Jello Shots!

I shared this blog post from Clockwork Lemon with Chris and he was psyched.  She used a petit-four pan as a jello mold.  We own the same pan! But you know what she was missing?  ALCOHOL.  Woo-hoo, we're classing up the joint.  Chris made some for a backyard BBQ.  Not as appropriate as pasta salad, but perhaps more welcome.

Ta Da!  I took these pics with Chris's fancy SLR, but have not yet mastered depth of field.

The flavors were rum & coke, orange vodka creamsicle, lemon vodka, fresh blueberry puree with rum,  sake with gummi bears, and strawberry with vodka cream.  Delicious.  Chris had made these before for a birthday party so he actually already had all these recipes.

Chilling in the fridge.  To create layers, he had to chill then pour then chill again.

We also made regular ol' jello shots in these little sample cups.  Chris layered these too.  Because they came with lids, they were fast and easy to stack on top of each other.  The molds are pretty but they're not quick.

Jello shot cups with the first layer of flavor.  Note the tupperware full of complete shots in the back.

Sake jello shots!  Chris floats a gummi bear in the middle.  It looks like the Japanese flag (sorta) this way.

Inevitably, there is leftover jello.  Chris poured whatever was left in layers in a regular bowl and chopped them up.
This was very tasty.

Making jello shots requires a lot of fridge space. By the end, our fridge mostly held jello and beer.  What did I tell you?  Classy.

Oh, and here's an attempt at artsy fartsiness.  While Chris was busy working, I was kind of hanging around, sampling, and, as a result, getting increasingly tipsy.  Those things sneak up on you.