Ingredients

1 orange, peeled and cut into thin slices

1/4 cup Tequila

3 cups fresh orange juice

stemmed maraschino cherries (1 per pop)

1/4 cup grenadine

(makes 24 two-ounce ice cube pops or eight 6-ounce pops)

Preparation

  1. In a small bowl, combine orange slices and tequila, let sit for 10 minutes.

  2. In a pitcher, combine orange slices and orange juice.

  3. Put a cherry in each pop mold, fill molds 3/4 full w/orange juice mixture, freeze for 20 minutes until slushy.

  4. Remove from freezer, divide grenadine among molds, insert sticks, freeze 12 hours.

  5. Remove from freezer, let stand 5 minutes before mold removal.