Two Colour Jello Shots

I have a lot of shit I've made in the last year that I have been too lazy to post about. I should use my new found urge to blog and blog as much as I can before I get lazy again lol.
Aside from cooking I also love making drinks/bartending. My love for this started when Quarters (now 1280) at McMaster offered a one day bar tending course that I took part in lolol. Shit was pretty fun and I've been trying to be a master bartender ever since; along with trying to be a master chef and prince of tennis :P

Two Colour Jello Shots
I made these for Rong Time's last birthday (don't think she remembers though but that's all good lol!). I think a lot of people liked them, but I was told there was one hater. I wish I knew it was good but by the time I gave them to her party, I was super drunk and could not taste/judge the quality that well lol!

I'm particularly proud of this because I think I invented this version of the jello shot. I think the other kinds of two flavour jello shots are all horizontal splits :D

You can use any flavour but the ones I made were Passion Fruit/Black Currant

Recipe

*You can make these alcoholic (like I did) or virgin

**This recipe is for one half of the jello shot meaning you have to do this twice

***If you want to make alternating colours like in the picture above, then you need to divide this recipe by half and divide out the juice, and then repeat the same thing for the second half. A little complicated, just takes a bit of math and planning lolol.

****READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE YOU TRY lololol

- 1/4 cups cold water (or your alcohol of choice)
- 1 packets of unflavored gelatin (I used 1 pouch of Knox brand gelatin which is about 1 tbsp)

- 1/2 cups boiling water
- 1 1/4 cups juice (don't use fresh juice or frozen pineapple or kiwi because it would set)
- 1/2 cups sugar (optional)

- Food colouring

Equiqment

- Ice Cube Trays and/or egg cartons or anything similar (I'll explain later)

Instructions

- Start boiling your water and put the cold water into a large bowl and put gelatine in and let it soften for about 5 min

- Add 1/2 cup boiling water (and optional sugar in) to the gelatine and stir until it dissolves

- Let it cool down and add your juice and you are ready to start assembling these bad boys

Important Notes:

- When it comes to choosing what juice you want, the key is to choosing juice that is REALLY sweet. The reason is that if you use something like juice from a juice box, it will be extremely watered down when you add 1/2 cup boiling water and 1/4 cup cold water (or alcohol). In order to balance that out you need to add the sugar or have really sweet juice. I prefer making the really sweet juice rather than adding sugar.

- What I did for this recipe is use fruit juice syrup mixed with some water, and I made sure that it was about double the sweetness. I used Monin Passion Fruit syrup and Ribena Blackcurrant syrup

- I can also imagine you could use those frozen concentrates and just add a little bit of water. As long as the juice you are adding is super sweet and concentrated then it's all good

- I added food colouring as a presentation thing. I found that regular juice is not dark enough. Especially after you add the boiling water and alcohol so I added some food colouring so that it was completely opaque.

Assembly

This is where the whole deal gets time consuming.

- Pour the jello so it fills halfway up the shot glass or fill it to the point where it covers the bottom of the shot glass and makes it way to the top when you angle the shot glass. Might be a little more than half can't remember. (I used plastic ones I found at the dollar store)

- In order to get the jello to set diagonally in the shot glass you need to place the shot glasses on an angle in the ice cube trays. This part is a long a delicate process. Just look at the picture:

- Not sure how to explain this next part but basically if you don't rotate the shot glasses while they are on an angle before they set, you will get an imperfect line. The picture is below, but basically the jello mix clings on to the dry shot glass in a weird way so by rotating the shot glass when it is angle, you wet the sides of it and the water sets in a straight line. The picture shows what I'm talking about. Sorry if that is a bit unclear.

 - Let the jello set in the fridge for a couple of hours then make the second batch and pour it into the shot glasses and put them back in the fridge (no need to put on an angle this time) and let the second half can set and dats it. Game ova.

I'll post up some pics of actual drinks I've made tomorrow or something lawl. This post got too long again.