Spiked Root Beer Float

Spiked Root Beer Float.  I mean come on!  Who had a root beer float as a kid?  Show of hands.

This cocktail right here kicks the old classic drink up a notch.  All you have to do is add whipped cream vodka.  Huh, who knew?

Did you know that today, August 6th is National Root Beer Day?

What?

Yup, so that means......there NEEDS to be a spiked version of this timeless drink!

Am I right?

I do enjoy kicking up classic drinks we enjoyed as children up a notch or two!  I've done it twice so far in my Surely Not Temple and in my Mr. Robert Roy (Roy Rogers grown up name).

Now I will admit. 

Are you sitting down?

I was never a HUGE fan of root beer floats.  Don't hate me!

I dunno........something when that ice cream meets the root beer.  It was never my favorite.

Now my gramps used to be asked to make them a lot.  I guess he had the ability to make a good one?  Not sure.  I would get mine.....and then quickly eat all of the ice cream out of it and then very....slowly.....drink the root beer.......or maybe I would dump it?  Can't quite remember.

Anyways, I figured if I was to add ALCOHOL to it, I might just like it a bit better.

WINNER!!   

This cocktail is pretty darn easy to make.

Well although technically there are 2 different ways people make them.  It's kind of like the toilet paper debate.  Does the end of the toilet paper go over or under the roll.  Correct answer is over.  

Yup, I'm team over!!

But which side am I on in the root beer float debate?

I'm a root beer first kind of gal!

Root beer and whipped cream vodka go in first.

Ice cream second.

Once you've got that all together all you need to do next is put on the toppings!

Whipped cream for sure.....but why stop there?  Add some more toppings that you like!  Sprinkles, marshmallows, chocolate chips, whatever suits your fancy!

There you have it!  A Spiked Root Beer Float!

Now you can enjoy a childhood classic drink a whole new way!

Cheers to kicking things up a notch or two!

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Spiked Root Beer Float

ingredients:

• 1 12 ounce can of root beer
• 1 1/2 ounces whipped cream vodka
• 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
• whipped cream

instructions:

1. Pour root beer into a large glass.
2. Pour in vodka and stir.
3. Next scoop in the vanilla ice cream.
4. Top with whipped cream.

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I hope you enjoyed this new recipe as much as I enjoyed creating it!

3 Hollow Chocolate Bunny Filled Cocktail Recipes For Easter

Don't you just love those adorable hollow chocolate bunnies that come out around Easter?  That was the one thing I ALWAYS looked forward to when Easter was approaching.

Now that you're an adult, you ever wish there was a little more to those bunnies?  Like alcohol?  

Believe it or not we only have 3 days left until Easter.

Anyone else think it's kind of funny that Easter and April Fools Day are the same day this year?

HAVE YOU SEEN THE MEMES??

You know like the ones where they remove the little chocolate eggs from the foil and wrap grapes in the foil instead?

OH, what about the one where they make "cake pops" out of brussel sprouts?  OMG!

We are hosting Easter this year and I am DYING to do something like that!  I know me........I totally won't do it, but the idea of wanting to cracks me up!

What's on the menu for Easter?

We're serving ham, mashed potatoes, creamed corn & brussel sprouts (hee hee).  We also have family bringing fresh sourdough bread, cauliflower and for dessert FLAN!!  

My Mother-in-law makes the BEST flan ever and I'm soooo excited that she's going to be making and bringing it on Sunday!!

Back to these little guys.

Did you know that they come in white chocolate and oreo cookies and cream?  WHAT?!?!  How fantastic is that!

I must admit, when I had to cut off their ears, I felt sad for them.......but then remembered that I'll be putting alcohol in them and then that feeling went away.

OFF WITH YOUR EARS!!

I've got to say, the line up of alcohol I had set out to make these three different recipes looked quite delicious....and quite a bit like I've got a problem, haha.  I was thinking, what if someone walked into my backyard while I had all of these bottles lined up....in the morning.

I got over it and mixed, shaked and poured my cocktails into these little guys.  

Although I do always wonder........what exactly they're looking at!

Here's a tip: Make sure your bunnies DON'T have any holes before pouring liquid into them.

First off was my chocolate bunny  I call this one:

Spicy Chocolate Banana Bunny

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Spicey Chocolate Banana Bunny

ingredients:

• 1 ounce chocolate whipped vodka
• 1/4 ounce Rum Chata
• 3/4 ounce banana liqueur
• 1/4 ounce Godiva chocolate liqueur

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients.
2. Shake and strain into a chocolate hollow bunny.

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My next bunny I used was the white chocolate bunny.  I call this one:

Buttered Bunny

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Buttered Bunny

ingredients:

• 1/2 ounce Rum Chata
• 1/2 ounce vanilla vodka
• 1/2 ounce banana liqueur
• 1/2 ounce butterscotch schnapps

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients.
2. Shake and strain into a white chocolate hollow bunny.

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The last one I used was the Oreo cookies and cream bunny.  I call this one:

Muddy Bunny

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Muddy Bunny

ingredients:

• 1/2 ounce whipped cream vodka
• 1/2 ounce Kahlua
• 1/2 ounce Baileys
• 1/2 ounce whipping cream

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients.
2. Shake and strain into an Oreo cookies and cream hollow bunny.

