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[cleolinda]

Quick, emergency question (for a friend's birthday preparations): simple Jello shot recipe? Like, "replace the cold water with vodka" simple?

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[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

We had awesome results with Strawberry Vodka and, I think it was like, wild berry jello? Tart taste goes well with the alcohol!

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I wonder if it would be weird to try that with grape vodka and make an entire platter of jello shots ALL FOR ME.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, she used wild berry Jello. Unfortunately, she just had a huge bottle of plain Smirnoff, but what're you gonna do.

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Try Malibu rum in those jello shots. Obviously, YMMV depending on what sort of Jello it is. And has your friend seen the limited-edition alcoholic helper Jello flavors? There's a margarita one, and I forget what else. Mint mojito, maybe?

I also suggest that your friend try making some Jello Chocolate Pudding with kahlua substituted for milk, which I personally love even more. :9

[k-puff.livejournal.com]

I also suggest that your friend try making some Jello Chocolate Pudding with kahlua substituted for milk, which I personally love even more. :9

Jesus H. Christ, that sounds SO GOOD. XP I'm a slut for kahlua...

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Jello Chocolate Pudding with kahlua substituted for milk

Sign me up for your next party! Mmmm.

[girlsetsfire345.livejournal.com]

You are obviously a genius. On par with Einstein. As a college student who dislikes beer, you might even be Jesus to me.
Your icon says it all. I love it.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

*wins the Worst College Student in the World award for not knowing the answer to this question*

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

but now you do. Isn't that great?

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

• take gummi bears
• drop in wide-mouthed container of vodka
• let soak until they swell with the vodka
• eat/drink gummi vodka bears.

[jaded-lady.livejournal.com]

*cries* my god, that's beautiful.

[daemonnoire.livejournal.com]

Lord... Don't just replace the water, that's alcohol poisoning waiting to happen.

Most Jellos go "Add X amount of boiling water, stir. Add Y amount of cool water, chill."

For Jello shots, just do half of Y in water, and half in vodka. If you're really looking for a thrill, use Everclear. Just don't let people down the suckers.

[grnarmadillo.livejournal.com]

Unless you've got a professional bartender (or equivalent willing to watch the shots at all times), or EVERYONE at the party has a lot of experience on the safe consumption of the things, Everclear jello shots are a terrible idea. The chances that someone doesn't understand what the alcohol content is and winds up in the hospital are way too high.

[sunihiroku.livejournal.com]

I've always used half-water, half-vodka (or other liquor). We did coconut rum in pineapple jello shots last time--piña coladas, YUM! There is so much fun to be had by coming up with different flavor combinations. The pudding/Kalhua recipe someone posted above looks great, too!

[binarystream.livejournal.com]

Half water with half vodka is a good balance. Any more alcohol than that and the jello starts to recrystalize. It's not very pleasant that way.

[mustang-bex1126.livejournal.com]

Ha- glad to see other's have given you some advice already- I read that you were thinking of just substituting vodka I did a spit take "Oh dear God no!" Only do half, and if you're not heavy drinkers, I would suggest not swapping for everclear, but the pineapple jello and malibu rum sounds awesome. Also pudding + kaluha = LOVE

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

It turns out that these are hard-drinkin' folk (most of them are actually bartenders), so we compromised and did 3/4 vodka, 1/4 cold water. It was four packages, so it was three cups of vodka to one cup water total.

[sweetle.livejournal.com]

I've always used the "replace the cold water with vodka" rule, and I don't think it's too much. Possibly I'm just an alcoholic. But that means the shots are only half vodka (the other half being the hot water), so, as long as you're not consuming a ridiculous number, it shouldn't be any worse than regular shots of the booze of your choice.

Also: flavoured vodka makes it extra yummy.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I second this. Half and half has always worked well for me, and my roommate (who is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Jello Shot) recommends lime jello specifically for hiding the boozy taste.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I would think cinnimin (sp) schnaps with a tart apple jello of some sort would be good, or perhaps even apple shnapps with apple jello.

[megathy27.livejournal.com]

I second (or third or whatever) the idea of substituting vodka for the cold water, it works pretty well. Also, orange jello goes best with vodka, grape not so much. Good luck!

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

These guys (http://www.myscienceproject.org/j-shot-3.html) did a report on the best tasting Jello shots, and have quite a few recipes listed. They also did one on how to get the highest alcohol content into your Jello shots, but I dunno if that's a concern right now.

And there's the WikiHow on it (http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Jello-Shots), too.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

Jello shots. What a terrible crime to perpetrate on innocent, unsuspecting vodka. So please, please make sure your vodka is cheap and slutty.

Yarha, Suggests Classic Punch, Possibly Frozen in 'Novel' Body-Part Shapes

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's just Smirnoff. I don't think they were going to buy that much vodka and spend money on the good stuff.

[starlady42.livejournal.com]

Since this is turning into a general recipe thread (Seriously? Chocolate pudding with Kahlua? Might be what I'm having for dinner), I would be remiss in not mentioning the Awesomeness that is lime Jello with tequila and triple sec -- Jello margaritas!

Another fun one is Jello Tequila Sunrises... takes a bit of work but very worth it. You need both red Jello (any flavor, really, since they don't make "grenadine" flavor) and orange Jello. Make up the red first, with or without alcohol, pour a bit into the bottom of whatever cups you're using (we used clear plastic party cups), and stick 'em in the fridge. Then, make up the orange Jello using tequila (and water, in whatever ratio you want) and, after the red has set up a bit, pour the orange in on top of it. Since we were making glasses and not shots, we served them with spoons, but suppose you could also make the Jello up like jigglers, then cube it and put a couple of red cubes and a bunch of orange cubes in each glass so that people could use their hands.

[starlady42.livejournal.com]

Also, these just popped up in a Gmail ad for me:
http://www.twistnshot.com/

Heath Ledger?!

[gaminette.livejournal.com]

Is he really dead?! WTF?!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/

Re: Heath Ledger?!

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

That was my reaction too. Holy cow. This doesn't look like it's going to be a better year for celebrities than last year, does it?

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

Unrelated, really, really depressing news.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jpzdve6RF9k9My1ItZGj3eRprEEwD8UB6JT81

Heath Ledger has died at age 28 of a possible suicide. Sleeping pills were found in the bed next to him.

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

He was twenty-eight? Oh, man. I thought he was thirty-eight. :( Only the good die young, I guess . . .

[christigilly.livejournal.com]

OMG. Yahoo front page right now: "Heath Ledger dies."

OMG.

[greenleafgurl17.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT I just logged into my Yahoo email and saw the Heath Ledger thing! O.O WHAAAAAAAAAAAT.

I liked him...

Article here if anyone didn't read it yet: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_en_ce/obit_ledger

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I was about to comment that half at least of your commenters seemed to have been sampling the Jello shots while typing, but the Heath Ledger news sort of stopped me flat. How depressing.