Kool-Aid Pickles...sweet and sour goodness

Recently, I was researching different methods of pickling vegetables online when I came across something that sounded so ridiculous, I had to look. Kool-Aid pickles or "Koolickles" are basically cucumber dill pickles that are marinated in a kool-aid mixture. I made a batch of Fruit Punch last week, and fell in love. The flavor of the kool-aid is what you taste first, which really makes the pickle flavor dissapear. What the pickles deliver, however, is that classic dill pickle sourness/tartness. It is a perfect sweet/sour combination.

Here is what you will need to make them:

46 oz. jar of whole dill pickles (make sure they are classic dills, not the garlic or zesty flavored pickles).

2 packets of your favorite kool-aid flavor. I can't find Purple Saurus Rex, so I settled on Fruit Punch (the classic flavor offered in the Mississippi Delta region where these treats originated) and Orange (flavor pictured here).

1 cup of sugar

2 cups of water

What to do with the ingredients above:

1. Pour out and discard the "pickle juice" from the jar of pickles.

2. Remove pickles from the jar and slice them in half length-wise.

3. Move sliced pickles back to empty pickle jar.

4. In a separate container, mix the kool-aid, sugar and water until all sugar and kool-aid powder is dissolved.

5. Pour the kool-aid mixture into the jar of sliced pickles until the pickles are covered.

6. Put the lid on the jar, and place the pickles in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours to marinate.

Enjoy!