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There they are!  3 Hollow Chocolate Bunny Filled Cocktail Recipes For Easter!

I will admit these little guys hold a lot more liquid inside of them then I would have thought!  Which in my book is a win-win!

One more thing.  Did you notice?  Did you notice that the chocolate bunny that I ended up with was not the same one I started with?

Yea it was a hot day and I turned around to fill him up and....

Good thing I bought extras!!

I hope you have a wonderful Easter filled with family, friends and of course COCKTAILS!!

TMNT Michelangelo

TMNT

Michelangelo

With Alice through the looking glass coming out, we FINALLY saw Alice in Wonderland last night!  Another actor we love is Johnny Depp.  

We love him in all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and more.  He plays the oddest characters and we totally dig him.

Next on our list to watch is the TMNT movie so that we'll be caught up when it's time to watch TMNT2!  

That brings me to today's cocktail.  

Today I move onto my favorite turtle of them all, Michelangelo.  

Is it because of the mutual love we have for pizza?  Is it his over use of Cowabunga, Dude!  Is it because of his simply happy, fun loving nature?  Yes....all of the above!  I think he'd be someone fun to hang out with and have some beers, shots or cocktails with for sure.

Michelangelo is a bubbly, funny, comical dude.  

Knowing that I decided to use orange soda to capture his bubbly personality as main ingredient.  

Adding some orange whipped vodka and whipped cream vodka, this cocktail will have you surfing down the sewers in no time!

Don't forget to check out my other turtle cocktails: TMNT Raphael, TMNT Leonardo, TMNT Donatello as well as my Ninja Turtle cocktail and Hockey Stick.

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a TMNT Michelangelo:

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TMNT Michelangelo

by May-30-2016

Ingredients

• 1 ounce orange whipped vodka
• 1 ounce whipped cream vodka
• 4 ounces orange soda
• whipped cream

Instructions

In a shaker add ice and all of the ingredients above. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Top with whipped cream and enjoy!

Now we have 2 turtles down, 2 to go, plus Casey Jones!  That's shell-tastic!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Whipped Coco Mango

Whipped Coco Mango

It's Tuesday!  

Holy Moly what a weekend we had!  

Saturday was out oldest daughters 7th birthday, yes she was born on a Friday The 13th!!  

Which I personally think is pretty darn cool.  

We decided that since it was her actual birthday, we would do both her friend and family party on the same day!  It turned out to be a beautiful day!  So beautiful in fact that for her friend part in the afternoon I wore shorts, a tank top and flip flops.........yes it was THAT nice......in February!  

Friend party was a success and then we had a slight break until the family party, which was also a success.  She had fun from the minute she woke up until the minute she went to sleep.  

Our other little princess had a blast at her older sister's party.....and then at 4:30 in the morning I heard the call that you don't want to hear at 4:30 in the morning.  

"Mom!!  I threw up!!"  

OH NO!!  

Poor thing was sick all Sunday and most of Monday.  We finally saw the outside world today which I think was good for both of us.

With such an adventurous weekend, I decided that I needed to make myself a cocktail today.  

I still had a Mango Kerns in the fridge so I thought I'd do a quick search for a cocktail online.  
I found a couple, tweeked them a bit and made this one.  

My only complaint is that I wish I would have used Mango puree instead of the Kerns.  

I tasted the cocktail and thought, "It's OK".  

I then tasted the Kerns Mango on it's own and thought "It's OK".  

That's why I didn't love love this cocktail........lesson learned.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Whipped Coco Mango:

• 2 ounces coconut rum
• 1/2 ounce whipped vodka
• 2 ounces mango nectar
• 1/2 ounce peach schnapps

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a martini glass.

Here's to our daughter's 7th birthday and to our other daughters returning health!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Santa's Kiss

Santa's Kiss

I am completely convinced that we lost 3 months this year.  

They didn't happen.....they could not have happened, because Christmas can NOT be in 3 days.  It just can't.......can it?

Once Halloween hit this house it feels like the hands of time went 3x's faster then normal, skipping every other hour.  

Somehow Thanksgiving was here and gone and now Christmas is about to do the same thing.  I'm embarrassed to say.....this is my first Christmas cocktail of the season.

Knowing this was my first (and hopefully not only), I knew I needed to make it AMAZING!  

Mission accomplished!  

I had a good friend over and we were talking cocktails (surprising, I know).  She mentioned lemon drop, I said I have a recipe for that (another surprise, right?).  We wanted to create something with a little bit more then a regular lemon drop.  I said Chambord, she said X-Rated Fusion and then this beauty was born!

You are going to love it!  

It tastes so delicious.  

The lemon juice, Chambord and X-Rated Fusion go beautifully together it's almost a crime!  

I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season.  Let me know if you try any new cocktails over the holidays.  Make sure you get the recipes so I can try them too!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Santa's Kiss:

• 2 ounces whipped vodka
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• 3/4 ounce Chambord
• 1/2 ounce X-Rated Fusion
• superfine sugar for rimming

Rim a martini glass with superfine sugar.  In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above, except the sugar.  Shake and strain into sugar rimmed martini glass.  Sit back and enjoy this amazing cocktail.

I hope you are able to spend time with your family and friends during the holiday season.  Be safe and happy!

The Cocktail Lady

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