Isn’t that just what you always want to see when you come to a blog? Rainbow alcohol. Absolutely (pun intended)!
With New Year’s Eve coming up, everyone is looking for ideas for their party. One party I had in college was a “Taste the Rainbow” party. We infused vodka with each flavor of skittles and had everyone dress up in skittles colors. Everyone looked funny in their rainbow outfits and had a great time. The skittles vodka was a hit too. When I was thinking of things that would make party favors I thought of mini bottles of alcohol. That seemed boring so then my boyfriend thought of mini bottles of skittles vodka! Brilliant!
Skittles vodka tastes fruity and delicious, but it’s very strong so be careful. You can mix this alcohol with fruity juices, sprite, or even ginger ale. It also tastes good just by itself. Have fun with this, but remember to be responsible too. Happy New Year’s everyone!
UPDATE THAT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD: Mix the orange skittles vodka with cranberry juice. It’s magical. And when you’re done with that, mix the yellow skittles vodka with lime margarita mix. Delicious. Ok, continue with the normal post.
Also, I always wondered what the bottles of Absolut say on them. They have a novel written right on the label. In case you were curious too, the bottles read, “This superb vodka was distilled from grain grown in the rich fields of southern Sweden. It has been produced at the famous old distilleries near Ahus in accordance with more than 400 years of Swedish tradition. Vodka has been sold under the name Absolut since 1879.” History of Absolut on the label. There you go.
Recipe:
Ingredients and Equipment:
1 lb bag of skittles
30 mini bottles of vodka
Coffee Filters
5 empty containers with lids (water bottles, tupperware, I used cups with plastic wrap on top)
Funnel (or crazy good pouring skills)
Prep time: 45 minutes
Inactive time: 1 day
Cooking Instructions:
Separate all the skittles by color. Pour 6 of the mini bottles of vodka into one of the empty containers. Save the mini bottles Add 120-150 red skittles. Repeat this with all the colors. You should have 5 containers with skittles of different colors in vodka at the end. Stir each container. Cover each container and set aside for at least 24 hours or until the skittles are dissolved. Shaking or stirring occasionally helps.
Once dissolved, get out about 4 coffee filters and pour a portion of one color through the filters into an empty cup. Once the flow rate slows down, squeeze the liquid through like how your supposed to squeeze a toothpaste bottle (back to tip). If there is still white gelatin floating, filter again. Continue this until there is minimal gelatin floating in the vodka. If your friends are like mine, they won’t care about a little bit left. I found that the white gelatin stands out most in the green and purple so I filter these twice. Repeat this until you have filtered all of one color. Use the funnel or your pouring skills to pour the vodka back into the mini bottles. Repeat this for each color. Depending on how many filters you used and how many times you filtered, you may not end up with as many mini bottles full as you started. You can fill the mini bottles that are only part full using more vodka if you want or just have extra mini bottles for other uses. You should end up with about 5 or 6 bottles of each color. Use as party favors for New Year’s or any other adult party. Enjoy!
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This is such a great idea. I’m definitely gonna try it!
Thanks! It’s a lot of fun to do with friends.
My friend has been bugging me for awhile now, to make him Skittles vodka, and I never thought to of making it in the little nip-sized bottles. What a great idea!
Thanks! It’s basically the same as making big bottles, but I think it’s much cuter.
So cool – I love it! Going to try it for New Years!
Can you do it with things other than vodka? Like rum or white tequila!?
I never have, but I don’t see why not. Vodka usually doesn’t add much of it’s own taste to it so you really only taste the skittles. If you try it with other alcohol, let me know how it goes. I’d be interested to hear.
Can I please steal? I just made berry infused vodka last week and I’ve been hearing a lot about skittles vodka. I am so going to try this with the 200ml bottles though. Yours is just beautiful!!!!!
Steal away! Berry infused vodka sounds delicious!
Love it!
oh wow i love this! such a cute idea!
I have made Jolly Rancher vodka, quite a bit easier since there is no filtering involved. But WAY better color from the skittles!! I love the mini bottle idea too!
