Tropical Alcoholic Freeze Pops Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How much alcohol to add to freeze pops? ›

Mix Your Base With Booze

For a 10-slot popsicle mold, utilize 4½ cups, or 36 ounces, of your base liquid, mixed with a ½ cup of your added alcohol, or the equivalent to three shots. You can choose to use a versatile, clear option such as vodka or gin, but bourbon, tequila or any other liquor will work.

Fortunately, there's an easy way to prevent this unwanted outcome by using an unexpected ingredient: cornstarch. When you're creating the mixture for your popsicles, you can add a few teaspoons of cornstarch. Blend it with the rest of your ingredients, then pour the liquid into the popsicle molds as usual.

Most home freezers are set for 0°F. This means, if you want your alcoholic beverage to freeze, you need to bring its alcohol-by-volume (abv) down to that sweet spot where the water in the bottle freezes and solidifies the alcohol along with it, rather than the two separating and turning into a slushie.

About 6 to 8 hours, depending on how cold your freezer is. It is best to take them out of the box and spread them around lying flat on their sides.

Too much liquor—particularly anything over 40 proof—and it will not freeze. With ice pops, it is best to keep the mixer-to-alcohol ratio at 4-to-1 or lower. The same is true when freezing spiked granitas (Italian ice). In the case of fruit sorbets, a solidly frozen dessert is not the goal.

Freezer Pops can be consumed without freezing, but the flavors are best when frozen. Note: Like colored ices, Pedialyte Freezer Pops may temporarily color mouth.

The pectin makes the pops smoother, less icy, and softer to bite. With just a little bit of sugar plus a lemon juice and citric acid to make the flavors even brighter, you have yourself one perfect summer treat.

I like to puree naturally sweetened fruit with lemon or lime for some acidity to reduce the overly icy texture. Fruit juice such as orange, lemon, guava, grape, or apple makes the most reliable pops that tend to melt slower. A combination of puree and juice mixed also works to infuse different flavors.

There are many ways to create popsicles with a pleasing texture and avoid the rock-hard bite. Sugar, dairy, cornstarch, gelatin, pectin, and alcohol all help keep ice crystal formation small, which makes for a softer texture.

All alcohol will freeze at a cold enough temperature, but any proof higher than 50 will not freeze in a conventional freezer. This covers the majority of harder spirits you may buy, but beer, wine, and liqueurs will certainly freeze with enough time.

Does adding water to alcohol make it freeze? ›

Generally, alcohol freezes around -100 C or -150 F. This is well below the temperature of most freezers. Mixing alcohol with water or any other chemical changes its freezing point. A water and alcohol mixture freezes but still generally below the temperature of a home freezer.

Truly's freeze pops are five percent ABV, so this will be right up your alley if you like hard lemonade and hard seltzer.

All you do is cut off the top of the tube of an unfrozen pop, pour out some of the liquid, and pour back in a shot or so's worth of liquor. Vodka always works, but you can also add rum to the citrusy flavors and pretend this is equivalent to a daiquiri.

The adult-approved hack is quite straightforward. Just snip off the top plastic tip of your unfrozen ice pop with scissors, and pour out a bit of the liquid to make room for the hard stuff. Then, funnel in a shot or so of your favorite liquor, but not too much, so the concoction is still able to freeze.

If your vodka has an ABV (alcohol by volume) of 40%, it will probably freeze at around -16° Fahrenheit or -26° Celsius. The reason the freezing point is so low for liquor is due to the ethanol content. This is also why beer and wine can freeze if they're left in your freezer long enough.

Pure ethanol alcohol needs to be -173 degrees Fahrenheit to freeze. At around 40 percent alcohol (80 proof), vodka has a freezing point that hovers at around -16 degrees Fahrenheit. And while putting it in the freezer will affect it somewhat, it won't freeze solid in your traditional freezer.