{"id":172830,"date":"2025-06-05T23:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/slushy-paper-plane\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T23:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:43:42","slug":"slushy-paper-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/slushy-paper-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"slushy paper plane"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A few years ago, Alex and I started batching cocktails and keeping them in the freezer. Batching may sound fancy and professional but at most we were participating in rudimentary math (\u201cone ounce? nah, one cup!\u201d) and advanced laziness (ahem, preparedness). Having cocktails ready to go and super, super cold so that they won\u2019t immediately water themselves down by melting ice, was a win. And, as the habit has continued, it\u2019s always fun when a friend stops by and you remember you already have perfect manhattans<\/a> ready to go, as if you were trying to medal in the impromptu hosting olympics.<\/p>\n

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Most freezer-batched cocktails are straightforward: lukewarm going in, chilled coming out. But earlier this year we made paper planes<\/a>, poured them into a jar in the freezer for later, got too tired to enjoy them (adulthood!) and came back two days later to remember that (science lesson incoming, cover your ears!) that lower-proof cocktails alcohol actually, uh, freeze when frozen<\/em>. Alcohol, as we probably learned a long time ago, has a lower freezing point than water, which is why vodka kept in your freezer (aka you\u2019re my Russian in-laws) is pourable but paper planes, which contain both lemon juice and lower-proof aperol along with higher-proof amaro and bourbon \u2014 turn out to get suspended in a perfect half-frozen state we call slush. <\/p>\n

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But I honestly feel like \u201cslush\u201d undersells them. Here is a thing I\u2019ve learned trying to write frozen cocktails recipes over the years: It\u2019s tricky to get the texture just right in a blender. Too much liquid, or liquid that\u2019s not arctic to begin with, everything liquefies. Not enough liquid, nothing blends. Ice that\u2019s too chunky never homogenizes; ice that\u2019s too small melts. Yet these slushy paper planes are the texture I wish\/dream all blender cocktails were, with no blender required: thick but pourable with the most delightful crunches of thin ice flakes everywhere. It\u2019s gorgeous (thank you, Aperol, for the orange glow), balanced (the bourbon smooths it, the amaro harmonizes it, the lemon sharpens it), and feels like a popsicle in a glass and you did nothing, nothing but pouring ingredients into a jar and forgetting about them for a day to make it happen. We\u2019re going to win at summer this year, and it starts with this.<\/p>\n

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