Mardi Gras Jello Shots
The traditional colors of Mardi Gras are yellow, green, and purple are combined into Jello shots without having to use packaged Jello. Choose your own flavors too!
Servings: 20 shots
Equipment
- Plastic disposable condiment cups
Ingredients
- 2 cups lemon flavored carbonated water
- ½ cup sugar
- ⅛ cup lemon juice
- ½ cup Triple Sec
- 1 ½ cups vodka
- food coloring: purple, green, yellow
- 3 envelopes Knox gelatin
- 24 1 oz. condiment cups with lids
- ¾ cup water, divided
Instructions
- Set out three equal sized bowls.
- Mix the lemon carbonated water, sugar, lemon juice, Triple Sec, and vodka together in a large mixing down, stirring until sugar dissolves.
- Pour equally into the three bowls. Add food coloring to each bowl: purple, yellow, green. Stir with a spoon to mix.
- Heat up ¼ cup water in a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup with a spout (or something similar with a spout) for 60 seconds. Take the hot water out of the microwave and add in one gelatin package. Use a spoon to stir, let sit for 2 minutes until the gelatin is fully dissolved.
- Add one bowl of what will be the bottom layer color into the gelatin. Stir together well.
- Line up the condiment cups on a baking sheet. Evenly pour the gelatin color mixture into the cups. Pour a little at a time, you can always add more to each cup to make them even. You may not need all of the gelatin mixture for the first layer and can throw it out when done.
- Refrigerate the first layer for at least 2 hours.
- Repeat steps 3-7 for the next two layers.