Candy Cane Vodka...

So loads of you followed our advice back in September, and made some alcohol with different fruits and sugar. The only downside to Blackberry Gin (that we've found) is how long it takes.

So what do you do if you don't have that long?

Easy - use sweets!


You can flavour alcohol with any hard candy - just make sure it's vegan if you are, and then you're laughing. We made Candy Cane vodka for a party we've having on New Year's Eve, but you could go wild - how about using hard fruit sweets to make a rainbow of different flavours! What about Rhubarb and Custard, or Kola Kubes?

All you need is two ingredients - alcohol, and sweets. We chose vodka, but it's totally up to your personal preference.

Per 1 litre bottle of spirits you'll need around 100g of sweets - or however many you've got. The more you have, the stronger the taste will be. For our Candy Cane vodka, we had 10 full size candy canes, so we used those.

In order to make this drink ready in the shortest amount of time, whack your sweets in the food processor, and whizz them into a fine powder. The finer the powder, the quicker it works. We had some chunks in ours, but it turned out fine!

Next, funnel the powder into an empty bottle, and top with the alcohol. Give it a good shake. Your alcohol will be ready to drink once the powder has all disappeared - this will be around 24-48 hours. If you don't have that long, leave it as long as possible, then  sieve out the bits before serving.

Tesco's own vodka has been TRANSFORMED

The photo above shows the bottle 24 hours later- it's nearly ready to drink, Here you can see a little sediment at the bottom, but this had disappeared by the 48 hour mark.

So we'll be racking these up as shots tomorrow night - we'll let you know how it tastes! We'll be serving our guests some food too, so we're not irresponsible hosts! Hope you all have a lovely New Year's Eve! xox