A couple of years back I made vodka Jello shots to have an office Holiday party. I had been reliably told that they are still scraping them from the wallpaper within the conference room in March.
These were extremely popular and alarmingly simple to make. With christmas approaching, I decided to share some suggestions.
Make use of a obvious without color type of alcohol, a minimum of as strong as vodka.
Place the vodka within the freezer each day in advance, and then suggest the Jello while using "quick set" recipe. Substitute the cold vodka for that cold water within the quick set recipe.
You could utilize another recipe, obviously, and merely substitute cold vodka for the water (the fast set recipe uses ice for around half water volume). This could create a much more powerful shot.
Allow the Jello "jell," then spoon it into small bathroom-size paper cups for serving purposes. (I usually loved the small Dixie Cups with cartoon figures in it for this function.) By doing this the visitors can invert the cups to their mouths and merely suck lower the entire shot. Or they are able to squeeze the cup to eject the shot. Obviously, they might finish up tossing them at one another or something like that.
Don't pour the liquid pre-jelled Jello in to the cups, since it will hang on to the edges and therefore it will likely be more difficult to extract in the cup. The entire idea is to ensure they are oh-so-simple to suck lower.
For vodka shots, I love using black cherry or black raspberry Jello. For Christmas I remember when i filled a copper Christmas tree formed mold with vodka-enhanced lime Jello, then scattered maraschino cherries to produce an "ornament" effect. This really looked great when offered on the white-colored plate. The visitors offered themselves with spoons and cups.
A friend highlights that lime Jello is particularly good combined with tequila. I am sure it's.
If you want to obtain your visitors snockered, obviously, there's always grain alcohol.
Caution: the mixture of booze and sugar can result in particularly nasty morning-consequences. Also, Jello shots have a tendency to sneak on you, so avoid these if you're driving or else require good thinking processes or bodily coordination.
Getting stated that, enjoy! Happy holidays!
This site was produced on December 2, 1999.
