›

It implies that the author made it up without worrying about physics. If Frobscottle was less dense that air, it wouldn't stay in a cup. It would float like a helium balloon. There is a liquid less dense than air, but it is nothing you could put air bubbles in.

What's the drink called in BFG? ›

But if you're a giant in Roald Dahl's The BFG, you only know of one kind of drink, and it's called frobscottle. In the book, a girl named Sophie goes to Giant Country with the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG). When she asks for some water to drink, the BFG has never heard of it. He explains that giants drink frobscottle.

Why does the BFG not eat humans? ›

He explains that although most giants do eat humans, he does not because he is the Big Friendly Giant, or BFG; he had carried Sophie off merely so she would not reveal that she had seen a real giant, which would put him at risk of being captured for a zoo-exhibit.

Is the BFG creepy? ›

In addition to the violent scenes mentioned above, The BFG has some scenes that could scare or disturb children under five years. For example: The movie opens with some scary scenes. Sophie is awake in the middle of the night and is frightened by scary noises and creepy shadows.

How old is the original BFG? ›

Roald Dahl's The BFG, or simply The BFG, is a 1989 British animated fantasy adventure made-for-television film directed by Brian Cosgrove from a screenplay by John Hambley, based on the 1982 novel The BFG by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl's The BFG debuted in the United Kingdom on 25 December 1989, on ITV.

Is BFG a real giant? ›

The real BFG! Inspiration for movie giant was Roald Dahl's 6ft 5in builder friend who wiggled ears just like children's book hero. With his big ears, broad shoulders and hands like bunches of bananas, it's easy to see how the world's greatest storyteller found such inspiration in his great friend Walter Saunders.

What does Frobscottle taste like? ›

In the imaginative world of the Big Friendly Giant, there's a fizzy green drink called Frobscottle. The twist? The bubbles go down instead of up, and it tastes like a vanilla float with a hint of raspberries.

What does Frobscottle mean? ›

Frobscottle: a nice drink with soft bubbles

Sometimes a drink is so refreshing, tasty and fulfilling that just calling it a "drink" doesn't do it justice. Roald Dahl again has the perfect word: "frobscottle". So when a drink tastes extra good, you could say, "This frobscottle is absolutely gloriumptious!"

What is Gobblefunk? ›

Gobblefunk is the language the author sometimes used in his many books. Made-up words might sound a bit "propsposterous" (that's "ridiculous"), but to Roald Dahl, they were a way of making sure his readers didn't get bored when reading his books. There are almost 8,000 real and invented words in the dictionary.

What does the BFG call cucumbers? ›

Most giants eat human beans, but the BFG is a vegetarian giant, so he only eats snozzcumbers. A snozzcumber is a knobbly vegetable like an enormous cucumber with black and white stripes. Snozzcumbers taste disgusting but they are all the BFG has to eat, as he refuses to hunt human beans like other giants.

Is BFG a monster? ›

Though the BFG is a gentle soul, the other giants who live in Giant Country are carnivorous monsters who gobble up human beings, called “beans,” every night.

What do BFG stand for? ›

The BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant, but writer Roald Dahl probably hoped your mind would think of something worse.

What is the BFG snozzcumber? ›

The Snozzcumber is a fictional foodstuff featured prominently in this The BFG. The Snozzcumber resembles a cucumber, but differs in various respects. It varies from nine to twelve feet long. It is striped lengthwise black and white, with wart-like growths all over its surface.

What is the taste of Frobscottle? ›

In the imaginative world of the Big Friendly Giant, there's a fizzy green drink called Frobscottle. The twist? The bubbles go down instead of up, and it tastes like a vanilla float with a hint of raspberries.

What does the BFG eat and drink? ›

Since he doesn't eat people and he won't steal from people, the BFG has to eat snozzcumbers, the only food that grows in Giant Country. The ''icky-poo vegetable'' has knobbles on the outside and large seeds on the inside.

How did the Frobscottle taste to Sophie? ›

It was sweet and refreshing. It tasted of vanilla and cream, with just the faintest trace of raspberries on the edge of the flavour. And the bubbles with wonderful. Sophie could actually feel them bouncing and bursting all around her tummy.”

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