Blue Martini Ice Pops

This is dedicated to a great guy on this site named Martini Guy! Because of the alcohol amount in the pops they will not freeze to rock solid but they will freeze enough to serve as ice pops, you might also want to consider serving this as a slushy in a fancy glass. Fruity gins are best for this recipe. If you are making these into ice pops you will need 5 ice pop molds to hold about 1/3 cup each and 5 wooden popsicle sticks.

• Ready In: 20 mins
• Yields: 5 ice pops

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups water
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 lemon, zest of
• 3  tablespoons  gin
• 2  tablespoons dry vermouth
• 1  tablespoon Curacao

Directions

1. In a saucepan simmer water, sugar and lemon zest until sugar is dissolved.
2. Cool the syrup, then stir in gin, vermouth and Curacao; discard the lemon zest.
3. Pour into molds and freeze until the mixture is slushy.
4. Insert the sticks, then return to freezer.