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The perfect popsicle grown up summer cooler. Gin and Tonic ice lollies!
It’s bank holiday weekend, hurrah! After fairly rubbish weather this summer, the sunshine is due out this weekend and how better to celebrate than with gin and tonic ice lollies. Cooling, refreshing and well.. GIN. And if it rains? Who cares, these popsicles will make it all better.
I love a good gin and tonic. When I first started drinking it, in my mid twenties, people occasionally looked at me like I could be Pat Butcher drinking in the Queen Vic. These days it’s totally socially acceptable, even, dare I say it, a bit hip. There’s gin festivals popping up everywhere and more different independent distillers crafting the botanical spirit than you can shake a bottle of tonic at.
Do make sure that you leave your tonic to go flat before freezing if you can help it. It stops everything bubbling up as you fill the ice lolly moulds and gives a nice smooth finish to the outside of the lollies.
The best way to make the perfect amount of these is to fill one of your ice lolly moulds with water, then weigh it. This will tell you how many millilitres of liquid each mould holds, so 100g = 100ml. So if you want to make 6 lollies, you need 600ml of mixture, still with me?
Then make about 20% gin and 80% tonic, so in that case 120ml gin and 480ml tonic. Boom, perfect amount. Or, if you prefer make a jug full and drink the left overs?
Fancy some more gin recipes…?
- In the mood for cake..try my Gin andTonic Cake bars.
- Looking for a gift for a gin lover…look no further than my Gin and Tonic Truffles Recipe with White Chocolate
- Just want to drink the stuff? Raspberry Gin slushies.
Hope you enjoy this recipe?I’d love to know how you got on and what you thought of it if you make this recipe. Please rate the recipe using the ⭐️ below!
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How to Make Gin & Tonic Popsicles:
Gin and Tonic Ice Lollies
Ingredients
- 2 Parts Gin
- 8 Parts Tonic, allowed to go flat
- Juice of 2 Limes
- Half a Cucumber, very thinly sliced
Instructions
- Please read the notes above about volume!
- Mix the gin, tonic and lime juice.
- Share between your moulds and pop a couple of slices of cucumber into each.
- Freeze for at least 6 hours or overnight.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Love it!! Great idea for this summer holidays defs doing it thank you 🤗
Summer here in South Africa and I am on diet. This is Perfect! I get to have my gin and eat it ❤️❤️❤️
Roll on summer, I loved these last year
What a great idea, I need to make these next summer. It’s getting a bit chilly for ice lollies at the minute! xx
I think you have made my weekend! These look AMAZING and I think I need them in my life x
Why hadn’t I thought of doing this?! Genius! x
These look absolutely delicious and so simple – great idea!
Mmm these sound divine! I’m a relative newcomer to Gin – I decided I need to like it when I had my 3rd daughter – I did really well at practising and learning to like g&t’s! Thanks loads for including my Gin & Lime cake – I hope you have a fantastic weekend and can still remember it after slurping on those delicious lollies! 🙂
Oooh I do love grown up ice lollies, they can’t all be for the children! Lovely!