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At the request of a friend, I thought I would publish my recipe for jello shots. It’s nothing special, the difference is in the details.

Ingredients

1 small pkg. Jell-O brand instant gelatin (any flavor, not sugar free)
1 cup boiling water
1 cup chilled citrus vodka
18-24 1oz cups

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It’s just about as simple as it sounds. Wisk the jello and the boiling water for 2 mins or so, making sure to not leave any sediment. Stir in the chilled vodka and start dishing into serving cups. I get the little 1oz plastic cups from the local party store. It will fill 18-24 1oz cups, depending on how full you fill them. Place the cups on a sheet or pan of some sort and put into the fridge.

These should chill for 2-4 hours in the fridge. For less time to “solidify”, use less boiling water and chilled vodka. Do not drop below 3/4 cup of each.

Tips & Tricks

• Vodka doesn’t freeze at typical freezer temperatures, so keep the vodka in the freezer. Let sit in freezer at least an hour or 2 before making the shots.
• In drinks of this nature, it is not necessary to get good vodka, as there are strong flavors to overpower it. I usually get Gordon’s for this in the cheap plastic bottle. Be sure to get citrus. Berry flavors do not mix as well with an array of flavors and does not mask the cheap vodka as well. This is one of the very few instances I will advise getting cheap liquor (or cheap anything for that matter, I’m a bit of a brand whore).
• In order to keep the sides of the little cups from getting sticky, rather than scoop the cups into the liquid gelatin, set them out on a tray/cookie sheet and use a turkey baster to fill the cups.
• Consider buying throw away foil pans to stack to carry these in. No one wants to wash pans at a party or bring back sticky pans in your car.
• Cut out the front of the jello boxes and place them on top of the shots that they represent. This helps identify which flavors are which (instead of by color). The party guests usually get a kick out of this.
• Unless you are a closet sorority girl wanna-be, you will only be making these for parties, so in large quantities. This means several batches (my last session I used 7 packages of jello). Put a big pot of boiling water on the stove, use a separate mixing bowl to mix the gelatin mixture. This way between different flavored batches you only have to clean 1 bowl (and your wisk).

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