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**Full Disclosure: ย The Popsicles featured here should not be given to anyone under the age of 21 {or whatever the legal drinking age is where you live}.**

There, now I can’t be sued right? ย **blink, blink**

For our recent block party, I wanted to take something a little fun and different as my contribution. ย Lastย year’s Cranberry Moonshine punch wasn’t much of a hit because someone knocked it over within the first 10 minutes of it being out there {sorry Mr. and Mrs. Beergarita for your {still} dead grass}.

This year, I chose something spill proof: poptails {a.k.a. boozy Popsicles}

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I got the idea while reading The Kitchn one day. ย Their recipes all sounded ah-mazing but, since this was my first try, I wanted to do something fairly simple. ย Enter their recipe for Strawberry Basil Margaritas.

Easy peasy…turn a drink recipe into a Popsicle and be done. ย I do it all the time with V8 V-Fusion for the kids.ย 
So, I grabbed my ingredients and got to poptail making

Sliced Strawberries

I mixed the drink as written and then threw in a few extra strawberry slices into each of the Popsicle molds. ย I froze them overnight in our big freezer.

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Success…as long as you don’t want to actually eat it!

Yep, this first attempt was a total poptail fail. ย I really should have taken pictures of the faces of my taste testers to illustrate exactly how awful these were. ย 
I guess I now have two things I don’t do well in the kitchen: bake and bar tend.

I was not giving up though and tried to solve the problem. I grabbed a new batch of strawberries, basil, tequila…and a blender!
I cut my strawberries in half and threw them, with the rest of my ingredients, into the blender.



Once they were all mixed up, I poured them into my popsicle mold and back into the freezer they went until the next day.

Yep…actual success this time! ย These were edible and pretty delicious!
Of course, with all the trial and error, I ran out of time to actually produce enough for the block party. ย Oh well, there is always next year.

Want to make them yourself? ย 
You will need:
1.25 lbs of strawberries, hulled and halved
1/2 cup tequila
10 basil leaves
1/2 cup granulated sugar (superfine is best)
1 Tbsp lime juice

Blend it all together in the blender. ย You can then push the mixture through a sieve if you want them to be less seedy {I did half and half}. ย Pour them into your popsicle mold {leaving room for expansion} and freeze for 24 hours.

Enjoy responsibly.
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20 Comments

  1. boozy popsicles? yes and yes! i’ve been sipping some pineapple soda and coconut rum…i bet that’d be good as popsicle, too.

  2. Yummy these are great,I need to try these:) thanks for linking up to Creative Mondays…

  3. Oh I know what I will be doing tomorrow. What an inspirational post! I would love it if you share this awesome post at our What’s It Wednesday linky party. I hope you can join us!

    Paula
    ivyandelephants.blogspot.com

  4. Hi, coming over from Love notes by Lauren! Thanks..that’s my kind of popsicle for sure!! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  5. OMG! That looks so refreshing and delicious! What a great treat for Mom and Dad! Thanks for sharing at the Pomp Party! Pinning to our Pomp Party board!

  6. This is fantastic! We have the same pops and I love the strawberries in them. I hope you will link this up to The CSI project this week starting Wednesday. The challenge is Frozen treats and Push Up Pops. You just might win.
    Each day we have a fun tutorial and on Wednesday you can start linking up!
    Come on over!
    http://www.thecsiproject.com

  7. Man, these sound yummy! We really love strawberry basil lemonade with rum in it. We should turn it into a poptail. Thanks for the inspiration!

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