Dirty Martini Stuffed Olives
I thought it would be fun to fill olives with vodka jello. I also thought it would probably be tedious and that you would need to eat like 8 olives to equal a shot of vodka, but that was all secondary to the first thought. It will be fun to fill olives with vodka jello! A super dirty martini stuffed into every olive!
Turned out, it wasn’t that tedious, and I think the number of olives to equal a shot is closer to 5! Sounds like a win win win situation to me.
There are two ways you can stuff your olives with a dirty martini
The first is more tedious and involves blue cheese. The second is easier, but you waste a bit of alcohol which might be a dealbreaker to some people. I will run through both methods here with photos, and as always, the detailed recipe is down below with a printable version!
Blue Cheese method
The main thing I was worried about here is that olives have a big hole on one end, and a small hole on the other. My solution to this was to use a little blue cheese as a spackle to fill up the small hole. Also blue cheese tastes good and is often inside martini olives. So why not? Get the biggest olives you can find, and put a little blue cheese inside. Stamp the blue cheese down into the olive to seal up the hole.
This definitely adds more time to the recipe but creates less wasted vodka, so it’s a toss up on how you want to make it and what you value more!
Then fill the olives with the vodka jello mixture. I used a squeeze bottle to control the liquid, but an eye dropper would be even better. Only one of these actually leaked, the rest of the dirty martini stuffed olives stayed perfect.
Fill Method – No blue cheese needed
You can also just fill the ramekin with the jello mixture. After it cools and solidifies, it’s easy to pop these olives out of the jello due to the oiliness of the olives. It’s like they were born with a non-stick finish!
As you can see, the olives pop right out, and you can clean off the excess jello easily with a paper towel.
Serving the dirty martini stuffed olives
After you clean all the olives, pop them into a serving bowl with some tooth picks. So good! I used castelvetrano olives for this. They are my favorite olives anyways, and they are nice and big and can hold a lot of jello inside. I suggest you find the biggest ones you can find at your store.
Twists on dirty martini stuffed olives
The dirty martini stuffed olives would also be great with gin, and/or a little vermouth added to the mix. Really just depends on how you like your martini!
If you love creative recipes with alcohol, check out my amaro shortbread cookies, or these bourbon molasses ribs! Or check out my full list of my favorite jello shots here!
Dirty Martini Stuffed Olives
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 packs unflavored gelatin (0.5 oz total)
- 1 1/2 cup vodka or gin
- 60 olives, pitted the largest you can find
- blue cheese if using
Instructions
- Mix the gelatin with the water and stir to combine. After about 3 minutes, put it in a pot over medium low heat. Allow it to melt and become liquid, but remove from heat before it boils.
- Stir the gelatin water mixture with the alcohol until combined. Transfer to a squeeze bottle if using the blue cheese method.
Blue cheese method
- Place a very small amount of blue cheese into the large hole of the olive. Use the back of a small spoon to push the blue cheese into the olive, blocking the small hole at the bottom of the olive.
- Place the olives into a few small ramekins so they are all standing up with the hole facing up.
- Put the jello mixture into a squeeze bottle or you could also use an eyedropper for this. Squeeze some of the mix into each olive to fill them up. Cover the ramekin and place into the fridge to cool for 4 hours.
fill method – no blue cheese
- Place all the olives in a ramekin so they are facing with the holes upward. Pour the jello mix in so it just covers the olives. Cover and chill in the fridge for 4 hours.
- Remove from the fridge and use a small spoon to pop the olives out from the jello and use a paper towel to clean off excess jello.
This recipe was fun to make. I ended up making a small pan of dense vodka jello. Once set I’ll cut them in to pieces that fit in the olives. Can’t wait to serve them on my charcuterie board.
How long will these keep? 60 Olives is a lot of martinis
If you consider that people will probably eat about 5, it’s not that many. 5 of these barely equals one full drink or shot. That being said, they are good for 5 or so days
Also, this recipe theoretically makes 60 but you might want to give up at one point since it is tedious
I think allowing a tiny layer of the jello vodka mix to set in the bowl of olives prior to filling will eliminate the the leaking and way less work then stuffing or filling the whole bowl.
That is a pretty good idea, but it also adds a bit of time and would require making two batches of jello right?
I’m adapting. Got olives from a food pantry so am using smaller olives than recommended. It’s a jar of mixed olives. I’ll have fewer than 60 so will probably have jello mix left over that can be put in smaller shot glasses. The party’s this Saturday and I’m eager to make unexpected goodies!