Booze Pops: Ice Lollies Packed With Grog
FHM and the top shakers at London Cocktail Week created the world’s first boozy ice lollies – eleven cocktail pops from Appletini to Frosty Tom Collins, and how many it takes to get you drunk.
Are you looking for a new and exciting way to funnel alcohol into your system this season? Well, you just found it. We teamed up with our UK team and hooked up with the top shakers at London Cocktail Week to produce the world’s first boozy pops. Yes, you heard that right. We’ve created ice lollies packed with grog. Does life get any better than this?
1. Shiver Me Appletini
What’s in it? 20ml apple liqueur, 15ml lime juice, 10ml sugar syrup, 20ml apple juice, 25ml water.
How do you make it? Mix the ingredients, pour into mould, add a slice of green apple, freeze. Simple.
What does it taste like? Like a frozen green-apple mojito minus mint leaves.
How many would it take to get you pissed? A round dozen should do the trick.
2. Sub Zero Mojito
What’s in it? 20ml rum, 25ml lime juice, 15ml sugar syrup (2:1 sugar to water), 30ml soda water
How do you make it? Mix ingredients, pour into mould, add a few mint leaves, freeze.
What does it taste like? Like a Cuban salsa night has been frozen and injected into your throat. Arriba.
How many would it take to get you pissed? Half a dozen prompted a perma-grin.
3. Snow-White Russian
What’s in it? 15ml vodka, 20ml espresso, 20ml sugar syrup, 20ml double cream, 20ml milk, 30ml water
How do you make it? Mix ingredients, freeze.
What does it taste like? You’ve been kidnapped and you’re being waterboarded with cold Barista lattes.
How many would it take to get you pissed? Unless you’re a caffeine fiend you won’t make it past two.
4. Sicilian Winter
What’s in it? 15ml dry gin, 15ml Campari, 65ml orange juice, 25ml water, 5ml sugar syrup
How do you make it? Mix the Campari, water and sugar syrup, pour into mould, add two thin orange slices and freeze. Then mix the rest and freeze again.
What does it taste like? Aftershave.
How many would it take to get you pissed? Four and you’ll be snogging a lamppost.
5. Chilly Cape Codder
What’s in it? 20ml vodka, 80ml cranberry juice, 15ml sugar syrup, 10ml lime juice
How do you make it? Mix the ingredients, pour into mould, freeze.
What does it taste like? Cranberries. A frozen version of the juice your girlfriend glugs when she’s got cystitis.
How many would it take to get you pissed? We blacked out after seven, so maybe stop at five.
6. Frozen Margarita
What’s in it? 15ml tequila, 20ml lime juice, 20ml sugar syrup, 20ml strawberry puree, 30ml water
How do you make it? Mix, pour into mould, add strawberry slice, freeze.
What does it taste like? Doing a shot of tequila, then eating a bowl of strawberry. Like that?
How many would it take to get you pissed? We ate four and thought we were fine. Then we tried to run…
7. Icy Grass Hopper
What’s in it? 15ml mint flavoured liqueur, 10ml white cacao, 20ml cream, 40ml water.
How do you make it? Pour the alcohol and 20ml of water into mould and freeze. Mix the cream, cacao and 20ml of water, pour on top, freeze again.
What does it taste like? Mouthwash.
How many would it take to get you pissed? We started slurring after four, but boy does our boozy breath smell good.
8. Key West Cooler
What’s in it? 10ml vodka, 15ml Malibu, 40ml cranberry juice, 20ml fresh orange juice, 35ml water
How do you make it? Mix the ingredients, pour into mould, freeze.
What does it taste like? We’re met with a taste reminiscent of the time we necked our mum’s bottle of Malibu.
How many would it take to get you pissed? Four or five – this is one of those stealth booze jobs.
9. Blue Hawaiian
What’s in it? 15ml Blue Curacao, 50ml pineapple juice, 10ml lime juice, 15ml sugar syrup, 20ml water
How do you make it? Mix Blue Curacao and water, freeze. Mix the rest, freeze again.
What does it taste like? Like one of those shooters you get free for walking into a crap bar.
How many would it take to get you pissed? More than you’d wish to digest.
10. Arctic Pimm’s
What’s in it? 20ml Pimm’s, 40ml lemonade, 40ml ginger ale, 20ml water
How do you make it? Mix, pour into mould, add slices of lemon, orange, cucumber and some mint, freeze.
What does it taste like? Like you’re snogging a girl whose family owns more than half of the properties in your locality.
How many would it take to get you pissed? You? Eight. Your new friend? Two.
11. Frosty Tom Collins
What’s in it? 15ml gin, 25ml lemon juice, 15ml sugar syrup, 25ml soda.
How do you make it? Mix the ingredients, pour into mould, add a slice of lemon and a maraschino cherry, freeze.
What does it taste like? It’s like there’s a party in an old folk’s home and your mouth’s invited.
How many would it take to get you pissed? Eat six quickly and you’ll be flying…
Photography: Ria Osbourne.
From the September 2012 issue of FHM India.
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