Abstract: The apparatus for making a multi-layer plastic bottle with a handle for holding liquids and the like which includes molds enclosing a hollow parison of molten plastic which is at a blow molding temperature, pinching a portion of the hollow parison as the mold closes to form a hollow moil portion and neck portion, simultaneously pinching a portion of the hollow parison to form a hollow handle portion while leaving a portion of the parison to provide a passage from the moil portion to the handle portion and thereafter expanding the parison through the moil portion to form the container.