Colored Balls - Free your inner creative self by putting in a touch of color to your balls of ice.
You may do this by placing a few drops of food coloring to the ice mold once the water filled mold has been in the fridge freezer for approximately an hour.
You can add a bit more food coloring if you want more vibrant colors.
Alternatively, if you're adding the ice balls to fruit juice, you can put juice into the molds instead of water and freeze.
By doing this you have colored AND flavored ice orbs! Just simply add an ice juice round into a glass, pour the fruit juice over and serve.
It's much less likely your juice would taste watery by doing this! Flower Balls - Aiming to add a touch of Zen into your cocktail? Create flower ice spheres! You can easily create these by popping the flower of your choice into the ice ball mold, snap the 2 mold pieces together and put distilled or filtered water into the mold up until the fill line and freeze.
The moment you release the ball from the mold you'll get a stunning ice ball with the flower frozen inside.
To achieve more visual clarity of the imbedded flower you can try adding filtered water and freeze from top to bottom.
You may do this by placing the filled ice ball molds in to a cooler.
Put water all around the molds and put the entire cooler into your freezer.
Naturally, you'll need a cooler small enough to fit in your freezer.
Once frozen, remove the cooler, chip away the ice surrounding the sides of the molds to release them and gradually unmold.
Done! Clearer ice balls allow the flower to show through much more.
Fruit And Herb Balls - This is accomplished in the exact same way as making flower balls but this time around, use fruit and/or herbs! Be imaginative and use your preferred colorful fruit that is in season for instance: strawberries, raspberries, lemon or lime wedges, slices of kiwi, or other types of colorful fruits or berries.
Incorporating your favorite herb to your fruit balls not only gives added flavor but looks stunning too! Glam Balls - Who knew ice could be so attractive? Particularly when it's very easy to do? Simply freeze your ice round as normal, put it in a wide rim glass, put your preferred beverage or cocktail over it and add some edible silver or gold flakes over the ice.
It would be even better if you could find edible gold or silver leaves to use instead.
Multi Purpose Balls - Who says ice balls are made for beverages alone? There are a great many ways you can use your stunning ice orbs.
For instance, you could use it for helping keep things cool.
Put a number of frozen balls into a cooler for your picnic and you'll be sure all things in there will remain cool all day.
A further great use for them is for winter decorations.
Create some frozen colored balls, you can use tap water this time, then afterwards line them up along your driveway on top of the snow.
For parties, you can even stack some clear or colored ice balls on a beautiful platter or bowl.
They should maintain their shape up until the celebration ends particularly during the winter season! You can also mix them up with crushed ice and, with the correct lighting, you'll get a spectacular display of ice on your buffet table.
Why not fill an ice bucket with ice balls and place your bottle of wine or champagne in it to stay cooled for longer? The sky's the limit when your creative juices get going so celebrate with your friends or family.
Red berry juice balls for Christmas cocktails or orange ice spheres for your Halloween punch bowl for example.
Enjoy!