Recipe: Frozen Fruit and Berry Cocktail Ice Cubes

So if you’re like me and like sipping your cocktails instead of gulping (chugging?) them down, you often encounter Watery-Cocktail-Syndrome as your ice cubes melt and dilute your drink. And for us mere mortals who don’t have the equipment to make glass-shaped ice cubes (a la Weather Up), use this handy trick to keep your drinks cool, prevent dilution and create some visual interest! I promise, your guests will be impressed.

I’ve seen a lot of articles online about freezing a berry or fruit slice INTO an ice cube or freezing fruit juice into your ice cube tray, but honestly this is way, way easier and in my opinion, cuter looking. Side note, after MANY attempts, I realized how difficult it is to capture an object floating in a drink… so use your imagination peeps!

Pink Lemons, sliced up and ready to freeze for cocktail ‘ice cubes’

Frozen Fruit/Berry Cocktail-Ice-Cube-Garnish-Thingies (anybody who can think of a clever name gets a prize!)

Fruit (whatever strikes your fancy… preferably something in a bright color that accents your drink)
Ziploc bags

1. If you aren’t using berries, slice the fruit up – you can even vary the shapes to create more interest – slice, wedge, etc.
2. Put the fruit into Ziploc bags and freeze for a few hours, and as you’re pouring the cocktails just drop the fruit in each glass. Alternately, if you are using a glass pitcher, you can also add some of the fruit in the pitcher as well for visual continuity. Bonus, you’ll have some booze-soaked fruit at the end!

Some suggestions for fruit-drink combos:
– raspberries with mimosas or any bubbly
– kumquats with aperol spritz (a fabulous lighter twist on a negroni – try it!)
– blood orange with negronis
– pink lemon with gin + tonic
…the possibilities abound! Find the prettiest and most interesting looking fruit and freeze it up for your next cocktail!

I couldn’t resist, another picture of the beautiful Pink Lemon