How to Make Jello Shots

Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Carmelia

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Jello shots are popular in college parties, especially for college freshmen who are just learning how to take a drink. Jello shots are pretty delicious, sweet and fairly easy to make. Here’s how.

What You Need

Jello packets in different flavors
Vodka, flavored rum, tequila
Vegetable cooking oil spray
Small plastic cups
Water
Measuring cup
Whisk
Kettle
Oven
Refrigerator
Shallow baking pan (optional)

Making Jello Shots

Line up your small plastic cups on a tray. The plastic cups restaurants use for condiments are ideal, but normal picnic cups should be good, too. Paper cups can also work.
Spray vegetable cooking oil inside the cups. A quick blast will do. You don’t have to worry about the oil affecting the jello’s taste—it won’t.
Put a cup of water to boil. Nope, a water heater won’t do—you really need to boil the water to ensure the jello powder dissolves completely.
Once boiled, pour the water into a mixing bowl. Put in a single of packet of jello. Use a whisk to dissolve all the jello powder so it won’t leave any sediments.
Mix in ¾ cup of your alcohol and ¼ cup of cold water. Vodka is usually the alcohol of choice when it comes to jello shots, but there are alternatives. To recall favorite cocktails, you can try using tequila for lime jello (margarita), coconut rum and pineapple jello (piña colada) and rum with strawberry jello (strawberry daiquiri). You can also use flavored vodka to go along with its corresponding jello flavor.
If you want an even more potent jello shots, you can make it 1 cup of alcohol with no cold water.
Use a ladle to put the jello into the cups.
If you want to make several batches of different jello flavors in one go and boil all the water you need, you will need assistance, since jello requires boiling hot water to dissolve properly. You can try making one batch of the same flavor at the same time instead of doing different flavors instead.
Put the jello shots in the refrigerator. Do not put them in the freezer! Give them four hours to gel completely.
If you find that your refrigerator won’t’ be able to hold trays of cups or a bunch of plastic cups inside, here’s an alternative: Ladle the liquid jello shots into a shallow baking pan, preferably the pans that can be stacked up on each other. Pop them all carefully in the refrigerator, and wait for four hours. Once they’ve gelled, take them out and use a bread knife or even a plastic knife to cut them into small squares. Empty the baking pans into punch bowls and leave a ladle ready. People can then just ladle the jello shots into their cups like any drink.
You can try experimenting with the amounts of water and what you mix in your jello. For example, some people use two cups of boiling hot water added with a little less of a cup of fruit juice, and another less of a cup of flavored vodka. Just remember that the more liquids you put in, whether they are alcohol, water or juice, the greater the chance of your jello shots not gelling properly.
Keep in mind that jello shots may pack a punch, so you might want to keep yourself from knocking back one too many.