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Cherry Bomb Jello Shot Recipe

Mikey — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 12:06:00 +0000

Cherry bombs have been pretty popular lately, and until a couple weeks ago I had no Jello shot recipes with Red Bull in them. I posted the Vitamin C a couple days ago, and here’s a new one.

1 6 oz box Cherry Jello

1 cup boiling water

1 ½ cups 3 Olives Cherry Vodka

1 ½ cups Red Bull

Dissolve Jello in boiling water. Add vodka and Red Bull. Stir until well mixed. Portion and refrigerate 2-3 hours. Enjoy.

Vitamin C Jello shot recipe

Mikey — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:31:49 +0000

This is also called a Tic Tac, and I’ll tell you why I know the other name. I went to a bar and ordered a Vitamin C … the bartender looked at me like I had some kind of mental disorder. I proceeded to tell her what was in it and she screamed at me “That’s called a Tic Tac” After she poured it, I paid for it and took all of my change and said “That’s called not getting tipped for being such a bitch.” Here’s the Jello shot version of the recipe.

1 6 oz box orange Jello

1 cup boiling water

1 ½ cups Absolut mandarin(cheaper orange vodka works, but mandarin tastes the best)

1 can Red Bull (small one)

½ cup orange juice

Dissolve the Jello in the boiling water. Add the vodka, Red Bull, and orange juice and stir gently with a serving spoon until well mixed. Pour into 2 oz plastic portion cups. Chill 2-3 hours and enjoy.

Raspberry Watermelon Jello Shot and Martini

Mikey — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:07:12 +0000

Here’s something different, it’s a Jello shot recipe that got turned into a martini. Pretty cool, huh? I was making a batch of Jello shots for a bar I was working at, pretty early in my creative process. I tried a few of the shots when I got off work, and decided it needed to be a drink. I tried out the drink on the rocks first, but it wasn’t quite right, so I chilled it and put it in a martini glass. Drink or Jello shot recipe first? Don’t know what I’m asking you for you won’t be able to answer until after this is posted, so I’ll list them in the order I invented them in.

1 6oz box raspberry Jello
1 cup boiling water
1 cup Absolut Raspberry Vodka
¾ cup Watermelon Pucker
¼ cup Chambord
½ cup cranberry juice
½ cup sweet and sour mix

Dissolve Jello in boiling water. Add vodka, Pucker, Chambord, cranberry and sweet and sour. Stir gently with a serving spoon until well mixed, but stop before you get air bubbles in it. Pour Jello into 2 oz portion cups, and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours until they set up. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, here’s the recipe for the martini I turned this into.

1 shot Absolut raspberry
¾ shot watermelon pucker
½ shot Chambord
splash cranberry
splash sweet and sour

Pour all ingredients into a shaker full of ice. Shake the hell out of it until the shaker is almost too cold to hold on to anymore, and strain into a martini glass. Garnish by dropping a fresh raspberry in the bottom of the glass and put a small wedge of watermelon on the rim of the glass. This drink smells fantastic if you use Absolut. I think it tastes a little better with Raspberry Stoli, but the nose part of the experience suffers greatly.

My sister had a kick ass idea while we were making the video for this, and I think she changed the recipe. Instead of a 6 oz box of raspberry jello, use 1 3 oz box of raspberry and 1 3 oz box of watermelon.

Cherry Cheesecake Jello Shot

Mikey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:38:59 +0000

This one is my last roommate’s favorite Jello shot I ever made up. It’s called a cherry cheesecake. It’s quite tasty, and the Bailey’s in it changes the texture of the Jello making it a little more interesting than your run of the mill Jello shots.

1 6 oz. box cherry Jello
1 cup boiling water
1¼ cups Smirnoff vanilla twist vodka
¾ cup Bailey’s Irish Cream
1 cup cranberry juice

Dissolve Jello in boiling water. Add the vodka and cranberry juice and stir until well mixed with a large serving spoon. Let the mixture cool closer to room temperature for 10 minutes or so. I added the Bailey’s when the Jello was still kind of hot the first time I made these, and it curdled. Add the Bailey’s and pour the mix into 2 oz. portion cups with a pitcher, or measuring cup. My favorite measuring cup for this is one of those that is used for separating the floating grease from chicken stock. The pour spout comes out of the bottom of the cup, I don’t seem to spill as much with them. You can actually use a wire whip to stir these if you want to cuz the Bailey’s is going to make bubbles in the Jello no matter what you do. Still no cooking spray in the portion cups. It’s Jello, it’s not supposed to be greasy. It’s not that hard to get the shot out of the cup with your tongue. If you do have trouble with it you need the practice anyway. Enjoy the Jello, there will be more later.

Gourmet Strawberry Lemonade Jello Shots

Mikey — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:14:57 +0000

This is an idea I came up with after seeing George Thorogood at a county fair. It was during a heat wave in August, and there wasn’t a beer garden at the fair, so I must have had five or six strawberry lemonades at the Hot Dog on a Stick booth. A few days later, I went to a BBQ at a buddy’s house where I was assigned the task of bringing the Jello shots. I am fed up with people making Jell-O shots that are just liquor, water, and Jell-o and acting like they make the best ones in the world. This is the first in a long line of Jello shot recipes I have come up with that actually are the best ones ever.

1-6oz box Strawberry Jell-O

1 cup hot water

1½ cup Citrus Vodka

1 cups sweet and sour mix

¼ cup strawberry puree or strawberry daiquiri mix

1 sliced lemon

Dissolve Jell-O in hot water. Pour citrus vodka into a drink shaker with ice and sliced lemon and muddle the bejesus out of it for a minute or two then strain the liquid into the dissolved Jell-o mixture. Add the sweet and sour mix and strawberry puree and stir gently with a serving spoon until all ingredients are well mixed. Do not use a wire whip for this step, or you will get air bubbles in the mix. This is a pain in the ass, and they won’t go away. When the Jell-O sets, the bubbles will still be in there taking up space in the portion cup. Once you have all the ingredients mixed well, put them in a pitcher or measuring cup with a pour spout and pour into two ounce plastic portion cups. Don’t line the cups with cooking spray to keep the shots from sticking, it tastes nasty and just shouldn’t be done. You should get between 16 and 18 shots from this recipe.