8 Ways to Try Fancy Ice, TikTok's Favorite Drink Enhancer

TikTok's long-standing obsession with fancy ice never fails to inspire, then promptly make us thirsty. On #IceTok, creative users have been combining fruit, veggies, herbs, and even flowers with various liquids and then freezing them in ice trays. The resulting cubes (or not cubes, depending on the kind of tray you use) come out in all kinds of fun shapes and sizes, for use in water, coffee, cocktails — even soups. (Bone broth heads unite.)

Flavored ices serve many purposes: they can add color and taste to water, stop iced coffee from getting watered down, make handcrafted cocktails or mocktails even more aesthetically pleasing. Even plain ice frozen in a fun tray (many TikTokers are fond of small and large spheres, which look like adorable frozen bubbles when added to water) can add a little extra fun to something as mundane as your daily drink.

The best part about fancy ice? As DIY treats go, it's super low effort and low cost. Plus, it can help you make your kitchen more sustainable by giving you a new way to use up fruits and veggies that would otherwise go bad. And who doesn't love cozying up with a fun drink?

Read on to learn more about some of our favorite fancy ice methods on IceTok, and shop the ice trays you need to make them happen.