Poptails for Mommy {and Daddy}
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There, now I can’t be sued right? **blink, blink**
For our recent block party, I wanted to take something a little fun and different as my contribution. Last 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. Their recipes all sounded ah-mazing but, since this was my first try, I wanted to do something fairly simple. Enter their recipe for Strawberry Basil Margaritas.
Easy peasy…turn a drink recipe into a Popsicle and be done. I do it all the time with V8 V-Fusion for the kids.
So, I grabbed my ingredients and got to poptail making
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I mixed the drink as written and then threw in a few extra strawberry slices into each of the Popsicle molds. I froze them overnight in our big freezer.
Success…as long as you don’t want to actually eat it!
Yep, this first attempt was a total poptail fail. I really should have taken pictures of the faces of my taste testers to illustrate exactly how awful these were.
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! 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. Oh well, there is always next year.
Want to make them yourself?
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. You can then push the mixture through a sieve if you want them to be less seedy {I did half and half}. Pour them into your popsicle mold {leaving room for expansion} and freeze for 24 hours.
Enjoy responsibly.
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