This recipe is adapted from Bar Nineteen 12 in the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The bar uses half-sphere silicone molds, but you can use any half- ounce molds.
To make simple syrup, combine equal parts sugar and water in a saucepan, and stir over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Gelatin sheets are available at restaurant and baking supply stores. You can substitute 3 1/2 (1/4-ounce) packets of gelatin powder for the gelatin sheets.
Gently sprinkle the gelatin powder into the vodka and simple syrup to rehydrate. Makes about 35 (half-ounce) cocktails.
Ingredients
10 1/2 ounces Stoli (Stolichnaya) Blueberry vodka
2 ounces simple syrup
14 sheets of gelatin
About 35 fresh blueberries
Directions
Off heat, combine vodka and simple syrup in a small saucepan.
Add the gelatin sheets one at a time to vodka mixture, breaking up sheets if necessary so that they can be completely submerged.
Allow gelatin to sit in vodka mixture until it is soft and pliable, 5-10 minutes.
When gelatin is soft, heat saucepan over low heat, stirring, until gelatin is dissolved and incorporated into vodka mixture, about 10 minutes. Remove pan from heat.
Check contents of pan; if there are any flecks of gelatin that have not dissolved, strain the mixture to remove any solid particles. Place a blueberry in the bottom of each individual cocktail mold, and carefully pour vodka mixture into each mold. Refrigerate molds until set, preferably overnight. These cocktails will keep, refrigerated, for as long as two days.
