Fairy Nectar and Decorated Fairy Glasses

Fairy Nectar in Decorated Glasses

You will need:

ice cube tray'
berries, preferably fresh
colored sugar
straws
silk flowers
paper puncher
2 bowls
orange juice, preferably no pulp
cherry or cranberry juices

1. Place fruit into an ice cube tray. Fill with water and freeze.

* As you can see from the photo the ice cubes are a bit pink colored. Iused frozen berries because the store was out of fresh strawberriesand the fresh blueberries, etc. were outrageously priced (this was inNovember in Colorado). I think the water melted the berries and thejuice colored the water. So, if you use frozen berries, make surethey are thawed and rinsed.

2. Decorate your glasses with “fairy dust”.Pour sugar into one bowl and oj into the other. Lay outpaper towels. Dip the rim of each glass into the orange juice,next dip the glass into the colored sugar. The sugar dries really hard, reminds me of those rock candy lolipops.

*I learned that when you put the glasses the right way up to dry, the juiceruns down the side of the glass. To avoid that, place them gently upside down until dry.

3. Add the ice cubes, pour in orange juice to fill about half way full.

* Now this is why is would use no pulp orange juice, the pulp stuck to my ice cubes,didn't look as good as it could!

4. Fill up the rest of the glass with the cherry or cranberry juice,(pour slowly so you can see the swirl of the lighter red juice swirl into the orange juice) it's makes a pretty good effect.

5. Decorate straws by taking the center out of silk flowers. punching them with a round paper puncherand threading them over the top of the straw. You can do as many flowers as you like, they really look pretty.