I thought about doing Starburst vodka, but I didn’t want to risk it coming out gross. The filtering is really lame, so I think I’ll try Jolly Ranchers next time. Great idea! Thanks for posting.
I LOVE this idea! Looks tasty!
Thanks!
This looks so Awesome!! I love Vodka and will definitely be trying this! Such an awesome idea…I will be sharing!!
Thanks! Vodka is definitely one of my favorite liquors (but which one isn’?).
FYI…. the white stuff that you filter out is NOT gelatin… it is wax from the skittles. Anyone who is vegetarian can still drink/make the Skittles vodka because there is NO gelatin in Skittles. Being vegetarian myself, I just wanted to clarify!
Cool! Thanks for the info!
I have a question, the more skittles that are added the drink would taste a lot more like skittles right? I know it seems like a dumb question but a friend and I are trying it and would like for it to come out darn there perfect the first time, being really fruity. Thanks.
They would be more flavorful, but it would also take FOREVER to filter all of the skittle white junk out. The ones that I made were very flavorful already and I used a little more skittles than usual. You can definitely try using more, but just remember that it will take more time for the skittles to dissolve and more time to filter the vodka.
Fun! We used to put jolly ranchers in vodka or in zimas or smirnoff coolers a long time ago.,.
This brought that memorie back! Lol
Oh this looks like great fun!!!!
I found you through Pinterest. This sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing!!
I was wondering where you got the mini bottles of Absolut vodka?
Most liquor stores will have little stands up front that have mini bottles in them. They usually have Absolut and a bunch of other types of alcohol (it’s great for sampling to see if you like a certain flavor or type of alcohol). I’d just go to the closest liquor store and ask where they keep the mini bottles if you don’t see them.
how big are the bottles of vodka? the only mini bottles we have in our store here are the 10 dollar ones :S they dont sell the 1 shot ones here
You can use bigger bottles. The ones I’ve shown in the pictures are the 1 shot bottles. But you can scale it to use bigger bottles. Maybe get a bottle for each flavor and then just keep them separate for a party.
This is great, thanks!
Question- could you do this in a half batch with only 15 mini bottles and half the amount of skittles? The absolut mini bottles are $3.29 each and I didn’t want to spend that much. Could it work with other vodka brands? Thanks!!
You can definitely do this with other brands of vodka! You can also do it in smaller batches. I actually only did it for a the bottles you see in the pictures because I didn’t need them for a party. If you didn’t want to make them party favors, you could also do a use fifths or handles and that would also save you some money.
I was wondering if this can be done with nerds? Even though it’ll take A LOT of nerds, lol!
Whoa. That would be so awesome! You should try it and report back with how it goes. What about warheads for some sour vodka? I’m going to have to try that this weekend.
I’m going to make a sour batch using sour starburst jelly jeans! 6 flavors there and one is sour blue raspberry!!
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I make my own Green Apple martinis using green apple hard candies (alot) and 151 Absolute. Let it sit shaking now and again for about 36 hours. Then toss in the freezer to keep on hand. Rim the glass with coarse sugar, mix with a Moutain Dew type dilutant. Be very careful as these go down very easily.
I love the bottle, where can I buy it?
The little bottles are just from a regular liquor store that sells minis. I don’t have the flavored vodka for sale anywhere, but it’s pretty simple if you want to make your own.
Making these for unique christmas gifts for all the big girls in the family. I’m using the 200 ml size bottles and they look so cute. Thanks for the idea and know how.
Did you use all 4 coffee filters at once to filter or just use 1 filter at a time? Thanks! Cute idea!!
Hey Norma! I just used one at a time. I ended up needing more filters because they’d get clogged with the gelatin.
Hey!! I love this idea, but was wondering is maybe a tea strainer or a really tightly woven colander would work for the filtering, or do you think the gelatin would still get through?
I think the gelatin would still get through, but it’s worth a shot. If you try it, you can post back here and let us know how it went!
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